Fundamentally, this is a story about power
May 5, 2021
The short answer is no. The Basecamp stuff isn’t some evil genius strategy playing out according to plan.
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Fire me if you have to
April 21, 2021
When people write the bumper stickers about management versus leadership, this is what they mean. The willingness to make the hard call, to do the unpopular thing, not from a place of taking big swings.
Running on empty and full to bursting
April 7, 2021
There’s a grand re-integration coming. As the normalcy of exterior life returns it’s gonna let us focus on what a mess we’ve made of the place, internally.
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?
Evidence-based hope
December 2, 2020
We talk about power head on. And what it means to be the people who control how work feels. What an awesome responsibility it is. And what happens when leaders fall short. We don’t let them pretend it away. We sit in the discomfort of the thing. And that’s where our hope comes from.
Companies don’t make decisions, people do
October 7, 2020
So on the one hand, you have employees agitating for a more complete view of how their employers’ activities impact the world. And on the other you have CEOs hoping that no one will notice those impacts.
How to quit your job during a pandemic
September 23, 2020
If you don’t need to quit during a pandemic, this one isn’t for you. The rest of you who are still here, welcome. This is the unofficial guide for how to quit your job during a pandemic.
Cheerful swearing for a change
August 26, 2020
There has never been a time when people were more ripe for change. You have an entire world, tilted sideways. And the optimistic part is that you can only get transformation when people are receptive to change.
The waiting is the hardest part
July 29, 2020
To run the tapes is to review past performance – yours or someone else’s – to see what you can learn from it. To run, and re-run, the metaphorical or literal video tape.
Checkmate in five moves
July 15, 2020
For those of you who see yourself in the 40% and falling camp, though, it’s time to see it for what it is. If it’s genuinely changeable and you have the energy and the commitment to change it, we’re rooting for you. If it’s not changeable, though. Well.
This is nothing like mat leave
May 6, 2020
8 weeks ago things here in Toronto started to shut down. And if they’d only shut down for a week or two, maybe we all could have gone back to what it was. But it’s been two months. You’re different than you were. We all are.
The end of the beginning
April 22, 2020
Your ability, your team’s ability, your organization’s ability to survive a crisis like this starts when you accept it for what it is.
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