Misaligned messaging breaks trust fast. Dropbox shows how disciplined positioning scales. Here’s how to fix your internal signals. Zac Stucki on November 14, 2025 Many teams position around what sounds compelling instead of what’s true. It works for a moment — demos spike and early reactions look positive. However, the gap between the pitch … Continue reading The quiet positioning mistakes that kill growth
October 25, 2025 Why you should kill the standing one-on-one meeting
Steep tariffs could have a silver lining: They have the potential to end the current era of cheap, disposable clothing. BY Elizabeth Segran Step into Target, Walmart, or Old Navy and you’ll find a smorgasbord of $3 T-shirts, $12 dresses, and $20 sweaters. If you visit Temu, Shein, or Haul’s websites, you’ll find these items at … Continue reading Could Trump’s tariffs kill fast fashion?
AI Clickbait: How Google Intends To Kill It by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, March 6, 2024 Google has announced updates and changes to its spam policy designed to remove all clickbait from its search results. The March 2024 core and several spam updates, along with content system changes, have been incorporated into its overall … Continue reading AI Clickbait: How Google Intends To Kill It
By Judith Humphrey March 21, 2022 Good managers are rare. If you’re a manager, you may feel this is an unfair statement, but in today’s digital work world, team members need more support and more positivity from you than ever before. One way to improve your image and relationship with others is to … Continue reading 7 expressions that can kill employees’ trust in managers
Jessica Mehring May 10, 2021 Recently I’ve noticed a trend in emails coming from technology companies: big, heavily designed email headers. At first glance, you wouldn’t think this trend was a bad thing. After all, strong visual design can be captivating — and of course, who wouldn’t want their email to be captivating? But as … Continue reading How Great Design Can Kill an Email
Angela Hausman, PhD December 28, 2020 Did you know that poorly designed websites can kill your online performance and damage your reputation? Check out this 2020 award-winning web design for a French company. Note the clean lines, the dramatic images, and easy navigation that make this website both functional and visually appealing. In fact, a … Continue reading Poorly Designed Websites Can Kill Your Performance and Reputation
By Ian White August 18, 2020 2020 has inspired all of us to do some soul-searching. We’re asking ourselves big questions about what we value, how we want to spend our time, and where we want to be in life. As a result, people are making moves. My company is based in New York City, … Continue reading Location-based salaries will kill your startup’s culture
Syed Balkhi August 7, 2020 While many WordPress plugins have free versions, you can also find pirated copies of the pro or premium versions online. These pirated copies use a “nulled” license key to get you access to the plugin. It’s against most plugins’ terms of service, is illegal, and could put your site’s security … Continue reading How a Fake WordPress Plugin Can Kill Your Site
Ellen Mullarkey — May 22, 2020 Our global community has faced unprecedented stress over the last few months. Whether you transitioned to working from home, were met with an unforeseen furlough, or took on full-time childcare unexpectedly, it’s certainly been an adventure! I can’t stress this enough: we were already under too much pressure. According … Continue reading Don’t Let the Pressure Kill Your People
