The enshittification of work
April 2, 2025
The froth has subsided. And in its wake, organizations have found some truly short-sighted approaches to labour.
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Where are the people-pleasers?
March 19, 2025
The biggest issue for people-pleasing leaders isn’t that they need to be tougher. Or scream more. Or play a different boss on TV.
Nothing about this is temporary
February 5, 2025
The thing you can’t do, even when the entire world is upside down, is freeze.
Apropos of everything
January 22, 2025
If we all show up with different ick, whose wins? How do we break ties?
I’ll call you from the car
November 29, 2023
The important decisions you’ll make as a boss — or a human — need to be made in the midst of very loud and poorly-timed chaos.
Your pencils are sharp enough
March 22, 2023
We’ve learned that there are two types of work that are the most prone to getting stuck like this. And there are different tools we’ve found helpful for getting them unstuck.
That rattling sound is your Q4
September 22, 2021
There’s an adage in business that any decision is better than no decision. Because even if you’re wrong, you can always make a different decision further down the road.
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.
Who are you laughing at?
March 27, 2019
We should all aim higher than a supreme court justice
Does this make me sound human?
February 13, 2019
No one knows what you’re saying, Jack.
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