These are my tools.

It took me a while to get here. At the last Rally (Rally!), I spent a disproportionate amount of time thinking about what makes a supportive workspace — for me, at least. Because that’s where the biggest gap is in my own version of the Book of You. So I...

And the Phrase of the Year prize goes to…

Alas, it’s not really the kind of prize one can look forward to, because it doesn’t go to a person. No, the Phrase of the Year prize goes to the phrase itself. And winning generally has to do with how useful a particular phrase is in resolving something in...

Five is for the five year plan!*

I am not a planning sort of person. But when I first started my company, I read seven hundred and fifty million websites about writing business plans. And at least ten library books and back issues of a bunch of online noozletters. The majority of these expressed the...

We don’t need to be big.

We don’t need to think big. We don’t need to do big things. We don’t need to be big. No. Let me say it like this: We don’t need to be big in order to be biggified. And certainly not any bigger than we want to. Some explaining. Some people think...

Side effects.

Interesting phenomenon. There’s this thing that happens while on your way to figuring something out. Or: on your way to getting something you want. It’s all the incredibly useful, unlikely and surprising things you manage to learn, discover, untangle, trip...
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