Caterina Bulgarella is a culture architect, co-founder of Be Thread, a platform of tools for human-centric work environments, and an Ethical Systems core team member.
As companies like Amazon and Meta lay off thousands of employees to cut costs, they lose something valuable in the process that can’t be quantified: workplace culture.
As many organizations stick to remote work or hybrid models, questions about what type of organizational culture can best support their business in this new work reality remain top of mind. Simulations in which players must decide whether to add their money to a common pool without knowing if others will do the same show that the […]
Should the trend of employee denunciations, which have rattled companies like Basecamp, Coinbase, Facebook, and others, make organizations fret? There is reason to be concerned. Hardly confined within the tech industry, this new type of employee voice is on the rise. Companies are dumbfounded as they deal with the consequences of ostensibly another form of today’s […]
When the N.B.A. and its players’ union recently agreed on a simple, yet effective set of actions to advance social justice and racial equality in America, they showed that, in the face of deeply painful systemic challenges, evolved leadership can make a difference. Political and business leaders should take notice. New episodes of violence and […]
The human costs of the COVID-19 pandemic are hard to grasp and accept.
After reaching pandemic proportions, the novel coronavirus is a perfect example of a high conduct-risk challenge. The rate at which COVID-19 will continue to spread will largely depend on how people manage the risk of contagion and whether they take a number of precautionary measures. Not only can adherence to certain sanitary steps, travel advisories, […]
When President Trump made an impromptu appearance at the United Nations at the same time Greta Thunberg was visiting the assembly of international dignitaries, it was almost as if they were meant to meet in person. But they did not. After sailing across the Atlantic, the young activist had come to deliver a scathing rebuke […]
The parable of Elizabeth Holmes and her company, Theranos, is not an unfamiliar one. It involves a dream, a mission, a plan, a vision and quite possibly monumental corruption. It’s unclear whether Theranos’ rise and fall will turn out to be a dazzling mirage of “would-be” business greatness, one of the most infamous stories of […]
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