Articles (Leadership)

During the pandemic, many workers discovered they liked working from home, but CEOs want them in the office, and it's created tension.

How can modern-day employers cut out virtue signalling and actually support women in the workplace?

Back in November 2023, I attended the Ladies that UX (LTUX) Journeys into Leadership event. Inspired by the thoughtful, provoking…

A guide to enable employers to recognise when their managers are disengaging or quiet quitting in their roles

What separates a good leader or manager from a bad one? How do you rise up the ranks whilst staying true to yourself?

From time to time, people will declare Agile dead. On December 1st, Cliff Berg declared Agile dead in a viral post on LinkedIn. Personally…

Why Great Leaders Choose to Speak Last

As a product leader, manage numerous tasks with strict routines to ensure smooth operations and effective management. Here is how to do it;

Disclaimer: This article has been sitting in my drafts for 4 years.. Wow! I completely forgot about it until I saw it today and immediately…

“Nobody listens to me!” say researchers, designers, marketers, engineers … almost everybody. This might be why.

Harness your team’s creativity, foster alignment and improve the consistency of their work by creating some shared principles

Hint: I almost became one

Or how Paul Auster taught me to look at the world differently

In this guide, I walk through the different kinds of “bad”, and give you strategies you can use to rescue the situation — or exit…

Explore the qualities of a great design leader and get tips on becoming one. Transofrm your career and get leadership qualities today.

I have been spending a lot of time thinking about what it means to be a Design Leader in the context of today and the state of design in our world, our markets, and our lives. As a result of my ongoing job search, I began looking into how I might become a more effective leader and how one attempts t

If you are in an under-resourced UX team it might be time to redefine your role from implementor to educator.

Something went wrong somewhere. You didn’t manifest this in a single one of your daily pages. You’re tired of fixing, and just want to…

There is more than one account of Gen-Z candidates behaving rudely with their prospective employers, but why is this generation so…

Here’s how to talk to your employees so they actually change their behavior

OKRs are an extremely powerful tool, but among the many mistakes companies make, a flat list of OKRs is a very common one…

And it will stick with me lifelong

There's a very specific reputation I want to have on a team: "Nat helps me solve my problems. Nat get things I care about done."

UX professionals often focus on mastering practical skills such as UI design, user research, and usability testing. While these skills are…

A healthy workplace culture is not about the percentage of people who bring an apple into work or anything like that; it’s much more complex.

Management is an active sport. Hands off is bad, micro-management is worse. Here’s how to manage without over-managing.

Practical and aggressively self-tested advice on taking notes at work

Planning is a useful tool but it can become an excuse to delay execution. You don’t need a detailed plan, what you need is to get to work.

Setting these expectations for your team can reduce problems down the road

Some salient thoughts on running a design team