Don't ship the org chart.
Read MorePolicy can be a tool for that care when it's built thoughtfully, and when it evolves with the needs of your people.
Read MoreThat sad, not particularly thoughtful gift with your name on it? That's how many people experience performance review season.
Read MoreThe important decisions you'll make as a boss — or a human — need to be made in the midst of very loud and poorly-timed chaos.
Read MoreEither, we're running as fast as we can toward clear targets. Or we're running as fast as we can without clear targets.
Read MoreYours can be a team where people's humanity has space to coexist with, and even outrank, their productivity. It's worth building that. We're all going to need it.
Read MoreYou can't outsource interpersonal connection to the interns, and your team can't outsource it to you.
Read MoreIf we want to understand the nagging sense, the underlying frustration, the thing that's screaming in blinky red lights. We're gonna have to say it out loud.
Read MoreSometimes humans really do need a reality check, that's fair. But if you're going to reality check someone, we suggest starting with the manager in the mirror.
Read MoreOne of the best, most leveraged, most impactful things you can do as a leader is to grow new, excellent leaders.
Read MoreWhen we talk with bosses about their work today, we don't hear about commutes. We don't hear about summer hours, or four-day-work-weeks, either.
Read MoreThe opportunity in July (or whenever your mid-year review period lands) is to go back to the whole point of the exercise.
Read MoreHow do you know? How is it that you can listen to someone talk about work and consistently know what's going to happen next?
Read MoreThe past few years we've swung wildly between utopian and dystopian visions.
Read MoreStaring down a difficult reality and finding your way to acceptance is hard enough. But having a manager conceal that reality from you makes acceptance impossible.
Read MoreLowering your shields enough to get to real questions is the hard part. But once you have those in hand, there are still a few other mistakes to avoid.
Read MoreSomeone else's goals might be eloquently written, but that doesn't mean they matter to you. Someone else's values statement might seem so clear-eyed and attractive, but that doesn't make it yours.
Read MoreWhile collaboration, alignment, decision making, and unit cohesion can all happen outside of meetings, well-run meetings are a very useful and effective place to accomplish those things.
Read MoreWhen your brain learns that there are blocks of time when it can reliably expand and take on bigger things, it's astonishing what happens.
Read MoreWhen you look back at the last month, or the last year, what patterns do you see? What are those habits, and are they serving you, as you are now?
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