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Are You Too Direct at Work?

Are You Too Direct at Work? 24 Oct 2024 --- Do your coworkers ever tell you that you’re too direct? Executive coach Muriel Wilkins is here with advice and strategies that can help — delivered in one minute or less. Wilkins is the host of HBR’s Coaching Real Leaders, available wherever you get your podcasts. You can also listen here: https://s.hbr.org/3YByY6M Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

What Is It Like to Be a Software Engineer? | Career Crush

What Is It Like to Be a Software Engineer? | Career Crush 22 Jul 2021 --- 𝙎𝙪𝙗𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝘼𝙨𝙘𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮! ✨ https://www.youtube.com/c/HBRAscend ✨ I am fascinated by coding. Seriously, how does it even work? And what is it like to be the person behind the code — a software engineer? 00:00 Coding is magic. 00:53 Meet Lindsey Redd 01:46 What a day look like for a coder? 02:12 How Lindsey started coding 04:10 What are the different types of software engineers? 05:58 The interview process is a lot 07:28 How do you navigate a predominantly white, male industry? 08:47 Let's talk money 10:11 Don't forget the soft skills! Lindsey Redd has coded for some of the coolest tech companies in the world: Slack, Lyft, and now Stripe. She shares her journey from wanting to be a doctor, to studying computer science at Stanford, to thriving in the top echelons of software engineering. She tells Ascend editor Kelsey Alpaio about some common misconceptions about software engineers, what it’s like to work in a predominately white and male industry, and how to nail an interview for a job like hers. We’d love to hear from you! Tell us about your content preferences in our 10-minute survey: https://hbp.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2ldQ5v6xeoxKHrM?source=social_youtube Produced by Andy Robinson, Kelsey Alpaio, and Eliza Laycock Video by Andy Robinson, Kelsey Alpaio, and Eliza Laycock Assistant editing by Eliza Laycock Animation and Design by Riko Cribbs and Karen Player Follow us: https://hbr.org/ascend https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/hbr... https://www.facebook.com/hbrascend/ https://twitter.com/HBRAscend https://www.instagram.com/hbrascend/ #SoftwareEngineering #CareerAdvice #Coding Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Twitch CEO on the Future of the Creator Economy - and the Challenge to Keep the Platform Safe

Twitch CEO on the Future of the Creator Economy - and the Challenge to Keep the Platform Safe 19 May 2022 --- Emmett Shear is cofounder and CEO of Twitch, the fast-growing streaming service popular with video gamers, which was purchased eight years ago by Amazon for nearly $1 billion. Emmett is also a part-time partner for the startup accelerator, Y Combinator. Twitch has been in the news recently: It was the platform used by the alleged shooter of 13 people at a Buffalo grocery store to livestream his actions. The company says the stream was removed less than two minutes after the violence started, but, as Shear explained to HBR editor in chief Adi Ignatius, “there's obviously still work to be done” to make livestreaming platforms safer. Ignatius sat down with Shear in this episode of our video series “The New World of Work” to talk about: • Tactics and strategies for keeping platforms like Twitch free of racist, hateful, and abusive speech. • The present and future of the creator economy, which he says promises to be, for some, a more fulfilling alternative to not just the gig economy, but regular full-time employment. • Monetization, and how it works differently for small creators with 5 followers, and experts with 50,000 followers. • From his time at Y Combinator, the best pieces of advice he’s developed for young startup entrepreneurs. This interview part of a series called “The New World of Work,” which explores how top-tier executives see the future and how their companies are trying to set themselves up for success. Each week, HBR Editor Adi Ignatius will interview a leader on LinkedIn Live — and then share an inside look at those conversations and solicit questions for future discussions in a newsletter just for HBR subscribers. If you’re a subscriber, you can sign up for the newsletter here: https://hbr.org/my-library/preferences?movetile=newworldofwork. Follow us: https://hbr.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvard-business-review/ https://www.facebook.com/HBR/ https://twitter.com/HarvardBiz https://www.instagram.com/harvard_business_review Sign up for Newsletters: https://hbr.org/email-newsletters #HarvardBusinessReview #FutureofWork #Twitch Copyright © 2022 Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Responding to the "Pet-to-Threat" Treatment

Responding to the "Pet-to-Threat" Treatment 23 Oct 2024 --- Have you ever felt like you’ve been so good at accomplishing your work goals that your boss suddenly sees you as a threat? Women at Work co-hosts Amy Gallo and Amy Bernstein have some tactics for dealing with “pet-to-threat” scenarios like this. Listen to HBR’s Women at Work podcast for more advice from Amy and Amy. Season 10 starts October 21. In the meantime, the show’s feed has six years’ worth of episodes to scroll through, on all sorts of skills and topics. Listen here: https://s.hbr.org/4hiuKbl Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]

Designing a Financial Game Plan: Where Do I Even Start?

Designing a Financial Game Plan: Where Do I Even Start? 19 Jul 2021 --- If you’re overwhelmed with managing your savings—emergency fund? retirement? debt?—here’s a clear, step-by-step plan to get started. Tori Dunlap, entrepreneur and finance educator, lays out which financial goals to prioritize first to best leverage your investment of time and money. 0:00 How (and where) do you start your financial plan? 0:19 Build an emergency fund in a high-yield savings account 0:40 Pay off high-interest debt 1:22 Save for retirement while paying off lower-interest debt 2:00 Big life goals (ex. buying a house, starting a family, retiring early) 2:29 Take advantage of an employer match through your retirement program 3:11 Rely on your financial game plan to meet your financial goals 3:44 Keep yourself motivated by knowing exactly what you’re saving money for In this HBR collaboration with Tori Dunlap, you'll learn how to make educated decisions about your money and your career. Learn more about Tori Dunlap at: https://herfirst100k.com https://www.instagram.com/herfirst100k https://www.tiktok.com/@herfirst100k Follow us: https://hbr.org/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/harvard-business-review/ https://www.facebook.com/HBR/ https://twitter.com/HarvardBiz https://www.instagram.com/harvard_business_review Sign up for Newsletters: https://hbr.org/email-newsletters #HarvardBusinessReview #personalfinance #financialplan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices [https://megaphone.fm/adchoices]