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Cocooning
When a caterpillar forms a cocoon, a lovely butterfly emerges. When leaders do that, usually unaware, things aren't as pretty… 🦋🐛
Options
Take it or leave it? Nope, life's more analog than that.
Your Two Cents
What you think actually matters. Probably even more than you think.
Too Cozy
Where has a decade of advancements gotten you?
Debugging Turnover
How can you tell if you're suffering from high turnover and how do you address it?
Impact Drift
When a team seems to be busy doing things that don't make sense, you cannot just blame that team.
Dog And Pony Shows
Companies operating as if it's the Wild West are bad, and so are those with big, cumbersome processes. But you know what's worse?
Leap of Faith
Sometimes, you have to stand outside of arm's reach.
Expanding Minds
Expanding a mind is a one-way street. Use that!
Keeping Time
Ding! Another quarter is gone. How is annoying my wife on vacation connected to teams with a sense of urgency? You're going to have to listen to this one to find out!
Comfort Zoning
Are you moving out of your comfort zone or just digging in deeper?
Rolling Responsibilities
Many aren't simply given roles and responsibilities. Does that mean you should spend your career floating with a wraith?
Yestradamus
Do you have enough people who speak up in your organization?
Cheese Movers
Are you one to automatically deject any incoming changes? Three tips to becoming more of a cheese mover.
Healthy Innovation
What can we learn from tapas restaurants about innovation in our business?
Claiming Your Turf
Start standing behind your principles.
Vinegar Cellars
Are you waiting too long? Are you actively spoiling what you have?
Action Items to Items Actioned
Action items are a dime a dozen. How about actually doing the action?
Leadership Agenda
For effective meetings, you should go in with an agenda. For an effective leadership role, you should have an agenda, too!
Customer Success Success
Customer Success success. That's not a glitch in the matrix—that's what you should be telling your R&D team.
Aligning Motives
When there's an issue with an unhappy employee, many leaders succumb to external motivation tricks. A pay raise, titles, that sort of stuff. Too bad it simply doesn't ...
Tech Theft
When we cross the line from managing debt to stealing time from the company!
Mid Year Review
2022 is 50% over. Are you on track to make this an amazing year?
Ask Or You Shan't Receive
At least until we get neural links in all conference rooms, you can't expect to get things if you don't ask for them.
Mistaking Chaos for Autonomy
Do you really have autonomy, or are you, in fact, just playing by yourself at the little kids' table?
Would You Like Fries With That?
Are you an order taker or a leader?
Meatspace
Let's talk about what's happening around us.
Mea Culpa
Everyone makes mistakes. I made at least five so far today. What are you doing about it?
Do Repeat Yourself
Coding lore says we shouldn't repeat ourselves. Sometimes we should. Sometimes we should!
Seeking Assurances
If you're trying to ensure that everything is bolted down before starting your journey, you'll eventually realize you never really get going.
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