We all like a bit of freedom—the chance to act on our own initiative. Much of the time that’s a good thing. Recently, however, I’ve been noticing just how much energy can be wasted if everyone is …
Learning or doing, which is the priority?
We need to keep learning e.g. about people; and we need to keep doing or delivering e.g. in a business. So which is more important? Delivering perhaps (it’s certainly likely to be more urgent), but …
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Refined or just reticent?
Or is it just natural human reticence that most of us could do with overcoming (though some were never troubled in this way)? For many, we need to work at putting ourselves out there to be judged. …
The subtlety is the point
Many situations seem to require being focused and broad at the same time; being specialist as well as generalist. That appears to be a contradiction, a dichotomy—one that needs very careful handling …
Setting and defending boundaries
Flexibility is a good thing. However... Sometimes—and about some things—we need to be inflexible: We need to have boundaries. We need to decide what we are going to accept and what we are not going …
Separating learning and evaluating
Learning something isn't the same as accepting it, necessarily. We don’t have to commit to agreeing with something before, or even as, we learn it. And often we can't evaluate some new piece of …