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August’s efforts to understand how the Future of Work, works

The Future of Work & Dismantling Racism: August’s Journey Towards Becoming an Anti-Racist…

The Future of Work & Dismantling Racism: August’s Journey Towards B...

This is the first of a series of posts on August’s journey towards becoming an anti-racist organization. We look forward to sharing our…

Sasha Neha Ahuja

Sep 27, 2017

How To Get A Job Doing What We Do(-ish)…

Creating a career in responsive organization development and consulting

Mike Arauz

May 27, 2016

From Tag to Tennis: Lessons in Feedback

I remember it like it was yesterday. At the time I was obsessed with uncovering all of my blindspots and perfecting all the imperfect…

Usha Gubbala

Feb 5, 2017

August State of the Union : March 2017

A lot has happened since we last shared a detailed update on how things are going at August. In many ways March of 2016 honestly feels like…

August

Mar 27, 2017

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Usha Gubbala

Nov 6, 2018

The Future of Work is Political

I’m standing in line today to exercise my right to vote for the first time. Despite growing up in the US, I’ve only recently become a US citizen.

As I excitedly wait in an hour long line, I hear multiple comments around me that make me acutely…

Monique Kelmenson

Nov 27, 2017

90 day letter to former self: Tips and tricks I wish I would have known when I started at August and for new Gustos

Hey Monique!

You finally moved to New York and found a job with a 20 minute (or 15 minute if you really move those legs of yours) walk to work! Wahoo! I would say “Yay, congrats you…

Max Sather

Nov 5, 2017

Undoing Patriarchy

Reflections on the first convening of the August Men’s Ally group

August is a roles-based organization, which means that instead of singular job titles, each Member holds a number of “Roles” at any given time. We recently audited the Roles at August to check for any…

Justine Lai

Oct 31, 2017

Lessons Learned on the Role of Data in Driving Change and Inclusion

I’ve always had a fraught relationship with numbers and data. Some of my earliest memories are of doing math with my grandmother, a retired Hong Kong math school teacher who was determined that I would follow in…

Alix Zacharias

Oct 27, 2017

August Tech Stack

When we started August, at the top of the to-do-list was ‘figure out what tools we would use to operate.’ As the Operations…

Reading (and listening) recommendations for white folks who want to educate themselves about undoing racism

You are a white, heterosexual, cisgender man. A letter to myself.

90 days after starting at August Public, employees are encouraged to write a letter to their selves of 90 days previous. Here’s mine:

Justine Lai

Aug 5, 2017

Diagnosing Opportunities for Change

This article is the first of an ongoing series, “You Watch What You Measure” on how we are…

9 Month Letter to Self — Lessons from Life at August

Hello Justine of August 9 Months Past — it’s Justine of August Present (literally, its August 1st today). This was originally supposed to be written to you when you had reached 90 days at August (the company), as a way to share my…

Designing organizations for Generation Z

I was born in 1986, and thus am one of the oldest Millennials. I graduated into a recession, and have found myself bouncing around large organizations who think Millennials are ungrateful ping-pong addicts who just need to shut up and knuckle down.

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