There was a hard call to be made. And Jeff made it. That's not abnormal. Jeff makes a lot of hard calls. He has trained his whole life for just this moment. And this one just went very badly.
Read MoreThe number one rule of leadership development is that there’s no growth without reflection. So come sit a spell and let’s reflect. How’s that two-shapes-of-humans theory actually playing out?
Read MoreWe have been to a lot of corporate all-hands, gatherings, conferences, and un-conferences. Some of them have been incredibly well-run. Some of them have been a rolling shit-show. But holy shit what if you did this?
Read MoreThere is some design work to do if we want to build new connections, and rebuild the ones we miss.
Read MoreYou're just reminding them that it's a fair expectation that they would try to resolve it directly.
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 MoreThe neat part about client-ready and exec-ready hides in the 3000 words behind the hyphenation.
Read MoreWe tell bosses that if they choose management as a career, every aspect of the human condition will at some point show up for someone they manage.
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 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 MoreCulture handbooks don't produce culture, people do.
Read MoreYour team might need better process as you scale. But do they really need you to write a bunch of documentation that you hate, and that they won't read?
Read MoreSo much of the hard work of management is unsexy. Unglamorous. It is a grind, and often thankless. And nowhere is this more true than in performance reviews.
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