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Leadership
Leadership Books & Resources
Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility by Patty McCord: A different path for achieving a culture of high performance and profitability
A Leader's Legacy by James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner: Essays on Significance, Relationships, Aspirations and Courage
CTRL-SHIFT by Mike Bonifer & Jessie Shternshus: 50 original improv games to improve communication and creative problem-solving
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni: Lessons in overcoming common hurdles to build a cohesive, effective team
Is It My Inner Critic—Or Am I Just Being Realistic? Tips to help separate critical and realistic thoughts
Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live) by Eve Rodsky: A system to help divvy up domestic responsibilities and unpaid work
When your manager isn't supporting you, build a Voltron: How to get the support you need when your manager is less than helpful
Thou shalt not commit logical fallacies: Critical thinking resources to help you identify and call out dodgy logic
Radical Candor—The Surprising Secret to Being a Good Boss: Kim Scott’s management philosophy based on Caring Personally while Challenging Directly
5 Mindsets That Will Boost Your Organizational Culture: Your organizational mindsets determine business success. What your employees think is what your company will become.
People Ops & HR
Applicant Tracking Systems
Greenhouse: Applicant tracking system and recruiting software
Workable: ATS and recruiting marketing platform
Lever: Recruiting software, applicant tracking system and recruitment marketing tools
BambooHR: HR software for small- and medium-sized businesses
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) Resources
Playing Big: Practical Wisdom for Women Who Want to Speak Up, Create and Lead by Tara Mohr: Practical skills to voice and implement change
The Confidence Code for Girls! by Katty Kay & Claire Shipman: A formula to help build confidence in girls
Employers Try New Language to Lure Job Seekers: Appealing to a wider set of applicants, one startup’s pitch: ‘This role isn’t for everyone’
Why So Many Organizations Stay White: How race became embedded in our workplaces, and what organizations can do about it
The Day-to-Day Work of Diversity & Inclusion: Airbnb’s head of global diversity and belonging discusses diversity programs and culture change
How We Hire at Big Cartel: How Big Cartel manages an inclusive and productive hiring process
Why remote work is inclusion work: A distributed workforce can be the key to diversifying companies and supporting local economies
Apprenticeships
Sparkbox Apprenticeship Guide: An overview of Sparkbox’s apprenticeship program
Let’s Talk: Apprenticeships: Apprenticeship articles and resources by Sparkbox
#HypHarvest 2015 presents Rob Harr with Sparkbox: Rob Harr discusses why your business should have an apprentice program, and Sparkbox’s approach
Team Collaboration
Collaborative Workspaces & Team Wikis
Notion: Workspace for teams and individuals to write, plan, collaborate and get organized
Dropbox Paper: Workspace to create and edit without leaving Dropbox
Confluence: Team collaboration software from Atlassian
TeamDynamix: IT Service Management (ITSM) and Project Portfolio Management software for education, the public sector and healthcare
Google Sites: Free and easy way to create and share webpages
Whiteboards & collaborative sticky notes
Miro: Online collaborative whiteboarding
Stormboard: Shared sticky notes and whiteboards
Website Feedback, Personalization & Customer Support
Feedback
Punchli.st: A to-do list for websites
BugHerd: Feedback for websites
Personalization
Evergage: 1-to-1 personalization & customer data platform
RightMessage: Website personalization software
Customer support software
Business Development & Intelligence
Business Development
Which RFPs Should You Respond To?: 2Bobs podcast on RFP criteria
Customer relationship management (CRM)
Business Insights
Databox: Business analytics platform and KPI dashboards
Thermostat: Net Promoter Score (NPS) software and surveys
Podcast Production
Transistor: Podcast publishing platform
Me Only Louder: Podcast production by Marcus dePaula
Descript: platform to create podcasts, videos and transcripts
Asset Management
Cloudinary: Image and video upload, storage, optimization and CDN
DesignOps Articles
Understanding the role of design operations on your team: An overview of Design Ops and its benefits via InVision
DesignOps at Airbnb: How we manage effective design at scale
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