
Director means something
January 10, 2024
And pretending it’s a title or a pay bump without a new set of responsibilities is a disservice to everyone.
January 10, 2024
And pretending it’s a title or a pay bump without a new set of responsibilities is a disservice to everyone.
You’re just reminding them that it’s a fair expectation that they would try to resolve it directly.
The cure for a structurally overwhelmed team is a better structure. It’s clarity about what matters most, and permission to hand off or put down the work that doesn’t.
It’s easy to dip into “I would never talk to my team like that. If I were in charge, I would be a way better boss than that.” That smug satisfaction about what you would do if you were in charge? Well, we understand the appeal.
Resignations. Competitive talent markets. The structure of the org chart. All of these things can feel bigger than you, as an individual leader trying to get things done in your organization. We get that. But be skeptical of any advice that takes them as fixed.
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.
August 7, 2024
You’re just reminding them that it’s a fair expectation that they would try to resolve it directly.
April 17, 2024
The cure for a structurally overwhelmed team is a better structure. It’s clarity about what matters most, and permission to hand off or put down the work that doesn’t.
January 10, 2024
And pretending it’s a title or a pay bump without a new set of responsibilities is a disservice to everyone.
October 18, 2023
Yours can be a team where people’s humanity has space to coexist with, and even outrank, their productivity. It’s worth building that. We’re all going to need it.
October 4, 2023
You can’t outsource interpersonal connection to the interns, and your team can’t outsource it to you.
June 14, 2023
Culture handbooks don’t produce culture, people do.
March 8, 2023
You can’t live in hypervigilance. Well, let’s rephrase that. You can, it’s possible. But it’s unpleasant to be around someone who has stayed in that state for too long.
January 11, 2023
While collaboration, alignment, decision making, and unit cohesion can all happen outside of meetings, well-run meetings are a very useful and effective place to accomplish those things.
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.
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.
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