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How to Prevent Layoffs From Traumatizing Your Employees

Helping your remaining team heal is critical for your company’s future

5 min readApr 21, 2020

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How to Talk to Your Team During a Pandemic

It’s time for steady decision-making and lots of repetition

4 min readMar 20, 2020

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What Startups Can Learn From Facebook’s Reckless ‘Move Fast and Break Things’ Mantra

What even smart companies get wrong about core values

5 min readMar 3, 2020

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Networking Sucks — So Do This Instead

There’s no need to fake your way through awkward interactions if you focus on the opportunities you already have

6 min readFeb 10, 2020

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The Secret to Your Company’s Happiness is Communication

With workplace activism on the rise, a deliberate internal comms strategy can help create ownership and stave off worker alienation

5 min readJan 27, 2020

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And now, for something different

About four and half years ago I came to work at Twitter. I already knew a few of the founding team, and had grown to love the service…

2 min readMar 4, 2016

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And now, for something different

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TEDx Experience

A bleeding heart responds to TEDxSanQuentin

Recently I was lucky to be invited to TEDxSanQuentin, one of those “independently organized” gatherings done in the TED talks style, and…

3 min readFeb 3, 2016

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A bleeding heart responds to TEDxSanQuentin

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My giving list this year

December invariably invites a look back over the closing year, and that can quickly lead to assessing one’s life to date. I’m as…

5 min readDec 26, 2015

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The play’s the thing

or, how I spent my summer vacation.

7 min readSep 2, 2014

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The play’s the thing

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Remembering Dad.

He would be astonished by my world

3 min readJun 16, 2013

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Remembering Dad.

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Karen Wickre

Karen Wickre

12.4K Followers

Connector, word wrangler, reality checker; communications advisor, author (“Taking the Work Out of Networking”), Marker columnist (https://marker.medium.com)/.

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