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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.

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 Where are you running an outdated plan?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?

It’s not rest if you can’t sleep

December 16, 2020

The bosses we know don’t rest very well while their team is in chaos. And many times the people on their teams don’t rest, either. Goals are hard work, we know. But they are how we buy ourselves some clarity. And for us, at least, clarity is what lets the rest actually happen.

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.

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