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One of my recent favourite reads has been Leadership Agility: Five Levels of Mastery for Anticipating and Initiating Change by William B. Joiner and Stephen A. Josephs. I found it “accidentally” while looking for management books on how to effectively delegate. It’s not about that at all but a comment from a Goodreads reviewer that suggested it…
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When you’re starting something new, you might want to dig and find out what will make it exciting for you. That might be a personal goal, a task you want to accomplish, or a risky innovative product. Because you’re starting fresh these are all tasks where there’s a chance of failure, or seemingly insurmountable obstacles,…
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There are two goal-setting frameworks that have become helpful to me over the past few months. The SMART and SMARTER frameworks. They’ve both brought clarity into how I think about achieving results at work and in my day-to-day life. SMART Goals SMART is an acronym that acts as a mnemonic and framework for setting objectives…
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There’s something uniquely challenging yet profoundly rewarding about wrapping meetings as the sun sets at home in the middle of Canada while the sun is rising on a teammate in Taiwan but this is just my weekly routine. As a lead at Automattic I’m responsible for leading and directing individuals and teams distributed remotely around…
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A few weeks ago Dave Martin told me about Dharmesh Shah’s unique way of providing context to communication with hashtags. Shah cofounded Hubspot with Brian Halligan at MIT in 2006. At some point in the history of Hubspot he found himself struggling with conveying how strongly he felt about information he shared. To counter this…
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