On the Topic of Layoffs
Over on the Rands Leadership Slack, we recently posted a primer on the various tools available to job seekers. Unemployment is nice and recovered, but we’re experiencing high volatility in the tech sector. After fourteen years of steady growth, we’re back to echoes of the Dot Com implosion.
Many popular articles on Rands in Repose were based on my formative leadership experiences during this time. It was a start-up you’ve never heard of that began with such enthusiasm and ended as a complicated disaster.
With tech layoffs back in the news, I was reminded of a single sentence spoken by one human that changed how I worked as a leader.
This is what this piece is about: https://randsinrepose.com/archives/by-design/
Have a swell weekend.
Rands.
p.s. Since we last spoke, there are two more Important Things podcasts: Thing 1 and Thing 2.