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That rattling sound is your Q4

September 22, 2021

There’s an adage in business that any decision is better than no decision. Because even if you’re wrong, you can always make a different decision further down the road.

There’s no ‘I’ in Burnout

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?

One year summer

June 2, 2021

Look around. Where are you running an outdated plan? Do the priorities your team has right now make sense, right now? Does the composition of your team still make sense? Does your job description? Does your company?

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.

With bated breath

November 7, 2016

We strive to post regularly, but this week our attention is elsewhere. We’re waiting, watching, and hoping as the United States electorate heads to the polls.

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