Crap Arising; or, Catch It
A neighbourhood cat has been leaving unwelcome deposits on our porch with impressive (and elusive) regularity. You can’t let things like this bother you: dealing… Read More »Crap Arising; or, Catch It
A neighbourhood cat has been leaving unwelcome deposits on our porch with impressive (and elusive) regularity. You can’t let things like this bother you: dealing… Read More »Crap Arising; or, Catch It
I stumbled across the OSS Simple Sabotage Field Manual on Project Gutenberg and had to give it a skim. (The OSS was a U.S. intelligence… Read More »The Office of Strategic Services (1944) on how to sabotage your organisation through bureaucracy
Here’s a quick way to take the temperature of your own effectiveness and that of your organisation: list the things that you’ve improved recently, and… Read More »Spot check: what have you made better?
That which gets in the way of my mission is my mission. Tim Ferriss, quoting somebody If you have that feeling that something is up… Read More »That which gets in the way of the mission: on having The Conversation quickly
Some crises are worth seeking. You can limp on, drained by low-level conflict or conflict avoidance, suffocated by the elephants in the room, for months… Read More »The crisis you seek
How free are you at work? How free are the people you’re responsible for? “As free as possible,” is a good answer, but there are… Read More »Freedom to the nose (2): stealing at work
A fresh, sharp razor is faster and easier to use, is less less painful, and gives a better and longer-lasting finish. As a result you… Read More »A sharper razor
There are two types of quick emails. There’s kind where you can handle it in five or ten minutes and… the job’s finished; someone else… Read More »Quick emails
Mental Overhead Another type of friction we experience is from the ongoing mental overhead of having too many balls in the air. Unfinished projects, unanswered… Read More »Friction (4): mental overhead and nameless dread
Friction in the wrong places slows us down and drains our energy, but it has its uses: Friction in processes or emotional friction it’s often… Read More »Friction (3): when friction helps