August 11, 2021
Now’s a bad time to lean on your employee’s sense of loyalty, but a good time to lean on their sense of possibility. New opportunity, high-quality networking, exposure to different ideas. That’s what people in a liminal space can actually engage with.
July 28, 2021
People who are frustrated. Sharp. Daring someone to call them on it and spoiling for a fight. If you’re managing a group of people, you see it in slack messages. The passive aggressive ones. But also the aggressive aggressive ones.
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 21, 2021
When people write the bumper stickers about management versus leadership, this is what they mean. The willingness to make the hard call, to do the unpopular thing, not from a place of taking big swings.
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.
March 10, 2021
That we’re at the one year mark for the first lockdowns and it feels like everyone is quitting, well, we can’t say we’re surprised. But it’s our full time job to pay attention to this stuff. And what we’re hearing from a lot of you is: why now?
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.
December 16, 2020
The bosses we know don’t rest very well while their team is in chaos. And many times the people on their teams don’t rest, either. Goals are hard work, we know. But they are how we buy ourselves some clarity. And for us, at least, clarity is what lets the rest actually happen.
September 23, 2020
If you don’t need to quit during a pandemic, this one isn’t for you. The rest of you who are still here, welcome. This is the unofficial guide for how to quit your job during a pandemic.
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.
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.
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