Basic Concept #66: Don’t Let Waiting Freeze Your Progress
Waiting is an energy leak. One of the biggest energy leaks at work is waiting. Waiting for feedback. Waiting for decisions. Waiting…
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Basic Concept #58: Saying Less Can Be More Generous
You have so much to offer. Experience, insights, perspectives, solutions. When someone brings you a challenge, you want to share everything you…
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Basic Concept #18: The meeting is not for you…
Not all meetings are what they seem. At some point in your career, you realize a strange thing: not all meetings are…
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Basic Concept #07: Emotional Performance Is Not Real Work
There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from working in systems where visibility counts more than value. You’ll recognize it: the…
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Basic Concept #55: Don’t Coach When People Want Comfort
The Development Lesson That Backfired I learned this lesson the hard way during what should have been a mentoring moment with one…
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Basic Concept #21: Trying is not the same as delivering.
There’s a particular kind of organizational conversation that happens after projects fail, targets are missed, or initiatives collapse. It goes something like…
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Basic Concept #41: If You Only Chase Signals, You Miss Structure
Organizations that only respond to problems while ignoring the structures that create them remain trapped in firefighting cycles. Structural thinking requires asking why problems occur rather than just how to fix them, identifying patterns in signals rather than treating each crisis as unique, and investing in prevention systems rather than just response capability.
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Basic Concept #04: Don’t Fight Every Candle
Signal v Noise In trading, there’s a saying: Don’t fight every candle. A candle is just one bar on the price chart,…
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Basic Concept #61: Don’t Assume. Ask.
Most confusion doesn’t come from malice. It comes from assumptions. And assumptions are the mother of all fuck ups. We assume people…
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Basic Concept #27: Don’t Try to Win the Room. Win the Hallway.
I learned this lesson during what should have been my most successful technical presentation ever. I was proposing a complete infrastructure modernization…