Where Age Is No Barrier
We’ve all done it, those of us who are older at work. We’ve held back from saying what was on the tip of our tongue, as we suddenly feared, “Will that date me?” I’ve heard people in tech say they never mention their children at work …
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Ted Lasso, the seemingly inept football-turned-soccer coach played by Jason Sudeikis on the eponymous Apple+ streaming series, is an unlikely role model for someone leading a tech team. Or so might someone think who has not watched the …
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If you’ve logged a few decades of work, chances are you now occasionally find yourself in a particularly uncomfortable situation. Your young team is very excited about a new strategy they’ve come up with. But to you, it’s obvious the …
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For a moment, put aside the workplace diversity we can see—race, gender, age. Instead consider a type of diversity we can’t see. I’m talking about cognitive diversity. Cognitive diversity is a broad set of variations in the way people …
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One of the reasons I wrote Employee 6 Is 54, was to shine a light on how startups work. If you’re over 50 and not a technologist, you most likely cut your career teeth on a traditional company. One where clear hierarchies existed, revenue …
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