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Cliff Hazell: Building a successful organization is a mix of doing new/novel things, old things, and very old things. I think we usually spend too much time talking about the new and novel as if it’s a silver bullet. Doing the old and very old things consistently and
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From The Atlantic: In some [groups], you grow up with the expectation that it's OK to ask for anything at all, but you gotta realize you might get no for an answer. This is Ask Culture.In Guess Culture, you avoid putting a request into words unless you&
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From the CIA’s Simple Sabotage Field Manual, here is an 8-point plan for disrupting meetings and conferences. You will probably recognize some of these from your own circumstances: (2) Make ‘speeches’. Talk as frequently as possible and at great length. Illustrate your ‘points’ by long anecdotes and accounts
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Also, it's time to close our inboxes
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Again, this month it's a combination of research and practical insights, some timely and some timeless: * Gallup survey results and excellent questions about creating a hybrid workplace, * A challenge that will have you rethink how you introduce yourself, * On how managers handle their emotional struggles at work... and
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Don't be a hero nor a technocrat, be this instead
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things to do: doing nothing and slacking off
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I hope that Canadian readers had a good Canada Day (July 1st) and that U.S. readers had a happy 4th of July. In most conversations I have with managers these days the topic of returning to the office is on everyone’s mind… and also on their calendars! It’
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First systems as important as first hires Important, yet often forgotten: “While I definitely agree that people are your most important asset, I’ve noticed that most content doesn't talk as much about the systems. What I don't come across as often is a read about
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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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Success without community is meaningless.
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Data: we need a better metaphor Metaphors shape the way we think about things. [current] metaphors imagine public data as a huge, passive, untapped resources - lakes of stuff that only has value when it is extracted and processed. But this framing completely removes the individual agency that created the stuff