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?
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 Where are you running an outdated plan?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?
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.
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.
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.
September 25, 2019
Back from betterboss with therapy, coaches, and crisis
July 31, 2019
No you don’t get to charge the interns, Jason.
June 5, 2019
Y’all clearly wanted some OKR content
May 8, 2019
🤢
February 13, 2019
No one knows what you’re saying, Jack.
October 10, 2018
We never like it when we disagree with Peter Drucker (modulo the rampant unexamined sexism)
July 31, 2017
Your management revolution and what it can do to your team
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