Imagine a world where employees, not just the Board of Directors, assign performance ratings to CEOs and determine if they need to be placed on a performance improvement plan. The 2025 edition of Blind's CEO performance review did exactly that. Following the precedent set by the anonymous professional network in 2023-24, when they first enabled … Continue reading Placing CEOs on a PIP
In today's business landscape, the pace of change isn't just fast—it's unprecedented. Generative AI has revolutionized business operations, creating opportunities and challenges that seemed like science fiction mere years ago. Meanwhile, geopolitical complexities—from fractured supply chains to escalating trade tensions—demand constant organizational pivots. This isn't simple technological and political disruption—it's a perfect storm of compounding … Continue reading Project Zero: Tackling the Hidden Costs of Accelerating Change
I am not someone who regularly peruses annual shareholder letters outside of that of my own organisation; but when my favourite podcasters mentioned Larry Fink’s 2024 Annual Chairman’s Letter, I had to go read it. Given how much valuable advice is tucked away in this single letter, I couldn’t help but wonder how many life … Continue reading Rethinking retirement
There is an uptick of articles on the internet talking about disillusionment with tech jobs, fall in engagement, when to quit your job and the hiring season kick-off. It isn’t just the internet. In a previous post, I mentioned how the year of digestion was leading to employees experiencing loss of autonomy, increased anxiety and … Continue reading How to re-engage with the job you have
One of the first pieces of advice I received when I started my career was – ‘your colleagues are not your friends’. As I sat through the section on workplace etiquette as a part of the campus to corporate program and was familiarized with the rules of harassment, I was left convinced that my colleagues … Continue reading The Friendship Paradox
We’re living in the midst of a perfect storm. With the bank bailouts, focus on optimization and tech layoffs, job security has gone out the window. Organizations are pulling employees back into the office, hard won work life balance is being put to test and all of this while we’re still re-evaluating our relationship with … Continue reading Part 1: Why are we really going back to the office?
We all have the image of the modern-day woman depicted as juggling a laptop, diapers, a spatula, washing machine, pets and more, staunchly entrenched in our minds. The evolving role of a people manager evokes a very similar image. At first it looks easy. They have an entire team rallying to complete a series of … Continue reading Lowering the tax on the modern-day people manager
Like almost every blog post these days, I have been wanting to write about the topic for a while now. I spent almost a week trying to figure how I felt about the term and what I wanted to say. In between moments of being unable to decide which side I was going with and … Continue reading Quiet Quitting: New Term on the Block
We’ve been discussing the question of ‘where work gets done’ for over two years now. Over this period, I’ve come across at least a dozen brilliant answers, yet they’ve all come apart at the time of implementation. They either get critically examined and shut down early in the process or are so far diluted by … Continue reading Velocity via modularity
Earlier this year, I came across the term ‘trauma-informed workplace’ in a Fast Company article while scouting for potential trends for 2022. I realized I was probably the last one to have been acquainted with this term as it isn’t new. A quick internet search will reveal that this has been a topic of discussion … Continue reading Trauma informed workspace
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