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In past years, I've done personal and professional strategic planning and goal setting with a focus on goals first at a high level based around desires like Connection (Relationship), Purpose, Impact, and Service, and created goals under those headers. This year, instead, I reflected on what I wanted
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Several years ago, I had as great mentor who recommended the book The Goal, by Eliyahu Goldratt (also available as a graphic novel these days). I was chatting with someone recently about their team struggling, because their product team wasn't refining and prioritizing the backlog fast enough to
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I was at a professional event recently and met an incredibly successful person who was sharing some stories of his career journey. His path included twice losing obscene amounts of money, much more than most people make in their whole lives, and yet now being successful a third time. One
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I'm a big fan of listening to audiobooks and podcasts, and struggle to find the time to read the articles and PDF docs I want to prioritize that aren't available in audio format. I recently found (thanks to a sponsorship on the Daring Fireball blog) a
lessons-learned
I recently read a longform article High Agency In 30 Minutes by George Mack, which was an incredible ride! In a world of infintite entertainment, so much of it so tempating (see Cal Newport's concept of Ultra-Processed Content), Mack's article was an emotional rollercoaster with an
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While we live in an era of impressive Generative AI capabilities regarding graphics (ChatGPT and other GenAIs have some capabilities here and Napkin looks impressive regarding diagram creation), my recommendation when you're trying to think through a conceptual graphic is still to use PowerPoint to explore different diagram
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After hearing Oliver Burkeman on a podcast last month, I listened to his Meditations for Mortals audiobook and was blown away -- it felt like he was talking directly to me through the book. As I listened to the book, I was struck with the (incredibly rare for me) desire
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A few months ago I saw Scott Galloway's impactful TED talk How the US is Destroying Young People's Future -- he makes some impactful points with some powerful graphs: I then ran into this podcast (see below) interview of him, where Scott talks about how American
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I listened to this podcast interview (Art of Manliness podcast) with Oliver Burkeman recently, and it was great. As someone who loves to make lots of long lists (e.g., todo lists, books to read, browser tabs to read), which is overwhelming, I really enjoyed the idea of shifting how
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There are many great assessment models, and associated tools, to understand your personality, working style, and/or leadership style. Using a standard tool across your organization for your leaders is incredibly powerful to help leaders understand how to work together better, and how to consider candidates for key positions. Here&
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Through a great friend, I got connected with Jennifer Jacobs last year, who co-founded Connect Our Kids. She has a fascinating journey, including serving in the military in roles relating to nuclear operations. After reading a magazine article about the challenges for social workers to identify relatives of children in
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I was recently listening to a great HBR IdeaCast podcast about interview styles. The author, Anna Papalia, was sharing that she identified four different interview styles, but both interviewers and interviewees use, and how we should be more aware of those styles, and how they affect our assessments of candidate