What 30 years of Stanford research tells us about company culture

Robert Sutton knows company culture. Throughout his 30-year career as professor Professor of Management Science at the Stanford Engineering School, he’s interviewed business leaders and studied the ins and outs of corporate culture like few others. His books include Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best…. and Survive the Worst, The Asshole Survival Guide, and he co-authored Scaling Up Excellence with Huggy Rao. […]

Right-sizing and the teeter-totter: how one CEO built a culture of balance

[cta]Ryan Vanni is the CEO of Bukwild, an award-winning digital ad agency in Sacramento. He started his company at just 21 and didn’t have an understanding of the trends in business or what company culture really was. He’s quick to admit he had no idea what he was doing for most of the time. Since launching in 2001, they’ve worked […]

Who should be at the table? Tips for selecting your meeting attendees

[cta]Meetings are simply a group of people. So effective meetings hinge on having the right people at the table. Leave someone out, and you might not have the right perspectives to make an informed choice. Have too many folks in the room, and the meeting can become unfocused and a waste of time. How many […]

4 badass women who moved workplace culture forward

Throughout history, women have struggled to break the glass ceiling. From politics to medicine, women have made strides against societal pressures and pervasive prejudice. Many of those women are little known and rarely applauded for their successes. Today, we’re highlighting four women who set the stage for us all to live and work in a […]

Zapier CEO, Wade Foster, on building company culture remotely

Last year you announced a plan to pay people $10,000 to move away from the Bay Area, how’s that working? What’s been the effect on your company culture? Well, in the year leading up to that announcement we had 6,000 people apply for jobs at Zapier. Last year we had 20,000 applicants. But in terms of […]