Once more with feeling
April 5, 2023
It’s early April, which means the first quarterly review for a lot of teams. If you haven’t done yours yet, now’s your chance.
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March 8, 2023
You can’t live in hypervigilance. Well, let’s rephrase that. You can, it’s possible. But it’s unpleasant to be around someone who has stayed in that state for too long.
You need more of it than you think
December 28, 2022
When your brain learns that there are blocks of time when it can reliably expand and take on bigger things, it’s astonishing what happens.
Year of the pulse
December 14, 2022
When you look back at the last month, or the last year, what patterns do you see? What are those habits, and are they serving you, as you are now?
The strategists, the smugglers, and the silent
November 30, 2022
Effective strategic planning is an alignment tool. Alignment as in the whole team. Everyone.
Behind the scenes at the magic kingdom
November 16, 2022
We don’t need it to be all doom and gloom. But what does it mean when there’s no longer space to talk about what’s working and what isn’t?
What to do when you’re all out of puffins
October 19, 2022
The bullshit is supposed to be in service of something. Ideally, say, work that you’re proud of, whose impact matters to you, and which allows you to live a life you enjoy.
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.
How to predict the future
December 29, 2021
Assumptions and predictions are two tools to get at the same thing. Both try to crystallize how you think about the world today, in case it changes. But writing down an assumption is passive, it’s descriptive. Making a prediction is active.
Not quite out of office
December 1, 2021
We know that rest is transformative. We can point to periods of downtime in our lives as the places when we got to clarity. Where we had space. Space to breathe, and to take stock.
You can’t seize the moment with your hands full
October 6, 2021
Today, our second book comes out. It’s an ender chest. It is a full year of these newsletters, from the first lockdown to the anniversary of those lockdowns. It is a place to put down some of what the past 18 months have felt like.
If there’s light at the end of the tunnel, why is it still so dark?
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.
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