HOW TO AVOID GETTING CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE AS A MANAGER

What you're facing is delicate: A direct report is complaining about someone else.

That 'someone else' happens to be a senior leader.

You don't see eye-to-eye with your direct report... But you don't want them to feel

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I can 100% relate. And that’s what I did this week—worked on my reentry.

THE ROAD TO RECOVERY AS A LEADER

We are all so tired as leaders. Exhausted. Drained.

Conventional wisdom gives us the prescription to “rest more” and “do more self-care.”

Yet I personally have never quite found that alone to fully work for me...

I noticed this particularly

In light of our rebrand to canopy.is, a note of gratitude... 💚

Thank you Canopy team (Daniel Lopes especially!), Jason Fried DHH (founders of 37signals where we originally spun-out from many years ago)  – and to each of you for supporting us for so many years,

I am working on a website build and these lessons still apply. Pretty useful~

Love to see that Claire Lew is still thriving and pushing with Know Your Team, which has now become Canopy. Management isn't easy. From performance reviews to 1-1s to all the rest of it. A lot of people can use some guidance. Claire and team provides it. canopy.is/m/rebrand

And now it's called 'Canopy' (Canopy )

Congrats on the re-brand Claire Lew it suits you!

An unusually simple spin-off story.

It was 2014, and we decided to spin one of our products off into its own company. The product was Know Your Company and knew the perfect person to run it. Her name was Claire Lew.

There are a million ways to spin-off a company. And most of

In the early 2010s, we built and launched a product called Know Your Company to help business owners like me get to know their own company a bit better. As companies grow past 25 or 30 people, it's natural to begin to lose touch with everything that's happening, how people are

'If you're a leader, and you’ve spent late nights googling things like, “how to be a good manager” or “how to run a team meeting” or “how to delegate well, then Canopy is for you.'

So happy this is out! And really proud of our team. In just a month, we came up with a name, logo, updated our marketing + all the work you can expect on 10-year-old codebase (250kloc, iOS app, tons of third-party tools, SAML, DNS, SEO, WordPress, etc.). 🙌

Something soon is finally here…

Know Your Team is now Canopy (Canopy) 🌱

We’ve got a new brand, a new product 🎉

Read the note from our CEO here:
canopy.is/m/rebrand