Resilience
Improve effectiveness by tidying up
Tidying up your mental space is as important as tidying up your physical space for good concentration. Here are five ways to do it.
Life
Fitting it all in two cars
Nothing is permanent. So how do you decide what to take with you when life sends you in another direction?
Communication
Good writing: don’t bubblewrap truth
The truth is the truth. Good writing doesn’t cover it in bubblewrap like corporate-speak, diplomatic platitudes, or complex sentences.
Courage
Don’t throw out the lightbulb just because it showed you an uncomfortable truth
Don’t throw away the light bulb because it showed you an uncomfortable truth. Transparency doesn’t build trust. Transparency creates awareness; actions build trust.
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Decisions
How not to jump to conclusions: ask what else could be true
To avoid making rash decisions on incomplete information, it’s important to pause and ask yourself what else could be true.
Decisions
Don’t throw away your umbrella in a rainstorm
Don’t be the type of person who throws out their umbrella in a rainstorm because they stopped getting wet. And don’t put that type of person in leadership.
Uncategorized
Same water, different water. It’s all in the perspective.
It’s all the same water, but go in from one side you’re safe, and go in from the other side you’re in danger. There’s a metaphor in here somewhere.
Communication
The simplest tool for empathetic leadership: Don’t ask why.
“Why” is a way to get answers, but it’s also an accusatory, aggressive question to ask. Empathetic leaders don’t ask why. Here’s why.
Leadership
The best leaders understand motivation. Push, pull, self-propel, or drift. Yes to all of it.
Leaders need to understand the four basic types of motivation and how they can exploit them all to get their teams moving forward.