The Web Designer Depot published an interesting post a few days ago called In Defense of The Jack of All Trades by Mindy Wagner. I found the post very interesting, because personally, I’ve being thinking about a generalist vs. specialist. I think the Rypple team is a great example of perfect generalists because our skills [...]
Rules for Managing Gen Y is a profile of Alexander Younger, the founder and president of Toronto-based marketing communications firm Design Lab, and Jason Blessing, group vice-president and general manager of the Taleo small and medium business segment. According to the article, Gen Ys want to get involved, get frequent feedback, see the results of [...]
It’s crucial for leaders to provide their people with feedback. Not only is it important in helping them improve, but feedback is a powerful motivational tool as well. Here is an excerpt from a great post I came across titled Using Feedback to Motivate Staff: Unfortunately, we do not seem to be able to fully [...]
The Harvard Business Publishing agrees with our belief in power of one thing. In the post To Change Effectively, Change Just One Thing, Peter Bregman describes how he lost 18 pounds in one and a half months. He did it by focusing on cutting down one area of consumption. …I asked myself: what’s the one [...]
It goes without saying that learning, in all its many forms, is the key to staying ahead. Learning what’s working, what’s not, how to fix things, and so on. In a classic HBR article from 1994 titled “Good Communication that Blocks Learning“, Chris Argyris provides some ideas on how people within organizations can learn more [...]
Yesterday, our co-CEOs Daniel and David demoed the new version of Rypple at HR Tech. It was a great success! Thank you to everyone who was at the demo or gave great shout outs over Twitter. Stay tuned for the full details about our trip to HR Tech in upcoming posts. Over the past week [...]
