This morning, February 1st, 2024, was an epic mess. It started with a flood warning, the second set of floods here in San Diego in the past two weeks.
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Gossip as in the bad kind, saying negative things about other people behind their backs, including rumors and assumptions. Drugs as in drugs that can be misused, drugs of abuse. Like drugs, gossip can be fun. In the very short term. It’s social, like a lot of illicit drug use.
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The Electric Mayhem Band. To know them is to love them. Five shaggy puppets who we always see together. Muppets, to be precise. Each with their own distinct personality and contribution, one whose charm comes from disruptive destruction (he’s the “innovator,” we could say?).
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You don’t have to hire an expert and spend days to make progress in your team’s strategy. Apologies to all my brilliant and valuable friends and colleagues who do strategic planning. (Even my sister is one!) Big-S Strategy work, with a multi-phase process with multiple meetings and the input of multiple stakeholders, is crucial.
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Dear Hunter,
I have an employee who seems to struggle with perfectionism. She argues and pushes back whenever I make any corrections to her work. When I give her constructive feedback, I include an example, and she immediately asks for another example. No matter how many examples I give her, nothing seems to sink in and she gets defensive.
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I am just back at work from the longest break of my career. Four weeks. Longer even than breaks from work when I was all the way back in high school. I have always worked.
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