If you want to make difficult conversations less difficult, these two stanzas are for you. […]

For whatever reason, we’ve been conditioned to view tension and conflict as signs of dysfunction. Feeling or witnessing them makes us feel as though things are damaged. […]

“We have difficult conversations” is one of Lessonly’s values. It is an incredibly important ambition for our team. When done well, difficult conversations foster psychological safety and give our team a significant competitive advantage […]

The Fundamental Attribution Error is a psychosocial phenomenon that affects everyone with a pulse. It’s what happens when you attribute your own errors to your circumstances and the errors of others to their character. […]

It is entirely human to feel tension and conflict in high-growth environments—in fact, tension is a naturally occurring phenomenon. But teams that are able to disagree, lean into the tension, and healthily work towards a solution have an under-appreciated superpower. […]

The more I learn about competitive sports, the more I see how inherently good they are at teaching a very important life lesson: Challenge is the best catalyst for growth, so it should be embraced. […]

Doing Better Work is as much about 1% productivity enhancements as it is about long-term strategic approaches. So today I want to get really tactical and share two workflow adjustments that I get a lot of value from. I hope they help you like they help me. […]

As a society, we herald those people who bloom ahead of our expectations. We’re amazed by the 10-year-old in the pre-calculus class, the 32-year-old director of the Oscar-winning film, and the 24-year-old city council member with presidential aspirations. […]

I just finished reading Three Big Questions for a Frantic Family by Patrick Lencioni. I am a Lencioni fan, so I was grateful when I received the book as a wedding present. The long and short of the book is this: We often don’t run our families like we run our work. The vision, focus, and planning […]

F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis were contemporaries in the 1920s. Fitzgerald lives on as the author of the “Great American Novel” The Great Gatsby, a book that continues to inspire modern literature and blockbuster films. Lewis lives on in relative obscurity. In their time, it was a far different story. Fitzgerald struggled both critically and […]

Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? The very act of making decisions depletes our ability to make them well. So how do we navigate a world of endless choice? Often, decision-making is learning and learning is decision-making. This read is a must-read for all of you who want to be better teachers and learners. One […]

The fewer choices we have, the happier we’ll be. At least, that’s what modern research suggests. It all seems contrary to the way we’re wired, but if it’s true, we have some big changes to make. From a software perspective, it means product managers and technologists need to do a better job building good decisions into their […]