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Still uncool, but finally useful

November 15, 2023

A great performance review is not an evaluation conversation, it’s an alignment conversation.

Standing alone at a cocktail party

May 17, 2023

So much of the hard work of management is unsexy. Unglamorous. It is a grind, and often thankless. And nowhere is this more true than in performance reviews.

Peanut butter efficiency

May 3, 2023

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

Smile more?

June 15, 2022

The correlation of smiling and thriving is pernicious.

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

That smug satisfaction about what you would do if you were in charge? 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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