The waiting is the hardest part
July 29, 2020
To run the tapes is to review past performance – yours or someone else’s – to see what you can learn from it. To run, and re-run, the metaphorical or literal video tape.
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Checkmate in five moves
July 15, 2020
For those of you who see yourself in the 40% and falling camp, though, it’s time to see it for what it is. If it’s genuinely changeable and you have the energy and the commitment to change it, we’re rooting for you. If it’s not changeable, though. Well.
You’d know the answer for sidewalk chalk
July 1, 2020
What is the choice you can make that feeds your community? Of the available options, even if they’ll never hear about it either way, which is the one you’d be proud for your community to know about? Do that one.
Are we gonna talk about that asterisk?
June 17, 2020
As we start to look toward what happens next, we’re thinking a lot about the asterisk. And what it means that the people in charge think everything is fine.
Is anyone really thinking about work right now?
June 3, 2020
Our Black readers don’t need us to tell them anything about how to fight the oppression they face. That’s not our lane. But we’re hearing from non-Black bosses that they don’t know what they should do.
But how do I know they’re working?
May 20, 2020
There’s a lot of bosses trying to figure this one out right now. Their people aren’t where they can see them. So they ask the very silly, surface level, unexamined, first-time-working-with-remote-folks question. How do I know they’re working?
This is nothing like mat leave
May 6, 2020
8 weeks ago things here in Toronto started to shut down. And if they’d only shut down for a week or two, maybe we all could have gone back to what it was. But it’s been two months. You’re different than you were. We all are.
The end of the beginning
April 22, 2020
Your ability, your team’s ability, your organization’s ability to survive a crisis like this starts when you accept it for what it is.
Top 10%, Bottom 10%
April 8, 2020
This week seemed to be a turning point for a lot of bosses. But we are not done with this thing. There will be optimistic top 10% moments and crushing bottom 10% ones in the weeks to come.
What do I tell my team?
March 25, 2020
Bosses are wondering, “What do I tell my team?” And tucked in it, another question. “What should someone be telling me? Cause no one is and I’m not comfortable winging something this big. I am way out of my depth.”
Our job now is to flatten the curve
March 11, 2020
The COVID-19 coverage feels like it’s everywhere and it’s overwhelming. If it feels that way for us, it probably feels that way for many of you, and for the people in your organizations. It’s a lot.
Small business, big stakes
February 26, 2020
If the icebergs organize we’re all in trouble
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