All hat, no cattle
November 26, 2025
If your org is on your seventh layoff or Lord-have-mercy, your 82nd re-org, we suggest that it’s time to take a hard look at your underlying planning issues
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Don’t let the Doerr hit you on the way out
October 29, 2025
The real test for an org is not whether you ever bet wrong. The question is, when the results start to come in, what do you do now?
The narrowest definition of ambition
July 9, 2025
The people who tout this model of ambition have a whole cinematic universe of heroes and villains and moral dramas and cautionary tales.
Busy is not a personality
June 25, 2025
What would you do if you had a week to just clear out backlog?
20k of headache
April 30, 2025
If one more exec pastes one more link about workplace dips in productivity, the managers are going lose it.
Run it like a business
March 5, 2025
You should have just said “run it badly.”
Nothing about this is temporary
February 5, 2025
The thing you can’t do, even when the entire world is upside down, is freeze.
What to do about time goblins
January 8, 2025
The core theory any time any organization hires anyone — employee, intern, contractor, law firm, outside agency — is leverage.
Announced on Sunday, handed off on Sunday
July 24, 2024
The path to better succession planning starts with taking a moment to reflect.
Even better than inbox zero
July 10, 2024
Not all months are created equal. And July, in particular, is a gift for many orgs if you’re able to grab it.
That afternoon headache is a sign
June 26, 2024
It’s invisible and it’s tricky and it involves things you didn’t think you had to care about before, but air is a thing you can act on.
An immersive mismanagement experience
June 12, 2024
No one wants to work in an org that’s hopeless or doomed.
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