My wife Jess was a second-grade teacher for five years. Whenever one of her students started acting up, her playbook was the same: Find out if the kid needs to eat or sleep, then help them do so. Jess uses the same technique with me when I am acting up. Because while I am not […]

When I started working at Lessonly, I believed I was responsible for my teammate’s feelings. This belief was born out of my internal struggles. I worried I wasn’t good enough […]

My coach and friend Jennifer Manning taught me about five levels of commitment. Everything you could possibly care about falls into one of these levels. […]

My coach and friend Jennifer Manning taught me about five levels of commitment. Everything you could possibly care about falls into one of these levels. […]

The lone genius who blazes through difficulty unphased can no longer be our standard for excellence. Teamwork, communication, shared intelligence—these are the profoundly human activities that propel us forward. […]

I interviewed Scott Dorsey last week for the upcoming Do Better Work video series. He shared a ton of gems, including this one: During his 10+ years as CEO of both ExactTarget and Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Scott read Jim Collins’s book Good to Great not once, not twice, but twenty times. In other words, he […]

A Lessonly manager walked into my office with a problem. A recurring handoff from one department to the next was breaking down and she didn’t know what to do about it. […]

Thank you to the thousands of people who made the launch of Do Better Work so special. I am overjoyed with the reception and so grateful. I’ll be sharing some excerpts from the book for the next few weeks. Here’s one from chapter 4, Ask Clarifying Questions: I know people who treat their intuition like […]

In 2018, I spent a lot of time writing a book. Today, that book is officially ready for you to read. […]

Here’s a list of this community’s personal development suggestions. As a reminder, this list is meant to inspire people who want to own their development but don’t know where to start or don’t know what to do next. […]

The idea of “What do you base that on?” is to know where a person’s input is coming from—as opposed to assuming. At that point, your own gut, experience, or research can help you decide if the input is worth following. […]

Many of us spent 12 to 16 years in school. Through it all, there was a syllabus telling us what skills we needed to develop to keep growing. Then we joined the working world and the syllabus vanished. For the first time, we were asked to own our development. […]