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how are you?
Rand nails 1 on 1s. Just go read it. Your people are your greatest strength, your greatest asset, the most precious thing. They’re constantly looking at your actions and lack of action, your voice or lack of voice, a thousand tiny signals you give to the people you manage that let them know how you…
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the balance of leadership
There’s a great post on the Reforge blog about people manager responsibilities that lays out the balance of being a manager quite nicely. It’s a balance I’ve always tried to achieve but never really put into words. I love teams. I love working in a team, I love creating teams, leading teams, helping craft a…
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Get used to being uncomfortable
After going through the Certified Scrum Master class (I am fancy now!), I’ve been re-evaluating how projects are ‘managed’ at work. We are not fully agile, but we’ve been slowly applying some of the agile concepts and structures to our workflows. In an agency environment, where projects are fast, furious, and many at the same…
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Who is going to look out for me?
Expanding spiritual capacity requires subordinating our own needs to something beyond our self-interest. Because we often perceive our own needs as urgent, shifting attention away from them can prompt very primitive survival fears. If I truly focus my attention on others, we worry, who is going to look out for me? — The Power of…