Twenty-five years ago, I moved from the Midwest to NYC. I was incredibly excited about my new job and everything I had to learn in the Big Apple. I experienced many “firsts” that first week: My first time walking down the street and realizing I had to add a skip to my walk in order…
How To Consistently Execute Your Strategy
Are you confident that everyone in your company understands their role in accomplishing your strategy? If you’re like most leaders, the answer is no. Or worse, “I’m not sure.” The good news is that the New Year is a great time to review your strategy, whether it’s a new fiscal year or not. I have…
Nobody Is That Busy: Five Years Later
In 2014, when I was working at Twitter, I wrote a blog post called Nobody Is That Busy. At the time, I felt there was an epidemic of “crazy busyness”—of which I was very much a part, but was not wanting to be. The post centered upon an epiphany I’d had that it’s not the…
New Year. New Systems.
It was Wednesday morning, January 4, at 6 AM. Britney Spears was singing loudly through the speakers, “Work, Bitch.” That was indeed what every person at the gym was doing. There wasn’t an open treadmill or stationary bike available. The usual space for deadlifts was overflowing. Trying to stake out a spot at the gym…
My Learning Manifesto: What I #learnthruwork
Work is our best learning lab to become more of who we are meant to be—if we let it. I have learned the most about myself and others through work situations. Some of it was hard. All of it made me better. This is my #learnthruwork manifesto. It is a living document of what I…
A FIRM PERSUASION
“To have a firm persuasion in our work—to feel that what we do is right for ourselves + good for the world at the exactly same time— is one of the great triumphs of existence.”
~DAVID WHYTE
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