Mind Tools Team Management

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Please Join Our Twitter Chat! What: #MTtalk Where: Twitter When: September 9 @ 1 p.m. In our upcoming #MTtalk Twitter chat, we’ll be discussing what neurodiversity is and how workplaces and society can be more inclusive. In our Twitter poll this week we asked neurodiverse people how welcome they feel at work.

Inclusion 91

Inclusion Education Reorganization Recruitment 91

Kellogg Insight

DECEMBER 13, 2022

But after a month with Musk in command, Twitter is in trouble with users, advertisers, and the government. Elon Musk has built several visionary businesses.

Advertising 60

Advertising Government 60

Alison Green

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This post, an update on my Twitter account hacking , was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. My Twitter account was hacked on Tuesday and I still don’t have access to it. Update: Twitter came through and my original account is restored and back in my hands!

Accounts 65

Accounts Manager 65

Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Since completing his acquisition of Twitter, Elon Musk has made changes to bring back banned members, allow more types of content, and in general reduce moderation.

Media 88

Media 88

Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The electric car company is more valuable than its rivals because of investors’ confidence in Elon Musk’s vision, but his ownership of Twitter and increasingly erratic behavior are eroding it.

Transportation 105

Transportation 105

Forbes Leadership

OCTOBER 28, 2022

As the billionaire assumes ownership of Twitter, staff at the social media company are “freaking.”.

Media 128

Media 128

Forbes Leadership

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Questions about Twitter's future have been relentless since Elon Musk took over, spilling over to concerns about the impact of Twitter on Musk's other enterprises. But while Tesla and SpaceX have built Musk's wealth and reputation as an entrepreneur, they may fail to make up for the Twitter dramedy.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2023

How should Elon Musk approach long-term strategy to turn around Twitter?

Advertising 67

Advertising Media Manager 67

Forbes Leadership

OCTOBER 30, 2022

People posting racist content and other hate speech has significantly increased since Elon Musk took over Twitter last week and fired the social media giant’s top execs.

Media 111

Media Diversity Inclusion 111

Association Now Leadership

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Is Elon Musk exactly the kind of CEO Twitter needs , or is he speedily running it into the ground ? Setting aside all the armchair quarterbacking about what’s been going on with Twitter as a product and as a company in the weeks since Musk took over the company, what’s clear is that the CEO role at Twitter is an especially big job.

Succession Planning 64

Succession Planning Manager 64

15Five

AUGUST 19, 2020

Twitter made headlines in May by announcing that a remote work option would be available to their 5,000+ full time workforce, forever! Even before coronavirus, Twitter allowed employees to work remotely as part of their larger strategies around decentralization and Diversity & Inclusion. Jennifer: Twitter is really special.

Human Resources 104

Human Resources Diversity Inclusion Real Estate 104

Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Elon Musk is implementing massive people changes at Twitter. Here are 3 challenges for Twitter and 3 inclusion opportunities organizations can learn from. These changes have impacted the culture and DEI efforts.

Inclusion 81

Inclusion Implementation Diversity 81

Forbes Leadership

JUNE 3, 2023

Twitter recently lost another senior executive responsible for content and safety issues. The departures are reminders of the need for a solid bench of corporate talent.

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Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Experts say Elon Musk's Twitter tactics are taking us back to Dark Age business practices, robbing employees of the human experience and compromising their mental health.

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Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

A week after taking ownership of Twitter, Elon Musk faces several crises. Indeed, the company may have set a record for the number of crises to hit an organization so quickly. What Musk did that created the crises and how he is managing them provides crucial lessons for corporate executives.

Manager 95

Manager 95

Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Elon Musk surely deserves some sort of award for running a company the size of Twitter into the ground in record time. So far, his tenure at the once-great social media giant has been a master class in what not to do as a leader. Here are his four biggest mistakes.

Media 78

Media 78

Forbes Leadership

JANUARY 25, 2023

Although it makes complete business sense for Twitter to send client apps to the guillotine, the loss of Twitterrific (and Tweetbot and many others) is a great communal loss for the people who not only created the products, but also for innovation in terms of art-worthy user interface design.

