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.
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Hot goal summer
July 26, 2023
The opportunity in July (or whenever your mid-year review period lands) is to go back to the whole point of the exercise.
The stuff at the bottom of the to-do list
May 31, 2023
Your team might need better process as you scale. But do they really need you to write a bunch of documentation that you hate, and that they won’t read?
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.
You need more of it than you think
December 28, 2022
When your brain learns that there are blocks of time when it can reliably expand and take on bigger things, it’s astonishing what happens.
The strategists, the smugglers, and the silent
November 30, 2022
Effective strategic planning is an alignment tool. Alignment as in the whole team. Everyone.
Everyone’s a great manager until they start managing
March 9, 2022
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.
There’s no ‘I’ in Burnout
June 30, 2021
We hear from managers who want strategies for dealing with the burnt out folks on their teams. Doing the equivalent of the trolley problem every time a new project pops up. How do you give someone new work even as they’re drowning under the existing work?
Are you too smart to work hard?
January 23, 2017
The one about bullets and quicksand
Go faster — how to move with confidence
January 19, 2017
Walk into any modern company today and you’ll find people paralyzed by what they don’t know.
You know your product team is failing — do you know why?
January 6, 2017
Would you believe me if I told you that it’s almost always the same, fixable thing?
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