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Has your eye stopped twitching yet?

December 30, 2020

Thank you for 2020. Thank you for forwarding our stuff, and writing us to tell us when it hit. We’re trying to make work better for people because we think it’s possible and worthy and important.

The waiting is the hardest part

July 29, 2020

To run the tapes is to review past performance – yours or someone else’s – to see what you can learn from it. To run, and re-run, the metaphorical or literal video tape.

Checkmate in five moves

July 15, 2020

For those of you who see yourself in the 40% and falling camp, though, it’s time to see it for what it is. If it’s genuinely changeable and you have the energy and the commitment to change it, we’re rooting for you. If it’s not changeable, though. Well.

This is nothing like mat leave

May 6, 2020

8 weeks ago things here in Toronto started to shut down. And if they’d only shut down for a week or two, maybe we all could have gone back to what it was. But it’s been two months. You’re different than you were. We all are.

The end of the beginning

April 22, 2020

Your ability, your team’s ability, your organization’s ability to survive a crisis like this starts when you accept it for what it is.

Top 10%, Bottom 10%

April 8, 2020

This week seemed to be a turning point for a lot of bosses. But we are not done with this thing. There will be optimistic top 10% moments and crushing bottom 10% ones in the weeks to come.