Everyone has a wall they hit with growth. The question is what to do once you get there? I’ve found these tools help me a ton as I look for ways to grow.
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High Performers and Self-Feeding
I had a conversation about growth with one of my staff the other day about the fact that he is incredibly smart, talented, and hardworking. That sounds like a good thing and in a vacuum it is. Here’s the thing though, he has currently refused
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Leveling Up is Your Decision
If you don’t know who Chris Lighty is, that’s ok. Chris was the business manager for most of the large names you would have heard of coming out of the HipHop scene from the late 90’s early 00’s. He was known for his incredible work ethic. The thing is, no one would have known about it if it weren’t for this one moment. There was a point he was
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Directionality of AI
I had a discussion with a friend over the weekend about AI. There are some assumptions about the value it adds and I wanted to address one of these in particular. The reality is that it’s not going to remove jobs so much as it will
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Extractors and Fillers
Steven Freidkin posted about the tension you find from being in the privileged place of being good at solving problems that also counterintuitively will bring you more problems to solve.
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Empty Space
How redlined are you?
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Empty space is one of the best gifts you can give yourself. Some call it shower time, I think in terms of social gears where this is gear 1. It’s a big deal. It’s in those moments that your brain is able to -
Robot Overlords Are Coming
The other day my app that manages my keyboard had a new button show up for an ai prompt builder. So now my keyboard has ai. 🤦♂️
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Calling Out The Gold Organizationally
When dealing in the non-profit space, there is a tendency for things to move slower than they should and for inner-organizational accountability not to exist. The way I’ve seen this play out is: (more…)
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Health and Boundaries – 2
Last time I posted I wrote about how I’ve finally been in a recovery state from depression. It took me about 10 months to gain all of my energy back and I’m still learning lessons from the time I was experience a depressed state.
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