One by one, they file into the darkened chamber. Their feet don’t make a sound. Down the hallowed halls, Through the locked doors, Into our heart. Small children, single file, With a solemnity unnatural in kids their age. Teenagers without chips on their shoulders. Young parents, young teachers, young mothers Who found themselves in the …
Back in the dark ages before 2019, I read a great blog post by Stanford Professor, Steve Blank, about Organizational Debt. Organizational Debt includes, as Blank put it, “all the people/culture compromises made to ‘just get it done’”. This includes taking shortcuts in organizational design, such as how you structure and reward your teams. How you communicate …
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Earlier this year, I read a Malcolm Gladwell book, Talking to Strangers. I enjoy his work and was surprised that I missed this one, which came out in 2019. I suspect it was subsumed by current events happening at the time, overshadowed by politics. This one was different than earlier books I had read of …
There is a park near my office, which I used to walk through on my way to another office in a different life. The park is not very large - no more than a small city block - and my path stretched from the northeast corner to the southwest corner. It took me past a …
Quick: what is the first thing you should do when you get hired or promoted to a new job? First, three things not to do: Do Not fire someone to establish your authority. I worked with a dude once who, when promoted to a new job, established his authority by firing one person on the …
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