Diversity 91

Diversity Inclusion 91

Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Comedy is now legal on Twitter, but the joke is on Elon Musk.

Media 98

Media Marketing 98

Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Twitter closed its offices after hundreds of workers reportedly left after Musk demanded they work longer hours, prompting fears the platform will soon close.

Media 98

Media 98

Forbes Leadership

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Slack cofounder Stewart Butterfield exits; Elon Musk faces mounting legal issues at Twitter and Neuralink; artificial intelligence breakthroughs trickle into startup valuations; and more.

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52

Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I asked big creators what they thought about Elon Musk's recent purchase of Twitter. This is what they had to say.

Media 66

Media 66

Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Lawmakers pressed the chief executives of Apple and Google to take action against apps that present potential security risks; Twitter employees filed a class action lawsuit against the company; meet Geoffrey Palmer, a real estate billionaire who hates affordable housing; and more.

Real Estate 70

Real Estate 70

Chief Executive

MARCH 9, 2023

It’s been an opportunity to take a retrospective look at what data security policies should have been established at Twitter and learn from the past. Mudge noted that one of his concerns was that Twitter didn’t know what data it was collecting. Do we know what data is in each environment? But this isn’t the only problem.

Government 52

Government Insurance Engineering Implementation 52

Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Are you a Twitter Quitter?

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52

Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Workers in the tech and startup sectors need to brace for escalating layoffs. The current economic conditions will cause tech companies of all sizes to reconsider their hiring policies to stay competitive and solvent.

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96

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Five principles Elon Musk (or anyone) should follow when making strategic changes at a legacy tech company.

Change Management 73

Change Management Manager 73

Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

There have been a lot of workers let go and plenty of talk about how Mr. Musk is pushing workers hard.

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76

Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Elon Musk’s ultimatum to Twitter’s employees that they have until today to commit to a new ‘hardcore’ company or leave with severance pay poured more gas on the fire at the social media platform. His edict could have a devestating impact on workers and the company.

Media 105

Media 105

Forbes Leadership

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Layoffs, hiring freezes, relocating positions to lower-cost locations, rescinding job offers, putting people on performance improvement plans (PIPs) and threatening job security are some of the ways in which the industry is cutting down on headcount to save money.

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Forbes Leadership

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Might Elon Musk’s successor be a woman? Given that nearly 90% of tech company executives are men, selecting a highly-qualified woman as CEO of one of the largest social media platforms would be a huge win for the industry. But would it be good for her career?

Media 75

Media Diversity Inclusion 75

Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Past comments from Elon Musk and Clarence Thomas show both men have shifted their world views.

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Alison Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

This post, update: I work at Twitter … what do I do? , Remember the letter-writer worked at Twitter and was wondering what to do as the company imploded ? 10/27: During the first Halloween party Twitter had held since the pandemic, Elon fired most of the senior leadership team. ? It’s “where are you now?” Here’s the update.

Accounts 22

Accounts Manager Compliance 22

Forbes Leadership

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

A layoff becomes more complicated when the employee is an H-1B visa holder.

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100

Forbes Leadership

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The Black-led fund is putting an emphasis on storytelling and community, fueled by the pedigrees of its founders, who previously helped launch Blavity and BLCK VC.

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Forbes Leadership

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Sevetri Wilson of Resilia raised the largest round ever for a solo Black female-founded tech company; inside the fortunes of the two billionaire owners facing off in the World Series; 11 estate-planning strategies to talk through with your financial advisor; and more.

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Forbes Leadership

APRIL 4, 2023

The challenges that many companies are facing in their hard-line, inflexible approach to returning to the office highlight deeper issues of broken culture, social contract, and trust in these companies.

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Forbes Leadership

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Nevada's 19th straight month of more than $1 billion in gaming revenue; regulators pressed to investigate ByteDance and TikTok; Ford scraps self-driving car initiative Argo AI; and more.

Revenue 73

Revenue 73