Thoughts on Management

What you do about people determines performance and culture

Your being nice might be the thing that stops your business from shining. “The Law of Crappy People states: For any title level in a large organization, the talent on…

If it didn’t work out last time, why would you do the same again?

If you try something and it works out badly, would you learn to do it differently next time? Oh the tedium of generic questions. Because the answer certainly shouldn’t be…

If you’re stressed at work, might you be better suited to another job?

Too much stress for anyone at work is unsustainable, and shouldn’t be normalised. But if there is regularly too much stress, it’s not necessarily the employer’s fault. Sometimes, hard to…

Your team wants you to be nice. That’s a problem.

There's a huge disconnect between your team's desire for you to be nice, and your need to be kind. We need to close that gap if our team is to…

Why don’t we tell people to stress?

Why do we treat stress as such an evil? Why is the reaction to a co-worker who is stressed always one of sympathy and advice how to get out of…
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