Several years ago, I worked with a woman who was very annoying. She micromanaged everything. She insisted on seeing every memo that I sent out that might possibly be implied to reference her department. I made the mistake of sending them to her and then she edited them by printing them and writing changes until …
Two days ago, I worked the election as a pollworker. Each time I do this, I learn something new. The last time I did this, I made friends with the other pollworkers and connected with at least one of them afterwards. This time, the experience was different. I was in a different polling place, with …
What do you do when your team has a lot of ideas but can't seem to agree on a path forward? You need them to narrow in but the discussion and ideas continue to get wider and wider? How can you take things to the next step? I recently worked with a client who faced …
A new thing that I've taken up since being confined by Covid and my own overwhelming fears, is Futures Thinking. I like how it makes me feel, how it provokes curiosity and creativity in ways that watching TV or baking yet another cake does not. So I signed up for a class on Coursera, who …
I’ve been thinking lately about the Jared Diamond book that I read last year, Upheaval. In this book, he analyzes the resilience of several nations in the face of crisis, through a lens based on characteristics that describe how people respond to personal crisis. Here is the lens he came up with: National consensus that …
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