On the first day of September in the Year of Our Lord 2017, the We Are Open Co-op joined together in a celebration of piety… Read More »A Collection of Voices: We Are Open Co-op Day: September 2017 Edition
originally posted on Opensource.com Remaining empathetic when people criticize your project can be difficult. Here’s how my team did it recently. Over the course of… Read More »How to handle criticism of your open project
Last week, Greenpeacers got together for our Community Call. We kicked off with some quick updates from whomever wanted to share. Ara talked about the… Read More »Spreading Openness: Updates from a Greenpeace Community Call
Through the results of a recent survey, I learned that Greenpeace staff don’t feel engaged. They don’t feel informed, listened to, or empowered. Greenpeace is… Read More »Kicking off a courage conversation
My colleague Amrekha has been developing some materials around the concept of courage. It has me thinking. A lot. I’ve mentioned courage in other posts:… Read More »Open Courage
Semantics play a big role in life. The words we use influence how we think. Words affect our thoughts on the people we’re trying… Read More »Supporters to Change Agents
After reading Titles are Toxic by Rands I remembered a document I wrote while I was still at Mozilla. I asked for anonymous contributions from… Read More »Pathways for Creative Leadership
When we judge out loud (by writing, for example), we project morals and values. Social pressure is perceived. It happens when other people project their… Read More »Learning to understand social pressure
Here’s another stab at trying to nail down the competencies and topics leaders in the open community need to have and an organizing structure for… Read More »Iterating organizing structures
Over the last couple of weeks, we’ve been talking about an organizing structure for future (and current) Teach Like Mozilla content and curriculum. This stream… Read More »Open Web Leadership