September 8, 2021
Can we get to a place where we start to reimagine the thing? Whatever the thing is that you miss, you can reinvent it without starting from zero. Pay attention to the ache of the thing that’s missing. What was important about it?
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?
May 19, 2021
After a year of being burnt out, crispy fried, work from home, but mostly living at work, employers are asking if we’re ready to come back.
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.
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.
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.
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.
August 12, 2020
We’re all walking around hungry and tired. And leave it to the people in charge of people to notice first.
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.
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.
January 15, 2020
Sometimes things aren’t fine
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?”
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