Everyone has a plan until the second domino falls
September 30, 2026
No org stays moderately overloaded for a decade.
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The people who care are having the hardest time
April 29, 2026
That this passes for visionary leadership and is rewarded by the market is the surest sign we’re into some totally upside-down-face corporate groupthink.
With love in our hearts for your eventual revolution
November 12, 2025
If we want work to be better, we need possibility, not futility.
You’re probably not that hardcore
October 1, 2025
You can drop a lot of frogs in that pot and very few will feel their feet get warm.
Busy is not a personality
June 25, 2025
What would you do if you had a week to just clear out backlog?
20k of headache
April 30, 2025
If one more exec pastes one more link about workplace dips in productivity, the managers are going lose it.
Was the Future of Work a ZIRP?
May 15, 2024
You can feel lucky to have a job and still want your work to have reasonable hours, pay equity, and the flexibility to deal with family matters on a Wednesday afternoon.
If you’re doing their job, who’s doing your job?
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.
If it’s urgent, call my cell
December 27, 2023
Do this work long enough and every aspect of the human condition will at some point show up for someone you manage. Or for yourself.
What to do with the muchness
November 1, 2023
Either, we’re running as fast as we can toward clear targets. Or we’re running as fast as we can without clear targets.
The sign of a good compromise
June 28, 2023
The past few years we’ve swung wildly between utopian and dystopian visions.
You don’t have a culture problem, you have a management problem
June 14, 2023
Culture handbooks don’t produce culture, people do.
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