Decisions & Outcomes (#96)
Decisions give us clarity on a path forward, outcomes are the results that stem from our execution along our set course.
Principles - Part 2 (#95)
Defining and documenting our values and principles are critical steps for shaping our behaviors, strategy, and future direction. Here are the second half of our dozen core principles.
Principles - Part 1 (#94)
Defining and documenting our values and principles is a critical first step in shaping our behaviors, strategy, and future direction.
Generative AI & Headcount (#93)
No company today has enough staff to do all of the work they have identified. So why would we use generative AI as a way to zero out our wage costs? The disrupters, the market winners, will see this as an opportunity to free up human labor to tackle the backlog.
Three types of Empathy (#92)
Cooperation requires connection, and connection requires empathy. We must meet our employees where they are — as people with outside interests, pressures, fears, and ambitions.
Storytelling & Papañca (#91)
There comes a point when emotional empathy no longer serves us if it prevents us from having the necessary conversation.
When to Break the Rules (#90)
We should break our own rules when following them will violate our first principles. The rule is a proxy to the value we defined, and a rule is only as good as our ability to adhere to our values when we execute it.
Jackie Robinson Day: Larry Doby Edition
Sports is meant to be entertainment, an escape from daily toils, our common love of the game binding us. Yet how can we be entertained when we look on the playing field and are so easily reminded about the lack of opportunity, the systems that create racial and gender bias?
Revisiting Imposter Phenomenon (#89)
We aren't imposters. Feeling like an imposter is an experience we suffer due to the environment and culture we operate in and not a flaw of self. We are enough.
Vision & Recovery (#88)
If star athletes have a common weakness it is when something breaks down mentally rather than physically. It's in those moments that they are no longer able to allow their mind to run on a kind of high-performance autopilot.
Humility & Ambition (#87)
The best candidate for any job needs only three prevailing qualities: aptitude, attitude, and willingness.
Agency & Resiliency (#86)
Reporting shallow statistics about the number of under represented employees tells us nothing. Diversity initiatives fail if they do not fundamentally alter the institutions power relationships.