Why Does Getting Feedback Suck?
You may enjoy this short, summary video. Literature is devoted to how managers should deliver feedback: Creating a context, “feedback sandwiches” (good news, bad news, good news –in that order) […]
Being a Beginner
I’ve just begun learning how to play the violin. It is something I’ve wanted to do for most of my life. Even as a child, when my parents decided that […]
Mayor Mike Nutter on Leadership
He was a 2-term Mayor of Philadelphia, the President of the U.S. Conference of Mayors and is now a professor at Columbia University. He was kind enough to have a […]
Fault-Finding-Leaders
Periodically, every one of us starts finding a team-member or friend irksome. But it is more than that. We start seeing them in a different –far more negative — light. Everything they […]
Do We Really Need to Meet?
Almost everyone I know is inundated in meetings. Is that true of your workday as well? When I ask a client to tell me what is on their calendar, usually, […]
Time To Work
When we think about organizations and the teams that comprise them, we typically think in one of two ways. We either consider the specific function of an individual or team, […]
What Do You Do For Work? Video
We rarely think of the explicit behaviors that we perform to do our work. But they are critically important. Is it writing, talking, coding, planning? They are all different and […]
We’re So Close I Can’t Hear You
Do you truly know your best friend? What about your wife, or your closest colleague? If you are like most people, you probably emphatically nodded yes. We feel like the […]
First, Ask Why
When I was serious about triathlons, I learned a term from my running coach: Junk Miles. Junk miles are runs that have no purpose. They wear on your body and […]
The Defense Against Uncertainty
We can’t assume that anything we believe now will still be true in a month. But we can craft an oasis of reliability within our own control.