Insights
This is where I share what I’m thinking, what I’m reading, and what the leaders and organizations I work with are wrestling with.
A few things you’ll find here:
- Hey Babs: leaders write in with real challenges and I respond with what I actually think. No hedging. Anonymity protected.
- The List: a periodic round-up of the readings, viewings, and listenings that have caught my attention. The librarian in me cannot help it.
- Reflections and Musings: longer essays and shorter takes on the complicated, fascinating, occasionally absurd business of leading well.
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April 9th List
Mary Oliver, Gorbachev, Thatcher, Mr. Rogers, Court Jesters, and Bhangra 1 The Guardian article, “The one question we all need to ask ourselves –...
Hey Babs: Deputy CEO, Fires, and Not Wanting to Quit
Hey Babs, Two years ago, I took on the role of Deputy CEO of a mid-size organization. Before this I was the manager for community programs where I...
Musings on Rejection
Reject Better Rejection is a common work experience. We need to be good with rejection as it isn’t possible to accept all ideas, proposals, job...
Reflections on Boundaries and Armour
When I first heard someone at some conference somewhere talk about the difference between boundaries and armour, I felt defensive and dismissive,...
March 12th List
AI, honesty, rudeness, curiosity, and Bank of Dave Sort of didn’t want to include this in the list as I feel AI inundated these days (do you?), but...
Hey Babs: Restructured out of a job and feeling great
Hey Babs, I think you would be interested in something that happened to me recently. My company merged with another and as suspected there were...
Musings on Slowing Down
Spring is here. The snow is melting and there is a busyness about town, almost as if folks are both surprised by the change in the season and in a...
Reflections on Stress and Time
“Stress is a perverted relationship to time.” John O’Donohue. I wrote this quote down last year while listening to a 2008 conversation recorded...
February 13th List
Employee happiness, right kind of wrong, performance obsession, and curiosity. We need to talk about this. Workplace health benefits don’t move the...
Hey Babs: Promotion and Cold Feet
Getting curious and friendly with inside signals. Hey Babs, I pursued and achieved the promotion!!! But I don’t think I want the job anymore. I have...
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