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What can the 2000 dot-com crash teach us about the 2022 tech downturn?

TechCrunch

In our conversation, Barber spoke about how founders can better align with investors and employees while managing uncertainty, the dangers of growing too quickly, and the economic, social and emotional impacts created when so many companies close their doors at once. When my company’s softball team played against Yahoo!

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What We Learnt From Target’s Diversity And Inclusion Strategy

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Initiative: Improve the R&D team’s cultural competence and decision-making to guarantee that the team can better leverage existing team diversity and capitalize on varied ideas. Make sure that all of your company’s ERGs are inclusive and that any full-time employee is welcome to join!

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3 views on the future of meetings

TechCrunch

Mostly you don’t need to align, most folks taking part are superfluous and as accidental team-building exercises they are incredibly expensive in terms of human-hours. I immensely prefer the final option. Work meetings are often a waste of time. I am not into wasting time. The good news is that CEOs are taking note.

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Bliki: Periodic Face-to-Face

Martin Fowler

Trust is hard to develop online, where there isn't the social cues that can happen when we are in the same room. I would avoid any artificial “team buildingexercises, if only because of how much I hate them.

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Team Building 101: Techniques to Improve Your Team’s Productivity

Women on Business

In today’s increasingly cynical climate, it’s easy to think that enterprise-wide team-building exercises are useless. And with good reason: many companies have made the mistake in confusing team-building with team competing. Competition can unfortunately, bring out the worst in people.

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Harmony in Colour and Collaboration:A Sankranti Spectacle of Pookolam, Kite Crafting, and Team Unity

Perficient

We strengthened our organisation’s sense of cohesion and unity while also celebrating the spirit of Sankranti by fusing traditional celebrations with team-building exercises.

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How to Connect with Remote Employees in an Effective Way

Invid Group

Foster a Virtual Team Culture To unite distant workers, a strong sense of team spirit must be fostered. Using virtual team-building exercises promotes cooperation and teamwork. Create online classes, team competitions, or virtual happy hours to foster a more casual and social workplace environment.

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