My unfiltered takes on leadership, culture, navigating complexity, and the (sometimes bumpy) road to personal growth—with a special lens for those leading from the in-between.
Hired to 'fix' the culture but feel like you're killing its soul instead? Welcome to liminal leadership. It’s the messy, vital art of leading from the chrysalis, where old patterns are dead and the new ones haven’t yet taken shape.
Step into the Space Between →Think your culture changes via broadcast memo? Cute. It actually spreads like a virus, and cynicism is way more contagious than optimism. Learn the rules of social contagion before it infects your whole org.
Understand the Spread →Preaching 'employee well-being' while your metrics scream 'burnout'? Your org might be living a double life. We'll explore the cognitive dissonance trap that forces this hypocrisy and how to stop paying the hidden emotional tax.
Confront the Contradictions →So you've learned culture has layers. Now what? Stop trying to treat climate change with an umbrella. This is how you work with culture's different speeds to foster real evolution, not just another round of rearranging the deck chairs.
Evolve Your Approach →Trying to 'fix' culture like it's a leaky faucet? It's more like trying to change the weather. This post explores how culture evolves at its own pace, why your quick fixes often backfire, and how understanding 'pace layers' can help you design change that actually sticks.
Ready for a Climate Shift? →Think that new agile framework will save you? Adorable. Culture will chew it up and spit it out unless you get to the real meal: shifting those pesky underlying assumptions. Frameworks often just skim the surface...
Get the Gory Details →Still blaming process or skill gaps? Cute. The real culprit holding your team hostage might just be a story everyone's pretending not to hear – those 'invisible scripts' about worth quietly shaping what feels safe...
Pull Back the Curtain →Yeah, yeah, scaling and decision-making are hard. But what if the real beast is your culture? Forget the mission statements on the wall; we're talking deep mindset shifts, the kind that actually transform how choices are made...
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