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Efficiency doesn’t come from cutting people, it comes from cutting waste.

The best thing you can do. The magical transformative thing you can do to improve your odds that something amazing will happen. Is to think ahead.

It’s early April, which means the first quarterly review for a lot of teams. If you haven’t done yours yet, now’s your chance.

We’ve learned that there are two types of work that are the most prone to getting stuck like this. And there are different tools we’ve found helpful for getting them unstuck

Staring down a difficult reality and finding your way to acceptance is hard enough. But having a manager conceal that reality from you makes acceptance impossible.

Lowering your shields enough to get to real questions is the hard part. But once you have those in hand, there are still a few other mistakes to avoid.

Someone else’s goals might be eloquently written, but that doesn’t mean they matter to you. Someone else’s values statement might seem so clear-eyed and attractive, but that doesn’t make it yours.

When your brain learns that there are blocks of time when it can reliably expand and take on bigger things, it’s astonishing what happens.

When you look back at the last month, or the last year, what patterns do you see? What are those habits, and are they serving you, as you are now?