The stuff at the bottom of the to-do list

Your 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?

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleMay 31, 2023Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, performance, accountability, values

Standing alone at a cocktail party

So 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.

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleMay 17, 2023Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, performance, accountability, values

Peanut butter efficiency

Efficiency doesn't come from cutting people, it comes from cutting waste.

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleMay 3, 2023Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, reflection, layoffs

Before your next offsite

The best thing you can do. The magical transformative thing you can do to improve your odds that something amazing will happen. Is to think ahead.

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleApril 19, 2023Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, reflection, performance, business strategy, goals, startup, connection

Once more with feeling

It's early April, which means the first quarterly review for a lot of teams. If you haven't done yours yet, now's your chance.

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleApril 5, 2023Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, reflection, performance, business strategy, goals

Your pencils are sharp enough

We've learned that there are two types of work that are the most prone to getting stuck like this. And there are different tools we've found helpful for getting them unstuck

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleMarch 22, 2023Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, uncertainty, change, reflection, values, flexibility, startup, vacation

This will only take a minute

You can't live in hypervigilance. Well, let's rephrase that. You can, it's possible. But it's unpleasant to be around someone who has stayed in that state for too long.

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleMarch 8, 2023Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, psychological safety, performance, uncertainty, change, reflection, values, burn out

You can't stand under my umbrella

Staring 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.

We don't know what we don't know

Lowering 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.

My milkshake brings all the orgs to the yard

Someone 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.

When meetings are outlawed, only outlaws will hold meetings

While 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.

You need more of it than you think

When your brain learns that there are blocks of time when it can reliably expand and take on bigger things, it's astonishing what happens.

NewsletterJohnathan NightingaleDecember 28, 2022Melissa Nightingale, Johnathan Nightingale, Raw Signal Group, RSG, Worlds Best Newsletter, Management, Leadership, Management Training, Leadership Training, psychological safety, performance, uncertainty, power, change, reflection, business strategy, goals

Year of the pulse

When 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?

The strategists, the smugglers, and the silent

Effective strategic planning is an alignment tool. Alignment as in the whole team. Everyone.

Behind the scenes at the magic kingdom

We don't need it to be all doom and gloom. But what does it mean when there's no longer space to talk about what's working and what isn't?

Who gets Humperdinck?

For many bosses, it's clear that the more you look and talk and vibe like Elon, the more permission you'll get to be capricious and abusive and cynical.

What to do when you're all out of puffins

The bullshit is supposed to be in service of something. Ideally, say, work that you're proud of, whose impact matters to you, and which allows you to live a life you enjoy.

Doing all the work

Accountability is a big, heavy word. It manages to be about management, and feedback, and operational excellence, and culture all at once.

Let us feed you

Delegation fails at work when the hand-off is incomplete, and also when the hand-off is too complete. And once you know that, you can get better at this fast.

You've changed

The solution is to acknowledge and process the change. To integrate it and come back to something newly coherent. And the way you do that is reflection.

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