Fighting toxic working environments
summary
Describes concrete signs and fixes: uses a Lions call-and-response exercise and cites a statistical analysis of over 8,000 people linking perceived stress to worse health, plus the CIA’s 49.8% global female statistic and decades-long pay-gap projections. Shows company failures (Susan Fowler’s Uber account, Theranos’s rollout) and proposes specific actions: distribute power and train people, run explicit codes of conduct, call out bad behavior, and prioritize mentoring because helping others reduces mortality risk and measurably lowers stress harm.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:30Toxic working environments
- 1:33Challenges
- 3:50Something is wrong
- 6:15Bad stress
- 11:02Toxic tech culture
- 12:36The inventor of blood
- 14:34Diversity in tech
- 16:10Pay gap
- 17:44Indicators
- 21:19Warning signs
- 22:25What can we do
- 25:22We are all leaders
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