What makes you diverse

As the new manager of a remote team, you have been tasked with the unique challenge of building a culture of trust, solidarity, teamwork, and cohesion during stressful, uncertain times. It’s a difficult job, but it’s not impossible—and these activities can help you create and strengthen the bonds of trust with everyone on your team. … [Read more...] about 5 fun ways to build trust with a remote team when you’re a new manager

Find ways to harness the creativity within every member of staff–not just those officially designated “creative” The company is currently exploring ways of releasing the latent creativity of its workforce. “Just this morning we had a session to discuss the culture of the business and where next. While people may have a particular production specialism, we encourage everyone to jump in together when it comes to generating new ideas. At the moment we’re considering one idea that came from someone in accounts–just a one-liner, but a great idea,” he adds. … [Read more...] about How To Grow While Staying Insanely Creative, The Aardman Way

The challenge will be ensuring that that ongoing evolution doesn’t lead to feature bloat. “Hopefully, I won’t let us get to a point where we have too much in one app,” Systrom muses. “I pride myself—and I know we pride ourselves—on making Instagram feel simple, direct, and to the point. But the second you start serving hundreds of millions of people, there are a lot of use cases that come that you didn’t have when you were serving 30 million people.” The company will need to be disciplined, he says, about editing out its mistakes. Already, it’s ditched Photo Maps, a little-used tool that plotted a user’s snapshots geographically. … [Read more...] about How Instagram Changed—Before It Had To

Culture-focused professionals The past year also brought renewed attention to the importance of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) roles within organizations. Chamberlain says there is an increasing demand for those professionals, especially chief diversity officers. “DEI has grown pretty dramatically in the last few years. Partly it’s because of social-political trends. But partly, it’s because there’s a growing awareness among executives, about the research about the business case for diversity and inclusion,” he says. “Today, there’s pretty clear academic work, showing companies make better decisions and enjoy better financial performance when they have more diverse voices.” … [Read more...] about These are some of the new jobs emerging in 2021 and beyond

“No matter how great we are on any particular thing, we’re always going to be trying to improve. We wanted to invite people to see a little bit about our journey, to be enthusiastic and inspired, but also to recognize that we are part of a larger system,” Myers says. “We talk about it a lot as a journey, and our hope is that people get inspired and want to take that journey with us, either in their own individual lives or in their company.” … [Read more...] about ‘We got a long way to go’: Netflix releases its first company inclusion report