January 25, 2023
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.
November 30, 2022
Effective strategic planning is an alignment tool. Alignment as in the whole team. Everyone.
September 7, 2022
The solution is to acknowledge and process the change. To integrate it and come back to something newly coherent. And the way you do that is reflection.
June 29, 2022
So here we are. Faced with this disastrous ruling. And it makes us wonder: how coherent are your organization’s actions on this one? We heard about the relocation policy, what other actions are they taking? Do they line up?
June 1, 2022
The org chart is a power map. Not figuratively. Literally. It is a map of relationships, reporting structure, and accountability lines. When we talk about issues being structural, this is where that structure shows up.
April 6, 2022
We’re hearing from the bosses and people and culture teams asked to implement the Bums-in-Seats directive. Even when they, themselves, are skeptical.
February 23, 2022
Faced with that blandness, a lot of leaders are pushing back-to-office plans. They have nostalgia for the flavour of a packed and humming office, and feel like if people would just get back in there, it would fix things.
September 8, 2021
Can we get to a place where we start to reimagine the thing? Whatever the thing is that you miss, you can reinvent it without starting from zero. Pay attention to the ache of the thing that’s missing. What was important about it?
December 16, 2020
The bosses we know don’t rest very well while their team is in chaos. And many times the people on their teams don’t rest, either. Goals are hard work, we know. But they are how we buy ourselves some clarity. And for us, at least, clarity is what lets the rest actually happen.
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.
August 15, 2018
Over here we measure success by how many people successful next to you
August 17, 2017
Getting back in the saddle again
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