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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 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.

Bad advice you shouldn’t take

January 12, 2022

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.

How to predict the future

December 29, 2021

Assumptions and predictions are two tools to get at the same thing. Both try to crystallize how you think about the world today, in case it changes. But writing down an assumption is passive, it’s descriptive. Making a prediction is active.

Can you talk about why everyone is quitting?

March 10, 2021

That we’re at the one year mark for the first lockdowns and it feels like everyone is quitting, well, we can’t say we’re surprised. But it’s our full time job to pay attention to this stuff. And what we’re hearing from a lot of you is: why now?

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