Category: Leadership & Strategy
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Fire Yourself — a multi-year process of self-renewal
Self-reflection is a difficult skill. If you’re struggling with an honest reflection of your (work) life, start here: fire yourself. Seriously, act as if you just fired yourself from your role. Now what do you do? In 2016 I listened to a podcast episode titled Fire Yourself. It changed my perspective. The key difference was I could…
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Focus and Meeting Time
I don’t recall being a person who “hates meetings”. In fact, early on in my career I sometimes leaned toward joining meetings because I was in the camp who believed that’s where the “important stuff happened.” Now that my calendar is full of meetings and, within the Covid-era, we have even more meetings, I’m actively focused on eliminating, shortening,…
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Copy + Paste Proliferation
Early on, I learned this magical set of features where I could take existing material, copy it, and then paste it to whatever degree required. That doesn’t sound that magical today, especially compared to augmented reality (AR), artificial intelligence (AI), or self driving cars! However, it’s foundational. Without that simple set of tools (cut, copy,…
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Fatness
Editorial note: I wrote this back in October 2018, but with it being January (and the main season for resolutions) I figured this is quite the opportune time to post. Quick note: though this has nothing to do with anyone’s resolutions, let me know how I can encourage you as you pursue yours! As I…
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Builder and Maintainer: Pitfalls of Handing Off The Baton
If you make statements like: “I’d lose interest in simply keeping things moving. I’d get bored.” You’re a builder. Alternatively, perhaps you don’t enjoy “that level of risk.” You desire to work in an established company or team with plenty of structure, doing something a tad safer — there’s nothing wrong with this — you’re…
Jeff Beaumont 