You don’t want to drink that
August 10, 2022
Threats. Dismissiveness. Burnout. Micromanagement. Yelling. Every bad boss behaviour is going to come out of the woodwork in the next few months.
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Hello from the basement
July 27, 2022
One of us has COVID and so far, thanks in large part to the basement (and boosters! and masking! and updated rapid test procedures!), no one else in the house does.
The Clapback
May 18, 2022
Anywhere your senior leaders are not giving their full-throated support to a thing, you should be prepared for a clapback.
Pretend it’s a business
May 4, 2022
Faced with an extended stay in the squishy place, a lot of execs are opting out. They are making decisions with the information they’ve got. Trading liminal for solid ground anywhere they can find it. And, for a lot of workplaces, shit is about to get real.
How to predict the future
December 29, 2021
Assumptions and predictions are two tools to get at the same thing. Both try to crystallize how you think about the world today, in case it changes. But writing down an assumption is passive, it’s descriptive. Making a prediction is active.
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.
You can’t live in the airport
August 11, 2021
Now’s a bad time to lean on your employee’s sense of loyalty, but a good time to lean on their sense of possibility. New opportunity, high-quality networking, exposure to different ideas. That’s what people in a liminal space can actually engage with.
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 Where are you running an outdated plan?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?
Running on empty and full to bursting
April 7, 2021
There’s a grand re-integration coming. As the normalcy of exterior life returns it’s gonna let us focus on what a mess we’ve made of the place, internally.
The beginning of the end
February 24, 2021
At work, lots of folks are finding it hard to track externalities. And even if they can, who has the energy to go chasing them? As though we need any more reminders that other people’s poor decisions can adversely impact us? It’s no wonder that move inward is showing up at work, too.
If there’s light at the end of the tunnel, why is it still so dark?
January 27, 2021
Maybe this is you and maybe it isn’t. But if you’re leading a team, understand that many of your people are doing this. And if so, here are some things you can do to help.
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.
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