What to do with a gift you can’t return
December 13, 2023
That sad, not particularly thoughtful gift with your name on it? That’s how many people experience performance review season.
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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.
Hot goal summer
July 26, 2023
The opportunity in July (or whenever your mid-year review period lands) is to go back to the whole point of the exercise.
The stuff at the bottom of the to-do list
May 31, 2023
Your team might need better process as you scale. But do they really need you to write a bunch of documentation that you hate, and that they won’t read?
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.
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.
This will only take a minute
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.
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