The greatest of all choices is choosing whether or not to be a good person.
We need to take the time to understand our superpowers, as individuals or as an organization, so we have the best chance to create surplus.
Being part of a collective story is a very special type of human experience that brings a deep, grounded, and peace-giving joy.
What I need, desperately, is to be here.
If you set the top 15 metrics, that the country committed to for several decades, what would they be?
The question of how to raise good children starts with figuring out how to be a good person myself.
The biggest error of coaching - not being intentional about it - can be avoided by dedicating real time to it.
Don’t waste the magic of Saturday mornings with work.
The two strategies - providing special attention and treating everyone consistently well - need to be in tension.
I believe that we all feel invisible, to some degree. How we react to that perceived invisibility is an important choice.
This is an OKR-based model to define what a good manager actually produces. It’s hard to be good at something without beginning with the end in mind, after all.
There are men that are trying to reimagine what it means to be a man. As in, how to be a different and hopefully better kind of man.
And we are doing this without role models to draw from. We are breaking ground, and it is remarkable.
To scale impact, every team leader has to build their team. Building a team is hard, but it’s not complicated.
To set us up for success, they key thing to do is get specific about the role, and the top 2-3 things we can’t compromise on in a candidate.
Learning how to win ugly is an essential skill. And yet, I feel like the world has conspired to keep me from learning it.
I don’t want to make noise about the sacrifices I’ve made, but I don’t want my sacrifices to be insulted by ungrateful children. I don’t want my children feel deep shame or know intense suffering, but I also want them to have opportunities to build inner strength. In some ways I need to tell stories about sacrifice, but in other ways that’s counterproductive.
What’s a parent to do?
It seems to me that a simple, relatively cheap, way to radically change the performance of an organization is to take consequential processes that are implicit and make them simple, clear, and explicit.
If we’re lucky, the Great Resignation may only be the beginning.
Hot take: the shift to remote work will finally expose bad managers, and help good managers to thrive.
Radha was never born or conceived. Yet, I know she is my sister. I hope our sons realize the gravity of the gift - brotherhood - they have.
Applying Rawls’s veil of ignorance to management, executives, and companies.
Once I actually thought about it, I resented sports less and wish the domains I care about - politics, the arts, and religion - took a page from the sports industry.