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argets the human side matters too bosses should practice some degree of self disclosure and let themselves be vulnerable that builds trust and healthy working relationships people should be encouraged to admit mistakes to change their minds and to constantly iterate towards better bosses shouldn t pretend to have all the answers they should be receptive and open to the ideas of others regardless of their position in the formal hierarchy transparency is generally good if people don t know what you re thinking they make up stuff that s way worse than reality those are good messages they helped me think in a more explicit way about the practice of leadership and gave me permission to be the kind of boss i d like to think i d have been anyway but once you poke at them a little it s clear they re built on weird assumptions i was a journalist in broadcast media a totally non command and control industry i d never even had a command and control boss roughly 50 of the people in senior roles in my organization were women and women bosses are widely understood to be more inclusive and communicative than male ones my then organization was 85 unionized and the unions were pretty strong when management wanted to exert its will our most useful tools were influence and persuasion so why were our coaches and trainers putting so much energy into guiding us away from being autocratic jerks eventually i concluded that the leadership development industry built as it is on decades of studies and analysis and practice probably generally has a bias to lag behind reality meaning it s shaped not so much by what s actually happening now or might happen tomorrow but by past experience and therefore it implicitly reflexively assumes an old school boss a guy maybe in his fifties who s smoking a cigar and barking out orders the trouble is that while that may have been the typical boss 50 years ago with each passing day it s less and less our reality we just don t work in command and control environments as much as we used to and to the extent that leadership development is designed to fix the problems of autocratic jerks it is limiting its ability to be useful for everybody else i live and work in the bay area in media and tech everybody i know is experimenting with organizational design and leadership style whether they d say it explicitly or not people are trying to figure out how flat their orgs can reasonably be how to devolve power how to maximize cohesion and buy in and organizational agility gruff shouty boss is just not our failure mode here s the kind of thing people i know talk about how to in decision making balance inclusivity against efficiency and speed how to balance an individual contributor s sense of personal agency against the organization s need for everyone to row or bail the boat together how to maintain leadership accountability while fostering broad ownership and responsibility throughout the organization how to have leadership be accessible to all levels of the organization without drowning the execs or undermining middle management how to create a strong shared work culture without accidentally turning into a monoculture that doesn t tolerate people who don t fit how to in organizations that over value harmony ensure disagreements are openly expressed and worked through how to create an environment that enables the effectiveness of creative talented people who have depression add adhd and or asperger s how to equip leaders from underrepresented groups to manage their imposter syndrome and to successfully handle subtle biases among their co workers how to lead in a period of experimentation when the boss can t pretend to have all the answers these are the kinds of questions that leaders in the tech sector are facing today and as software eats the world they ll increasingly be faced by leaders in every sector there are people working on figuring out this stuff for example i like michael lopp and venkatesh rao and joel spolsky and i think boot camps and foo type camps are useful too but i feel like in focusing on fixing the mistakes of the past the ld od industry itself is erasing rather than helping shape and define new and emergent forms of leadership that s a huge missed opportunity tags engineering executive leadership leadership leadership development management organizational development software development tech industry categories leadership seven awesome travel products for persnickety nerds april 28 2014 2 i travel a lot and i m kind of obsessive herewith therefore my very favourite travel products time tested and iterated upon over the past decade note yeah i am shaking my head as i press publish here i comfort myself with the knowledge that i am not alone lots of people are just as weirdly fussy about this stuff as i am nonetheless i reserve the right to come back and caveat stuff here if i end up being publicly shamed scottevest travel vest with many pockets omg i love my scottevest it has 17 internal zippered pockets including ones perfectly sized for passports and id cards plus built in channels for holding earbud cabling i carry in it anything and everthing that i might need for flying travel documents pens disinfecting wipes nasal sanitizer swabs purell eye drops a tiny flashlight lip balm various adapters and cables sudafed benadryl painkillers zinc lozenges tiny toothbrush and toothpaste a notebook mini kit for repairing things kleenex stain removal pen and immigration residency documents i wear it to and from the airport and leave it in my suitcase otherwise drawbacks none zero variants there are other versions of this vest out there like this tilley one or this from magellan s but i ve never tried them the built in cabling solution is unique to scottevest afaik and that alone would keep me with that company annoyingly women seem to be underserved in this category by everyone with nowhere near the amount of product variety that men get clear vinyl zippered bags from mmf industries i use these to collect together small things in my luggage e g power cables toiletries so they don t get lost these are great transparent washable including in a dishwasher and completely indestructible drawbacks none except i wish they came in additional sizes variants a lot of people recommend just using ziplocs but i find even the thicker freezer ones rip too easily mesh bags and translucent bags don t offer enough visibility into their contents and many offer zero protection against leakage this bag from the container store doesn t pack neatly and over time the brittle plastic creases and cracks this tom binh bag has fabric sides so isn t easily washable wipeable this translucent bag and this canvas bag from arsenal are super durable but neither is transparent and i found them a little bulky if i need something waterproof i use these clear bags from alosak but they re not as durable as the mmf one after a few trips they often tear under the seal tiny clear plastic flip top bottles from muji i have used a thousand variants of travel bottles jars tubes whatever and these are the best they re great for carrying small amounts of stuff like cleanser moisturizer and hair product they don t leak or drip squeezeable so you can get out all the contents translucent which means you can see when it s time to refill drawbacks mouth is slightly too narrow which means you need to use a pipette for non liquids or be extremely patient variants for smaller amounts or