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The Manager's README isn't just documentation—it's a mirror that creates accountability between your leadership intentions and actions, fostering trust through visible growth and authentic imperfection.
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In this exploration of leadership philosophy, I examine how embracing chaos—rather than fighting it—can transform our approach to organizational management. Drawing parallels between ancient wisdom and modern leadership challenges, the piece challenges conventional views of order and control. By ref
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Even in our most pragmatic moments, something elusive tugs at the edges of management. We create schedules, set metrics, establish procedures—all necessary elements of organizational life. Yet in the spaces between these structured elements, we sense something more fluid, less containable. This tens
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While others talk, you listen. When you speak, what you say cuts through distraction and confusion. You notice things: voices that waver, hands that tighten, and eyes that glance away. When you lead, you let others figure things out for themselves.
Essays
Essay 002
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In response to an article in The Economist about the need for middle managers, Michele Zanini writes: Just because the ladder has fewer rungs doesn't mean leadership opportunities are scarce-quite the opposite. By giving people the ability to gain influence (and compensation) based on accomplishment as opposed
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Pluralities of people come in three kinds I read this on Alan Jacobs' blog: One of the most fundamental ideas that Auden held in the 1950s — the period of his career that I’m working on right now — was that “pluralities” of people come in three kinds. From an
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You don’t. You never do. Leading by example is based on a faulty assumption: that people will see only the behavior you want them to see and follow only the behavior you want them to follow. News flash: the people who work with you see everything. They see not
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I'm a jazz fan, always have been. And I'm a Monk fan. Monk created this list when a musician joined his band for a multiple-week gig. I encourage the managers I work with to have a readme document for themselves and to have a structured,
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Leadership is about doing something new or better, whether a simple process improvement or a transformation. It is more about reframing for improvement. It likely calls upon people to learn new skills and shift beliefs. Our tendency to ascribe leadership to individuals that hold a formal entitlement as head of
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Sir Nicholas George Winton is a British humanitarian who organised the rescue of 669 mostly Jewish children from German-occupied Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War. Winton found homes for them and arranged for their safe passage to Britain. Winton kept his humanitarian exploits under wraps for
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An excellent article from Ed Yong ((https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/09/pandemic-intuition-nightmare-spiral-winter/616204/, accessed 200911)) begins like this: Army ants will sometimes walk in circles until they die. The workers navigate by smelling the pheromone trails of workers in front of them, while