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.
Nice, nice, very nice
October 16, 2024
The longer you’re in a culture of niceness and side-channels and things left unsaid, the more you have to wonder about the conversations happening out of earshot.
What did they say when you told them?
August 7, 2024
You’re just reminding them that it’s a fair expectation that they would try to resolve it directly.
I don’t really have anything this week
May 29, 2024
There’s a difference between surviving and thriving.
Everyone’s favourite face tattoo
March 20, 2024
The neat part about client-ready and exec-ready hides in the 3000 words behind the hyphenation.
What to do with a gift you can’t return
December 13, 2023
That sad, not particularly thoughtful gift with your name on it? That’s how many people experience performance review season.
Still uncool, but finally useful
November 15, 2023
A great performance review is not an evaluation conversation, it’s an alignment conversation.
Is anyone ever ready for leadership?
August 23, 2023
One of the best, most leveraged, most impactful things you can do as a leader is to grow new, excellent leaders.
Standing alone at a cocktail party
May 17, 2023
So much of the hard work of management is unsexy. Unglamorous. It is a grind, and often thankless. And nowhere is this more true than in performance reviews.
Okay, but what about managing up?
January 26, 2022
What’s to be done about the boss above me who doesn’t know this stuff but needs to? How do I get them to show up for me so I can show up for my own team?
Who tells you no?
January 13, 2021
If bobblehead leadership is what’s rewarded in your org, that’s what you’ll get.
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