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Peanut butter efficiency

May 3, 2023

Efficiency doesn’t come from cutting people, it comes from cutting waste.

If you start from the assumption that you need to make your team happy – that happiness is an input to work that you need to maximize – you reach for one set of tools. Tools that reduce stress, remove discomfort, avoid conflict. And maybe at a birthday party, or a summer camp, those would be appropriate.

Pretend it’s a business

May 4, 2022

Faced with an extended stay in the squishy place, a lot of execs are opting out. They are making decisions with the information they’ve got. Trading liminal for solid ground anywhere they can find it. And, for a lot of workplaces, shit is about to get real.

New York’s hottest club is Competent Management

March 23, 2022

The massive competition for talent has every HR and Talent leader running after the same ball. And the visual effect, from up here on the hill, looks a lot like Bunch Ball.

Everyone’s a great manager until they start managing

March 9, 2022

It’s easy to dip into “I would never talk to my team like that. If I were in charge, I would be a way better boss than that.” That smug satisfaction about what you would do if you were in charge? Well, we understand the appeal.

Long on empathy and short on patience

August 25, 2021

We told leaders to be empathetic. We told them to be understanding. And they are doing that. They are phenomenal about understanding the conditions for underperformance in their teams. But it’s not working…They are patient to a fault.

Is it okay if I eat while we talk?

October 21, 2020

We’re asking our brains to do a lot of work right now. We’re doing our day jobs, caretaking, feeding ourselves, figuring out voting, trying to keep track of the latest public health guidelines, R (and also k), and waiting for updates from the vaccine trials.

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