Culture & Management
The corporate playbooks used to combat organizational trauma (and why they're not enough).
Some of you are reading this because you are currently experiencing a horrible manager and are trying to GTFO. Some of you are reading this because you have goals to level up in your career and want to make sure your future manager will support you. And some of you are just looking for this affirmation: you’re not crazy, there really are issues with your manager.
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The corporate playbooks used to combat organizational trauma (and why they're not enough).
Nurturing our own values and needs will help us understand and serve our users
If UX is all about empathy and caring about users, why don’t we care for ourselves the same way?
There are times when our work impacts us deeply — sometimes in ways we neither acknowledge nor understand.
For an industry that prides itself on being experts in valuing and understanding people, it never ceases to amaze how much we talk about empathy & human-centered design in comparison to how little we talk about the challenging personal work necessary to achieve it.
Some of you are reading this because you are currently experiencing a horrible manager and are trying to GTFO. Some of you are reading this because you have goals to level up in your career and want to make sure your future manager will support you. And some of you are just looking for this affirmation: you’re not crazy, there really are issues with your manager.