The Midterm Murkiness: How Did You Cope With This Week’s Uncertainty?
The climate leading up to the U.S. midterms was charged, emotional, and uncertain. There was uncertainty about the process. There was uncertainty about the outcome. There was uncertainty from both sides of the aisle and both sides of the border. There was the swirl of...
Flexible Structure
When we are looking to create, to innovate, and to change we need an environment that allows us to experiment in relevant ways. We need: The balance, and The creative tension Not too rigid Not too loose The structure required to focus, not to contain The flexibility...
The Power of the Pause
Pause. It’s hard to make a change while you are in motion; following the traditional scripts, assuming the usual assumptions, heading in the same direction as you always have. How often do you ask, “is this still the right direction?” – the right decision? That...
You’re Not Stuck – You’re Just Uncomfortable
Most people assume that if something feels hard, it means they can't do it. Our brains are very convincing about this. They will present the feeling of discomfort as though it is a certified assessment of your actual capability. It is not! It is just a feeling. Your...
Think INSIDE The Box – Inside The Sandbox
Do your employees play in a sandbox...? Maybe they should. Excited to share my latest article published in Forbes where I discuss how thinking INSIDE the box, inside the sandbox, can unleash creativity and unlock decision making. The edges of the sandbox represent the...
The Good News About Uncertainty
The Good News Between 2022 and 2025, Canadians became measurably more comfortable with uncertainty despite objectively harder conditions. This is what we call the “Post-Disruption Resilience Effect”. And this is good news. We conducted research during the two most...
Jobstacles
A jobstacle is any job-related obstacle that gets in the way of you, or your employees, doing their best work. If instead, we spent that time communicating the positive culture we want to achieve, hire good people, and trust them to do good work, we might not have needed to draft that policy at all.
This Ain’t My First Rodeo
Our expertise might be a problem. Expertise doesn’t just give you knowledge – it gives you a script. And the most dangerous thing about a script, is that you stop noticing you’re reading from one. Instead we need to lean into our curiosity and practice intellectual humility.
Make it their problem
When people see how they can contribute, and that their contribution matters, they can start to fall in love with it too.
Procrastinate Later – The Upside of Procrastination
Procrastination is not always a bad thing. Strategic Procrastination provides advantages such as incubation and the second-mover advantage.
“Business moves
too fast
to be scripted.”
Jennifer Spear
