Coaster (noun)
A little mat that keeps water rings from glassware off your nice mid-century coffee table, thank you.
The San Diego regional commuter train.
An underperforming employee who has been allowed to underperform for six months or more.
Dear Hunter, My organization has grown quickly over the past 3 years, growing from about 80 people to over 200. There are benefits to this change, but the pace of changes and the way the executive team and managers are going about these changes is driving people crazy and making people feel unheard and unimportant.
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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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