A Way Out Of Office Haiku
Natural beauty. West Coast lifestyle is awesome. Vacation vibes now. – A haiku of good times and good vibes from the Horn Family vacation.
Evaluating Costs
Leaders are evaluating costs and making decisions pretty much every day. Here is a list of all the costs (more or less) that you should consider when making decisions. Evaluating costs Every choice we make incurs and activates costs. This…
Sense-Making Needs to Be in Your Toolkit
Sense-making enables leaders and teams to understand what just happened and figure out what to do next – ideally we use this skill to process positive experiences, like when a crush visibly returns our affection or we get a job…
What ‘Chopped’ Can Teach Us About Feedback
Chopped is available for streaming on Disney+ Canada and I’m here for it. Even though most of us would rather eat a mystery basket of sweet breads, tarragon, cotton candy, and lima beans than give someone difficult feedback. Chopped, where…
How to Break Toxic Culture at Work
Between April and September 2021, more than 24 million American employees left their jobs, which was a record. More than half of Canadian employees would rather quit their job than return to the office full-time. As the Great Resignation rolls…
A Tour de Friendship Haiku
Long, Muppets bike ride. We call it Tour de Friendship. How did I gain weight?! – A haiku (with photos) about how eight middle-aged men invested in friendship and longevity by riding hundreds of kilometers together on bikes.
What Tough Loves Teaches Us
We’ve all received tough love at some point in our lives. Whether we hear from spouses who have feedback about our facial hair, coaches who know we can do better, or managers who need to inspire teams to achieve their…
Three Agile Planning Tips from the Rebel Alliance
The hit series Andor wrapped up a few weeks ago and I’ve been processing it’s the end of perhaps the greatest iteration of the Star Wars universe/galaxy on screen. Over the last few weeks, I’ve consumed dozens of hours of…
How to Get the Most out of Information Interviews
For over 25 years I’ve been helping students and young professionals advance their careers and realize their worklife potential. One of the best ways to build a career is to get the most out of information interviews. To date, I’ve…
An Internal Server Error Haiku
Server error. Gross. HTML detective. Learn through discomfort. – A haiku about the time this website was inaccessible until issues were diagnosed and problems were solved collaboratively! It is a good reminder that the best learning is often uncomfortable. Whether…