Amplify Digest: Age Against The Machine
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Welcome to the Amplify Digest. Every week, I break down five articles in five minutes; discussing the top people news, stories, and resources that are worth your time. Scroll down for links to the articles covered in the video (and more), a helpful thread from the Amplify Accelerator Community, and curated jobs from the Amplify Job Board.
This week’s digest explores age diversity, employee equity, office expectations, leading an exhausted workforce, and more.
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Articles discussed in this week's Digest (and more)
A Two-Year, 50-Million-Person Experiment in Changing How We Work (The New York Times)
Harnessing the Power of Age Diversity (Harvard Business Review)
Go read former Tesla employees’ experiences with racism in their own words (The Verge)
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NEW: ✨ Amplify Community Wisdom ✨
The Amplify Accelerator Community was specifically designed to help modern people operators expand their networks, thinking, and connections. Each week, I'll spotlight a helpful thread from the Community to help Amplify Digest subscribers learn from the discussions.
[Question] Hello! What is everyone's favorite tool for centralized communication like Coda and Notion? Any faves out there particularly for startups/small biz (aka not too pricey) that can perhaps link to storage like google drive but have a better front end/ info architecture so that people can easily navigate?
A1: I adore Notion. We also have a bunch of docs stored in Drive because notion’s data storage isn’t adequate for personal or sensitive info, and being able to link out to that stuff is great.
A2: There was a big thread about this this week in another peer group I'm in and a lot of love shown for Notion, and also a lot of people still using Confluence for this (as my company is) but not as much enthusiasm from that crowd.
A3: I am a fan of Notion but it's because its the only one I've used and managed! But good to know it is also a crowd fave.
A4: We are a small team and our teams already have the Atlassian suite to do their work. So I have piggy-backed off the back of this and utilized Confluence as a centralized communication space. Our engineering, product and design teams already spend a lot of time in that tool so I find it works really well for us.
A5: Following this. Have always heard amazing things about Notion. Long before Notion when I was at a couple of different startups, we used Google Pages then (I think it's called Sites) now which comes with Google Suite to put together a handbook. It's not as slick as Notion, but it worked, was functional, and obviously worked well with the Google ecosystem (Drive, Docs, Sheets, etc.). Oh and you don't need to be a web developer to use it!! I think I also used Trello at one point for a Handbook/onboarding/comms.
A6: In case it's helpful, I had Notion's Head of People on the podcast last month and she shared how they use it internally, including a few people templates, in this post. https://amplifytalent.com/podcast-episodes/how-notion-is-improving-experience-within-people-teams
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