Don’t Drive Like This & Gary Dietz Blog

One of my takeaways from a recent episode of Hidden Brain was the story about a young doctor who couldn’t keep up until she started to make time for herself. And once she did, she was able to actually get more done…

Written in 2019 BEFORE lockdown There are many formal and research-based articles and essays about working from home (#wfh) — Its advantages, disadvantages, and the kinds of people and roles that are suited for wfh. This essay isn’t one of…

Two market crashes ago, I was a Senior Product Manager at a really cool startup founded by some genius MIT folks. An innocuous phone call came in to our marketing manager, a non-specific request from a mid-level person. Someone wanting…

When I was very young, I remember my grandmother interceding in a heated financial argument between my parents by loudly lamenting “get rid of that damn calculator, it’s ruining everything!” That’s the earliest example I can remember when a tool,…

Our emotional product manager, product marketer, and content marketer brains want to have high quality, effective, extensively leveraged content and programs that come in under budget (or have trivial budget). We want it all.

Without biological diversity, a fish tank will not thrive and all life will die. (And if it doesn’t die, it will certainly not thrive.)

Here are a series of icebreakers and activities that you can do (or adapt, depending on the collaboration tools you use) to help build true interaction between remote teams. And not kill them with PowerPoint.

Whether it’s an employer’s market or an employee’s market, the things people do (and don’t do) impact reputations of all parties. This impact happens whether or not there is a match for the position under consideration.

This is a placeholder for a very interesting long form essay I’m writing.  Thanks for your patience!