Nothing about this is temporary
February 5, 2025
The thing you can’t do, even when the entire world is upside down, is freeze.
February 5, 2025
The thing you can’t do, even when the entire world is upside down, is freeze.
January 22, 2025
If we all show up with different ick, whose wins? How do we break ties?
January 8, 2025
The core theory any time any organization hires anyone — employee, intern, contractor, law firm, outside agency — is leverage.
December 11, 2024
There is no narrative arc more dystopian than insecure people with power and limited accountability. Our tiny headlamp in an otherwise pitch black situation starts with the idea that work can be better.
November 27, 2024
Attaching the word performance to something doesn’t automatically make it a good idea. In fact, most of the time when we see performance initiatives announced, they have the opposite of their stated intent.
November 13, 2024
A lot of stuff lives in the “about work and not about work at the same time” bucket. Turns out that organizing humans around complex tasks is messy.
October 30, 2024
There was a hard call to be made. And Jeff made it. That’s not abnormal. Jeff makes a lot of hard calls. He has trained his whole life for just this moment. And this one just went very badly.
October 16, 2024
The longer you’re in a culture of niceness and side-channels and things left unsaid, the more you have to wonder about the conversations happening out of earshot.
October 2, 2024
“Don’t worry, we have a slackbot that does weekly micro-learning prompts on how to use the brakes” is a transparently bad idea.
September 18, 2024
The number one rule of leadership development is that there’s no growth without reflection. So come sit a spell and let’s reflect. How’s that two-shapes-of-humans theory actually playing out?
September 4, 2024
We have been to a lot of corporate all-hands, gatherings, conferences, and un-conferences. Some of them have been incredibly well-run. Some of them have been a rolling shit-show. But holy shit what if you did this?
August 21, 2024
There is some design work to do if we want to build new connections, and rebuild the ones we miss.
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