The easiest thing to do with your fear, anxiety, tiredness, stress, mistake, inadequacy, disappointment is to place them on others. Yell, demote, gossip, badmouth, exhaust, demand. It's almost automatic to resort to these when things get tough. The alternative is owning all of that. Knowing that's part of you, identifying it in time, expressing it … Continue reading Your edge
Author: Fabrizio
Natural born managers
People are promoted into managerial and leadership positions, and then it is expected they learn how to do that on their own. That rarely happens. The skills you need to manage or lead a team are very different from the skills you need to successfully execute a project or design a flawless service or build … Continue reading Natural born managers
New leaders
How do you communicate with your team? This is an excellent example. That does not mean you have to be a mum and make jokes about the smell of your child's nappies. It's about understanding the situation, being able to show your vulnerabilities and reminding yourself that literally no one in your team (whether it's … Continue reading New leaders
Break
If you have not yet, now it is a very good time to reach out to your colleagues and team members and ask how they are doing and what they need. Perhaps initially this work-from-home-with-social-distancing-and-home-schooling-during-a-pandemic sounded like a nice turn of event, something that could help people refocus and companies reorganize e restrategize. More than … Continue reading Break
Subtractive
Whenever you make a decision, something is left behind. Not necessarily something bad. It might be a great idea, a wonderful opportunity, a majestic new era. The better the people around you, the better what is discarded will be. And yet, it needs to be this way, because there is no time, energy, resources, speed … Continue reading Subtractive
Burden
What good is a category if all it does is burdening our days with indignation, anger, resentment and negativity? It's positive to identify as this or that, use categories to make sense of the world around us, but let's forgo their capacity of pitching us against the others. It is just another face of resistance, … Continue reading Burden
Ready
When a crisis hits, the human tendency is to focus on the crisis itself. Finding ways to mitigate it, get past it, sometimes leverage it. But if you have a system, a strategy, a story you have built throughout the years, the focus should not be on the crisis. How does the system/strategy/story changes? What … Continue reading Ready
