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
Dave Brock — December 4, 2019 Follow @davidabrock I’m an unabashed fan of Shane Parrish and the Farnam Street Blog. I study everything they publish, listen to every podcast, read every article and book they reference. It is the single smartest site I have ever found, I encourage everyone to visit and learn on a … Continue reading How Performance Reviews Can Kill Organizational Culture
Kevin George — November 7, 2019 Follow @imkevin_monk With around 3.7 billion active email users across the globe, leveraging emails the right way can definitely help businesses reach new heights of success. In fact, email advertising spending has already reached a whopping 350 million U.S dollars in 2019. So, it wouldn’t be wrong to say … Continue reading Will Chatbots Kill Email Marketing?
Daniel Codella — May 29, 2019 Follow @mrcodella — May 29, 2019 As businesses continue to expand globally and distributed teams become the norm, collaboration has become essential to success. Managers and employees are spending 50% more time in collaborative activities. In response to these trends, organizations have been rushing to bring on as many … Continue reading Kill Your Inefficient Tools and Processes Before They Kill Your Company
Elizabeth Williams — January 28, 2019 Follow @bizmkter — January 28, 2019 Last time we looked at the five stages of employee survey grief. This is the part where the executive team grapples with the discomfort of learning that, despite all kinds of warm intent, the employees are really no more “engaged” than last year. … Continue reading Why You Need to Kill Your Annual Employee Survey
