Karen Wickre – Medium

Karen Wickre

12.4K Followers

Published in
Marker

How to Prevent Layoffs From Traumatizing Your Employees

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

Apr 21, 2020

A woman working at home participating in a team video conference call.

Apr 21, 2020

Published in
Marker

How to Talk to Your Team During a Pandemic

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

Mar 20, 2020

An African American businesswoman looking pensive while at home, in front of her laptop.

Mar 20, 2020

Published in
Marker

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

What even smart companies get wrong about core values

Mar 3, 2020

A businesswoman leads a white board session and presentation in a conference room with her colleagues.

Mar 3, 2020

Published in
Marker

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

Feb 10, 2020

A photo of business people networking in an office building with glass windows at night.

Feb 10, 2020

Published in
Marker

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

Jan 27, 2020

A woman speaks into a microphone, asking questions while standing amidst colleagues.

Jan 27, 2020

Published in
ART + marketing

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…

Mar 4, 2016

And now, for something different

Mar 4, 2016

Published in
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…

Feb 3, 2016

A bleeding heart responds to TEDxSanQuentin

Feb 3, 2016

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…

Dec 26, 2015

Dec 26, 2015

The play’s the thing

or, how I spent my summer vacation.

Sep 2, 2014

The play’s the thing

Sep 2, 2014

Remembering Dad.

He would be astonished by my world

Jun 16, 2013

Remembering Dad.

Jun 16, 2013

“Incredible but true” - so many things are.

Aug 12, 2012

“Incredible but true” - so many things are.

Aug 12, 2012

It’s Carnaval all year round in the Mission.

Aug 11, 2012

It’s Carnaval all year round in the Mission.

Aug 11, 2012

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)/.

Following

See all (2,075)

Help
Status
About
Careers
Press
Blog
Privacy
Terms
Text to speech
Teams