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From The Heartbeat Podcast: Interview with Laura Roeder, Founder + CEO of MeetEdgar
Laura Roeder is the founder and CEO of MeetEdgar, a social media scheduling platform tool with over 7,000 customers. As a founder who bootstrapped her company to $4MM in annual recurring revenue in 2.5 years, Laura shares her biggest leadership lessons around letting go as a manager.
Transcript of the interview is here.
Latest reads
Almost 70% of US managers are scared to talk to their employees
âA full 69% of respondents said that they found âcommunicating in generalâ to be the hardest part about communicating with employees.âWritten by Corinne Purtill, Quartz
Why People Really Quit Their Jobs
âOur engagement survey results told a different story: When we wanted to keep people and they left anyway, it wasnât because of their managerâŚat least not in the way we expected.âWritten by Lori Goler, Janelle Gale, Brynn Harrington, and Adam Grant, Harvard Business Review
How To Communicate With People Who Disagree With You
âNew research suggests these written arguments may not be the best approach.âWritten by Michael Grothaus, Fast Company
Why I Rejected My Manager
âAfter multiple attempts without success, I decided the best way to maintain a working relationship was simply conforming to Janeâs work style.âWritten by Mianya Ong
Favorite reads
How leaders kill meaning at work
âThe first, and fundamental, requirement is that the work be meaningful to the people doing it.âWritten by Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer, McKinsey Quarterly (this is an all-time favorite piece of mine)
How to Assess Emotional Intelligence During the Interview Process
âAmong employees who fail to meet expectations during their first 18 months on the job, 23% fail due to low emotional intelligence.âWritten by Karla Cook
The Right Culture: Not Just About Employee Satisfaction
âOrganizations have more success with engagement and improve business performance when they treat employees as stakeholders of their own future and the companyâs future.âWritten by Jim Harter and Annamarie Mann, Gallup
Your mean boss is secretly miserable
âA new study published by the Academy of Management Journal finds that in reality, a bossâs explosive behavior or habit of ridiculing subordinates in front of others actually makes them feel pretty awful, too.âWritten by Jena McGregor, Washington Post
Just for fun
Productivity is dangerous
A really interesting take: Do you need to really, actually, need to be doing any more than you actually are?
