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Were you built for Joyless Collaboration?

I have a real bias toward teams that know how to laugh. That is partly a cultural belief and partly […]

UPRIGHT: Realizing that half your professional limitations were printed by people who are no longer in the building. There is

Sometimes, the most impressive thing we do at work is remain upright and answer emails in complete sentences. The last

Bruce Lee said, “Be like water,” which sounds serene until you realize he was also describing how to survive modern

UPRIGHT: Realizing you assigned far too much meaning to something that was, at best, lightly suggestive.REVERSED: Continuing to treat an

Last night my client’s coaching session turned quickly on a sentence I suspect many adults carry around like a default

Some of us do not know what to do with an easy win. We say we want things to go

UPRIGHT: The disciplined pause between stimulus and story.REVERSED: Letting one vague message become the board chair of your entire nervous

“I don’t let myself get too excited.”A client said that with the calm confidence of someone announcing a retirement contribution.

One of the more misleading things that can happen in a workplace is when everything starts looking calm. The meetings