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.
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The beginning of the end
February 24, 2021
At work, lots of folks are finding it hard to track externalities. And even if they can, who has the energy to go chasing them? As though we need any more reminders that other people’s poor decisions can adversely impact us? It’s no wonder that move inward is showing up at work, too.
If there’s light at the end of the tunnel, why is it still so dark?
January 27, 2021
Maybe this is you and maybe it isn’t. But if you’re leading a team, understand that many of your people are doing this. And if so, here are some things you can do to help.
But we’re being really careful
November 18, 2020
This week in particular we need you using your sway in the organization to make structural change. We need you managing up and across. Whatever’s on that list is going to need action, if your people and your organization are going to make it through winter in one piece.
Just because you have wifi doesn’t mean you’re connected
August 12, 2020
The desire of the HR team to feed the people in their organizations comes from a good place. And they’re right, of course. We’re all walking around hungry and tired. And leave it to the people in charge of people to notice first.
You’d know the answer for sidewalk chalk
July 1, 2020
What is the choice you can make that feeds your community? Of the available options, even if they’ll never hear about it either way, which is the one you’d be proud for your community to know about? Do that one.
Are we gonna talk about that asterisk?
June 17, 2020
As we start to look toward what happens next, we’re thinking a lot about the asterisk. And what it means that the people in charge think everything is fine.
That’s not a freckle
January 15, 2020
Sometimes things aren’t fine
Unlimited vacation and other forms of guilt-based management
August 25, 2016
If the goal of unlimited vacation is to encourage people to take care of themselves, and to take the time they need, we should ask “does it achieve that goal?”
Wanna co-pour?
August 21, 2016
Grab a seat, get comfortable, pour something that warms your insides. We’re glad you’re here.
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