Changing Our Questions
Last week’s blog, Less Wrong Tomorrow, clearly struck a chord. The responses came quickly, and many were vulnerable and personal. One reader wrote about caring for her aging father: “We have so many decisions to make, but Dad seems paralyzed. We’re...
Less Wrong Tomorrow
One of my favorite workshops to facilitate is strategic planning, and one of the most common reactions I hear during those sessions sounds something like this: “How can we plan when leadership keeps changing direction?” “We don’t even have a finalized budget yet.”...
The Mistakes We Manufacture Under Pressure
I walked into Anna’s office 11 years ago for a coaching session that didn’t happen. Again. It was the fourth time “something had come up.” After six weeks of my showing up, we still hadn’t had a single real undistracted, productive, focused session. Anna worked in a...
The Mistakes We’ve Stopped Seeing
For the past few weeks, I’ve been writing about mistakes—how we make them, how we respond, and how leaders can guide their teams through them. This week, I want to address perhaps the most dangerous type of all mistakes: the mistakes that have become normalized....
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