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September 9, 2020

What’s the opposite of social distance? It’s not social closeness. It’s social spontaneity. Those serendipitous moments of inspiration and collaboration. Those happen most when humans are in close proximity to other humans.

Cheerful swearing for a change

August 26, 2020

There has never been a time when people were more ripe for change. You have an entire world, tilted sideways. And the optimistic part is that you can only get transformation when people are receptive to change.

But how do I know they’re working?

May 20, 2020

There’s a lot of bosses trying to figure this one out right now. Their people aren’t where they can see them. So they ask the very silly, surface level, unexamined, first-time-working-with-remote-folks question. How do I know they’re working?

The end of the beginning

April 22, 2020

Your ability, your team’s ability, your organization’s ability to survive a crisis like this starts when you accept it for what it is.

Top 10%, Bottom 10%

April 8, 2020

This week seemed to be a turning point for a lot of bosses. But we are not done with this thing. There will be optimistic top 10% moments and crushing bottom 10% ones in the weeks to come.

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