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2021
2020
- My Writing Year 2020
- Reflections On A Difficult Year
- Make Choices
- Know Where You Are Going
- Have Intention
- Accept Discomfort
- Immerse In Learning
- Go Deep
- Eschew Simple
- Embrace Complexity
- Thinking Out Loud
- Walking The Razor’s Edge
- Navigating A Not Quite Rational Planet
- Mapping The Levels Of What Gets Discussed
- It’s Levels All The Way Down
- Trust But Verify
- You Are As Ready As You Will Ever Be
- Tools For Facilitation
- When Tools Get In The Way
- When Meetings Aren’t Completely Meetings
- Getting To A Decision Of Sorts
- The Accordion Theory Of Decision Making
- Navigating Decision: Exploring What We Know
- Building Blocks Of Decision
- It’s The Decision, Stupid
- Engaging Strategically
- Black Lives Matter
- How Do We Have The Important Conversations?
- Where To: Deconstructing The Scenarios
- Where To: Contemplating Re-entry
- Where To: Planning For Uncertainty
- Where To: Where Do We All Go From Here?
- Where To: Planning Our Organizational Next Steps
- Where To: Planning Our Personal Next Steps
- Where To From Here?
- We Are All Liminal Now
- Hitting The Reset Button
- The Organizational Is The Personal
- Systems Are Good But Habits Are Essential
- Working Through Personal Change
- This Is What Change Feels Like
- Our Tools Get In The Way, Too
2019
- We Often Get In Our Own Way
- Defining What Done Looks Like
- Always Have A Why
- (Re)Finding Attention, Context And Meaning
- Don’t Force Closure Prematurely
- Tyranny Of Rules Or Freedom To Choose
- The Written Rules Get In The Way
- Because Those Are The Rules
- Calling Out The Undiscussables
- The Cultural Guide To Standing Out
- The Cultural Guide To Fitting In
- Working On You
- Simple Project Plans: A Thought Experiment
- The Power Of Simplicity
- Figuring Out What Matters
- Agile Will Not Save You
- Your Values Are Questionable
- The Vision Thing
- Your Mission, Should You Choose To Accept It
- Strategy Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Does
- Stay In Your Lane
- Where To From Here?
- How I Got To Here
- Don’t Be That Consultant
- Pick Up The Damn Phone
- There Are No Rules To Politics
- How I Am Trying To Rediscover Reading
- Do As I Say, Not As I Do
- Taking The Time To Plan
- Kill Your Darlings
- The Decisions Sponsors Have To Make
- The Sponsors We Need To See In The World
- So How Do You Keep Score?
- Got A KPI For That?
- You Can’t Make Me
- This Is How It Doesn’t Begin
- Who Do You Need To Be
- I’ve Got A Sneaking Suspicion That Something’s Wrong
- Planning For 2019
2018
- My Writing Year 2018
- A Year Gone Quite Mad
- Keep Going
- The More Process You Have, The Less You Need
- Work Is Visceral
- Do The Work
- Storytelling In The In-Between Spaces
- Inhabiting The In-Between Spaces
- Working In The In-Between Spaces
- Facilitation: A Peak Behind The Scenes
- Sussing Out Project Success
- Language Gets In The Way
- Change Is About Creating Language
- The Role And Place For A Devil’s Advocate
- Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys
- Facilitating In-Between Spaces
- Creating In-Between Spaces
- Principles Matter
- Good Enough Isn’t Good Enough
- Best Practices Aren’t Doing For You What You Think They Are
- We Are Fundamentally Predisposed To Ignore Context
- What Should I Avoid?
- Perseverance, Adaptability And Follow-Through
- We Should Stop Using Should
- You Can’t Implement Process And Get Culture
- Our Ideologies Undermine Us
- You Are One Pivot Away From Oblivion
- Reflections & Resolutions
2017
- Appropriate & Adaptation
- This Is All Make Believe
- There Is A Time For Planning
- The Lies We Tell Ourselves
- Being Part Of The Solution
- Culture Matters
- Finish That Book
- On Writing Badly
- On Writing
- What I Learned About Ego, Opinion And Work
- The Importance Of Why
- Successfully Navigating Process
- Embracing The Maturity Monster
- Embracing It Depends
- The Myth Of Best Practices
- I Am A Process Geek
- Developing Skills And Making Changes
- We Need A VP Of Chaos
- Everything In Its Place
- The Power Of Play
- So What?
- Tools In The Toolbox: A Diatribe
- Persistence, Perseverance And Follow-Through
2016
- A Year-End Reflection
- Doing The Work We Were Meant To Do
- First Do No Harm
- Cognitively Curious
- Constructive Feedback: Choosing To Be Better
- Simple Is Hard. It Is Also Essential
- Either You Can Or You Can’t
- Dreams & Reality
- Best Practices Usually Aren’t
- On Working Out Loud
- Scary Monstrous Overwhelming Deliverables
- Getting Organized, Staying Organized
- On Perfectionism And Pragmatism
- On Urgency: Ineffective, Optimal Or Overwhelming
- What Do You Think You Are Doing?
- What’s The Point Of Planning?
- Just What Are You Waiting For?
- Motive And Opportunity
- Done vs. Done Well
- Confidence vs. Competence
- As Authentic As I Wanna Be
- It Depends
- Busy vs. Engaged
- Problems Of Output Are A Problem Of Input
- Team Building: Not Separate, Not Different, Not Optional
- Deadlines Are Not Our Friends
- Produce Or Procrastinate
- The Capacity To Cope
- Doing The Work
- Holding Ourselves Accountable
- The Creative Value Of Boundaries
- It’s OK For People Not To Like You
- Making A Difference In A Time Like This
- When Purpose Just Means “Get This Done”
- Finding Purpose In The Salt Mines
- Purpose Isn’t Forever. It’s For Now.
- The Will To Lead
- Disrupting The Idea Of Disruption