Greetings! And happy New Year! One of my goals for 2022 is to get more of the content that’s in my head out into places where people can read it or watch it. As I considered how I wanted to achieve that goal, I realized that this blog no longer serves my needs. So this […]
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Writing an Effective Request
You press “New” in your email editor and are faced with an empty message. You are drafting a request. Maybe you are asking a colleague to pick up a task. Maybe you’re petitioning your leadership to change a policy. Or perhaps you need something more personal, like a favor from a family member or help […]
Delegation is Overrated
We were just coming back from lunch, taking our seats in the circle once again. The leadership seminar that we were all attending was about to resume. As we assembled, we were chatting among ourselves (as you do). The topic of delegation came up. “Delegation is overrated,” I said, shaking my head. The faces around […]
It’s a Book!
Happy New Year! A funny thing happened on my way to inbox 0 last week: I wrote a book in 4 days. I didn’t mean to. And actually it’s not true to say that I wrote it in just 4 days. I assembled it in 4 days; I wrote it over 15 years. Allow me […]
What Software Has in Common with Schrödinger’s Cat
In 1935, physicist Erwin Schrödinger proposed a thought experiment to explain how quantum mechanics deals only with probabilities rather than objective reality. He outlined a scenario in which a cat is placed inside a sealed chamber. Inside the chamber is a flask containing a deadly substance. There is a small bit of radioactive material that […]