Who are you trying to impress with your deadlines? archive.ph

“There are companies where those deadlines are set in stone, and a missed deadline is next to fire. That's when the problem starts.”

Operations and Internal Communication Strategies For Effective CEOs archive.ph

After insisting on the importance of context and narratives, the author provide an interesting template (good for inspiration) of ritual and recurring internal communication devices.

If You're So Successful, Why Are You Still Working 70 Hours a Week? archive.ph

“Our tendency to overwork and burn out is framed by a complex combination of factors involving our profession, our organization, and ourselves. At the heart of it is insecurity.”

Dear Manager, You're Holding Too Many Meetings archive.ph

“Employee productivity was 71% higher when meetings were reduced by 40%. This is largely because employees felt more empowered and autonomous. Rather than a schedule being the boss, they owned their to-do lists and held themselves accountable.”

What do executives do, anyway? apenwarr.ca

Paraphrasing Andy Grove's book, High Output Management, “the job of an executive is: to define and enforce culture and values for their whole organization, and to ratify good decisions.” The article also details the failures modes of a CEO: forcing his own decisions downstream…

Meeting everyone on a new team annashipman.co.uk

Right after inheriting a position at the top of an organization of 50 engineers, the author bootstrapped the relationship with that big team by meeting everyone in 30 minutes 1:1s. It was a huge time investment, and despite fears of being boring, it allows for recognizing…

BLUF: The Military Standard That Can Make Your Writing More Powerful animalz.co

“BLUF is a military communications acronym—it stands for “bottom line up front”—that's designed to enforce speed and clarity in reports and emails.”

How I operated as a Staff engineer at Heroku amyunger.com

A great window into the somewhat nebulous title of Staff Engineer, also called Principal Engineer or Software Architect at times. I.e. a role in which you are a technical expert, but know how to solve non-obvious engineering issues, most of the time because they are rooted in…

The Framing of the Developer amazingcto.com

Default framing is around the backlog, which leads to an asymmetry in which failure is blamed on lacks of developer performance, and success is celebrated as the full realization of the PM's vision. But “technology is the bank that gave credit”, and technical debt should be…

There Are No Bugs, Just TODOs almad.blog

Issue trackers needs to materialize ownership, queue position, state, task breakdown and aggressive closing. Priority, ticket type, software version, severity and long-life tickets are anti-patterns.

It's time to start writing alexnixon.github.io

On “Jeff Bezos's dotcom-era policy of banning PowerPoint within Amazon”, and how “this is neither about powerpoint nor about reading - it's about thinking.”

source accu.org

) - This quote is from a review of Superdistribution - Objects as Property on the Electronic Frontier, in which the creator of Objective-C was advocating in the 90's for a new economic framework that rewards creation of components in proportion to their use. But software…

GitLab's Guide to All-Remote about.gitlab.com

“GitLab is the world's largest all-remote company”. Here is what it means and how it works.

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Year Here yearhere.org

One year social enterprise fellowship to build an organization based in London.

WorldShapers worldshapers.net

An abundance of resources related to social entrepreneurship education.

The Schwab Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship weforum.org

Content about the foundation's activities and opportunities.

VUB Chair Social Entrepreneurship vubsocialentrepreneurship.com

Social Entrepreneurship usasbe.org

Focused on social entrepreneurship education.

Year Here twitter.com

The Audacious Project twitter.com

Tech Jobs for Good twitter.com

Posts about tech jobs with social impact.

senco twitter.com

Social Good News twitter.com

Ken Banks twitter.com

Founder of Kiwanja.

enactus twitter.com

Echoing Green twitter.com

Centre for Social Innovation Toronto twitter.com

A coworking space, community, and launchpad for people who are changing the world.

Social Enterprise Alliance twitter.com

Pioneers Post twitter.com

Impact Boom twitter.com

HBS SocialEnterprise twitter.com

Ashoka twitter.com

Acumen twitter.com

The Tech Matters Podcast techmatters.org

Talking about social enterprise structure and interviewing folks running them. Hosted by social entreprenur and engineer Jim Fruchterman.

Journal of Social Entrepreneurship tandfonline.com

The academic journal for the topic.

Centre for Social Impact Swinburne swinburne.edu.au

The Straits Times straitstimes.com

Singapore based newspaper with articles about social enterprise.

social enterprise ssir.org

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MIT Solve's Global Challenges Program solve.mit.edu

Nine month program with funding available. Geared toward specific themes.

SocialVentures socialventurescbus.com

Ohio nonprofit to advocate for, develop, and fund businesses that solve social problems.

Harvard Social Enterprise Conference socialenterpriseconference.org

Student run annual social enterprise conference.

SEA Chapters socialenterprise.us

Groups all over US focused on social enterprises.

Social Enterprise Alliance socialenterprise.us

US social enterprise advocates.

Evolution of the social enterprise industry socialent.org

by the Institute for Social Entrepreneurs

Social Bearing socialbearing.com

Useful to determine how popular/active any Twitter account is.

Skoll World Forum skoll.org

Large annual conference for Skull Foundation.

Social Enterprise Summit ses.org.hk

Annual social enterprise conference based in Hong Kong.

senco (social enterprise network of central ontario) senco.io

Canada group promoting social enterprises.

Seaworthy Collective seaworthycollective.com

Miami-based BlueTech entrepreneur support organization.