That this passes for visionary leadership and is rewarded by the market is the surest sign we’re into some totally upside-down-face corporate groupthink.

If we want work to be better, we need possibility, not futility.

You can drop a lot of frogs in that pot and very few will feel their feet get warm.

What would you do if you had a week to just clear out backlog?

If one more exec pastes one more link about workplace dips in productivity, the managers are going lose it.

You can feel lucky to have a job and still want your work to have reasonable hours, pay equity, and the flexibility to deal with family matters on a Wednesday afternoon.

The cure for a structurally overwhelmed team is a better structure. It’s clarity about what matters most, and permission to hand off or put down the work that doesn’t.

Do this work long enough and every aspect of the human condition will at some point show up for someone you manage. Or for yourself.

Either, we’re running as fast as we can toward clear targets. Or we’re running as fast as we can without clear targets.

The past few years we’ve swung wildly between utopian and dystopian visions.

Culture handbooks don’t produce culture, people do.

You can’t live in hypervigilance. Well, let’s rephrase that. You can, it’s possible. But it’s unpleasant to be around someone who has stayed in that state for too long.