Before your next offsite
April 19, 2023
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.
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Once more with feeling
April 5, 2023
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.
My milkshake brings all the orgs to the yard
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.
The strategists, the smugglers, and the silent
November 30, 2022
Effective strategic planning is an alignment tool. Alignment as in the whole team. Everyone.
You’ve changed
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.
The opposite of coherent
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?
The unloved doc with all the answers
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.
The donuts aren’t working
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.
The perks are great and the work is fine
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.
Just say hybrid because nobody knows
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?
It’s not rest if you can’t sleep
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.
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.
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