Claude Silver had a great career. As senior vice president at VaynerMedia, she loved her team and had a great relationship with her boss, CEO Gary Vaynerchuk. There was just one problem: She wasn’t passionate about her work. “That voice came up loud, which was, ‘You really don’t care about marketing. You only care about these people,’” Claude explains. “I knew...
Posts by Lars Schmidt
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Back in 2017, SurveyMonkey asked employees to weigh in on where the company was falling short of its employee value proposition to be the company “Where the curious come to grow.” One surprising — even curious — answer emerged: The annual review process didn’t work for employees. “What we heard from our employees is this big annual cycle that’s backward-looking...
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Several years ago, as HubSpot began to scale, the company’s leadership focused on making sure its growth did not send its culture careening off the rails. The marketing software firm decided to embrace an unusual approach. “[We thought] about our culture truly as a product,” explains Katie Burke, chief people officer at HubSpot. “How would I develop this if it...
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The year was 2010. I just landed a new job running recruiting and innovation at NPR. My past experience included ‘traditional’...
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Astronaut. Professional skateboarder. Talk show host. When you're growing up, you have dreams of what your future might hold. Those...
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It’s An Exciting Time To Be A Student We’re living smack dab in the middle of the golden age of education. I’m not referring to school...
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- Inspiring Stories