What If It’s About Mirth?
What if all this is supposed to be fun, light, simple? What if that knot in our gut (or wherever) was not something telling us …
Getting A Job (Sometimes) Without Experience
After yesterday’s post about organizations not needing to hire based on experience, a reader rightly asked about being on the other side of this transaction, …
Why We Needn’t Hire The Experienced
Back in day, when things were more Industrial-Age-same-same, we could hire people based on their experience. The question, “Have they done this successfully elsewhere?” was …
Get More Productive with Well-Formed Tasks
When we come across a poorly-formed task on our task list, we either slow down to figure out what to do or just skip it …
Anticipate Something Good
What if, every time we caught ourselves anticipating something bad that might happen, we stopped and started anticipating something good that we would want to …
Model, Test, Learn, Repeat
Consider the theoretical physicist. She works intently, often for decades, on models and equations she hopes will better describe our universe. Yet the results from …
What’s Your Story?
Our successes today and tomorrow tend to follow the story we’ve been telling ourselves. Sometimes our stories are not front-of-mind. But we know by how …
Go Ahead, Look Deeper
Why are you doing what you are doing in your work and life? If we scratch just beneath the surface of our answers to this …
Thriving on the Care and Goodwill of Others
Most people are genuinely good. They are kind and helpful. They want to succeed and want us to succeed. For many unimportant reasons, these people …
Leader, Know Thyself
As great leaders, we understand ourselves. We know our strengths, blind spots, and biases. And we consistently grow ourselves. We do all this for three …