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Having It All... Just Kidding
Ironically, the point of Quinn Mills' "Having It All...and Making It Work" is that we cannot, in fact, have it all. Thankfully, he provides guidance for how to make the balance work.
Changing Your Default Leadership Approach
Lessons from Multipliers by Liz Wiseman on putting yourself in a leadership straitjacket to change behaviors.
Resolutions Are So 2020
A better approach to setting goals for the year: an Operating Plan.
A Family Strategy Review
How to use an annual strategy retreat to evaluate your relationships and family life.
Radical Empathy
It’s much easier to react quickly, to defend ourselves and condemn others, or to enforce our ingoing beliefs. It’s much harder to really listen and find what might be right about the other person’s perspective.
Philosophy of Strategic Time
If an organization moves to an Agile Strategy rather than a fixed, say, “five year strategic plan,” how should it think about updating the plan? The OODA Loop.
Is Vulnerability Just for White Guys?
The leadership literature says that leaders should show vulnerability. But can black leaders be vulnerable in the workplace? It's tricky.
Applying Strategy to Relationships
In Unleashed, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss argue that leaders should make real choices in strategy. And they suggest that we can do the same in our family lives.
A “Good Enough” Planning Approach
Rather than an arbitrary “five year plan,” here’s an approach to creating strategic plans that are only “good enough” and to putting energy into robust planning routines.