thicker products these wee containers from muji hold only 10g and are pretty much indestructible for larger capacity these nalgene bottles from the container store are durable and reasonably leak proof these tiny ziploc bags are great for collecting together and mildly protecting small quantities of dry items like sudafed adaptors usb sticks change buttons stickers or jewelery and this vitamins medication case is rugged and compact gotoobs are really popular but i found they leaked and they were an awkward shape for packing this set of stacking pill containers is also awkward for packing and breaks if you drop it this muji pill box is cheap feeling and flimsy these small nalgene jars annoy me by having lids larger than the part you fill with product and although these small round pill boxes from the container store are pretty good they re a hard plastic and do sometimes crack if dropped packing cubes from ebags frequent travellers are split on packing cubes some find them useful while others think they waste space and weight i like that they offer mild protection and keep my stuff organized and a couple of times i ve been grateful that they made repacking super easy after my luggage got rummaged through by airport security airport security people never actually open the cubes i don t know why i use them for clothes and non fragile equipment gear particularly if it s awkwardly shaped i pack clothes by outfit which is great especially for red eyes because i can pull out a single cube to change quickly at the hotel or airport drawbacks none variants i ve tried a number of variants but they all had drawbacks i colour code by type of content which means rick steves cubes and tumi cubes which only come in black won t work for me you can t colour code with ziplocs either plus they rip too easily i find the eagle creek cubes too heavy and the prominent branding bugs me travel folders cause wrinkles and are fiddly for repacking and they re best for people who are carrying multiples of things like button downs which i am not compression bags cause wrinkles and can be a hassle to repack they re not worth it unless you re super space constrained travel shoe bags really only fit flat shoes not heels or boots and are usually too bulky rigid to be useful i try to avoid carrying extra shoes but when i need to i just wrap them in soft bulky clothing and bury them in the centre of the suitcase portable battery pack from anker at 20000mah this is the highest capacity general use portable battery pack i know of and when i did the math in july 2013 it had the best charge weight ratio on amazon it charges my phone and tablets multiple times before needing to be plugged in i ve never yet fully drained it it lives in my suitcase i bring it with me on day trips and long flights when i won t have access to power and use it sometimes in hotels or public spaces when i can t easily access an outlet it s beautifully designed and built drawbacks too big and heavy to drag around every day supports many laptops but not mine variants this 13000mah charger from powergen is pretty good although i like anker s build quality form factor and aesthetics better i find the anker fits better in my bags than this boxier 12000mah charger from new trent plus i ve had multiple new trent products stop working for me after only a year or so this 4500mah charger from anker is light and small it s good as a backup for giving my phone a single charge and i carry it with me everywhere but i m not thrilled with the hideaway cable which seems fragile travel adapter from tripshell these are well built and durable with no attachments to lose i carry two or three in my suitcase and various charging kits drawbacks because they disappear against dark backdrops i ve left a few behind in hotel rooms and meeting rooms there s a dark red and a white version but they re not much better i would love if somebody made these in a fluorescent variants there s a kensington adapter that s practically identical to the tripshell the square all in one adapters always feel flimsy to me plus they are slightly bulkier adapters with multiple components are too fiddly and i lose the components four outlet power strip from monster i love this power strip it s super useful in hotels with limited or not very accessible outlets and i ve used it frequently on planes and in airports and event venues as well it s compact and durable has widely spaced outlets that let you plug in multiple adapters the plug is flat which means it fits into tight spaces and when you plug it in it lights up to show it s drawing charge drawbacks would be great if it had a swivel feature variants i ve used a bunch of variants but this is the best this belkin power strip works great at home but is too bulky for travel this usb wall charger from arctic offers similar functionality to the monster one but has multiple parts that can get lost and is an awkward fit in tight spaces this belkin travel charger offers three outlets plus usb plus surge protection but again the form factor limits its usefulness in tight spaces the same is true for this wall charger from anker which only supports usb tags adapter anker battery charger ebags hyper obsessive monster muji scottevest travel tripshell categories travel uncategorized what s really wrong with nonprofits and how we can fix it october 20 2013 13 this post requires a number of caveats and acknowledgements they re at the bottom in 2008 i was interviewing a candidate for an engineering position at the wikimedia foundation and as we talked i found myself imagining what a terrific impression he would make on donors he s so shiny and cheerful and mission oriented i found myself thinking donors will love him as soon as i thought it i had the grace to be embarrassed and although we ended up hiring the guy we did it because he seemed like a talented engineer not because he was charming i was horrified at myself for a while afterwards anyway and the whole thing ended up being a bit of a turning point for me as well as a cautionary story i sometimes tell because that was the moment that crystalized for me what s actually wrong with nonprofits preface i ve always been irritated by people who assume nonprofitland is self evidently suckier than forprofitland i m particularly irritated by people who say that nonprofits should be more businesslike with businesslike as a kind of confused stand in for better that just seems dumb to me i feel like it s obvious that nonprofits function in a specific context including challenges unique to the sector and that solutions aimed at increasing our effectiveness needed to be designed to respond specifically to those actual real circumstances that s what this post is about my goal is to describe a serious problem and point to where i believe we re beginning to see solutions emerge here it is every nonprofit has two main jobs you need to do your core work and you need to make the money to pay for it in the for profit sector when you make better products you make more money if you make awesome socks you sell lots of socks paying attention to revenue makes sense in part because revenue functions as a signal for the overall effectiveness of the org if sales drop that s a signal your product may be starting to suck or that something else is wrong nonprofits also prioritize revenue but for most it doesn t actually serve as much of an indicator of overall effectiveness that s because donors rarely 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