Management How to Win as a First-Time Founder, a Drew Houston Manifesto Dropbox CEO Drew Houston shares his strategy for getting up to speed fast to succeed as a novice founder.
Management The Best Approach to the Worst Conversation: "You're Fired" Michael Lopp has headed up People Operations at both Palantir and Pinterest. Here, he explains how to fire people the right way.
Management My Management Lessons from Three Failed Startups, Google, Apple, Dropbox, and Twitter Kim Scott, veteran of Google, Apple, Dropbox and Twitter, shares what she's learned — especially the importance of giving a damn.
Design Stop Dancing Around Criticism and Put It to Use with These Tips from Airbnb's Head of Experience Design Katie Dill, Airbnb's Head of Experience Design, on how to critique your colleagues' work the right way to move things forward.
Management Hyper-Growth Done Right - Lessons From the Man Who Scaled Engineering at Dropbox and Facebook Aditya Agarwal, VP of Engineering at Dropbox, talks about how he was able to scale their engineering team while maintaining productivity.
Management Spark Creativity with These Tips from Pixar's President Ed Catmull, President of Pixar, has spent his career being creative. Now he's exploring how companies can proactively ignite creativity.
Design Spotify’s Design Lead on Why Side Projects Should Be Stupid If you take what you're doing too seriously, you're likely to squeeze the life out of it. Here's a guide to letting your projects stay stupid and fun.
Design How Designers Can Earn a Seat at the Table Phil King rose through the ranks to lead design at Flickr. His mission: To help more designers become leaders and advocate for their craft.
Product When It Comes to Market Leadership, Be the Gorilla There are three ways to dominate a market: product leadership, cost leadership or customer intimacy leadership. Here's how to achieve it.
Starting Up The 5 Early Mistakes That Almost Killed This Founder’s Startup — and How He Survived Ranker CEO Clark Benson readily admits that he made mistakes that almost destroyed the company. Here, he lists what not to do.
Management The 30 Best Pieces of Advice for Entrepreneurs in 2014 A comprehensive list of the top pieces of advice we heard in 2014 from people who are the very best at what they do.
Management Execute Like a Rookie, Lead Like a Multiplier Knowing too much can be dangerous and narrow your view. Leadership advisor Liz Wiseman offers tips for avoiding this trap.
