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How We Work: “ABR” (“Always Be Reprioritizing”)

One of the hearts of our work is how teams work. So what better team dynamics to explore and understand than our own? (And only marginally less egotistical than analyzing yourself is analyzing the team you're on; it includes others, so it's not as extreme as just thinking about yourself.) So let's share and review today one of the various principles we use when we work internally, what we call on our team "ABR," for "Always Be Reprioritizing."

Exposing Our Own Biases: Why I Err Wildly Towards Over-Documentation

One clear and overwhelming bias of mine—as anyone who has worked with me for more than twenty minutes within the last twenty years knows—is my strong bias towards over-documentation. So, let’s articulate the reason why Documentation might just possibly be underrated. Let’s go!

Lessons in the Lifecycle of the Consultant From “Hotel California”

Work can be a lovely place–such a lovely place!–that you might want to never leave. And this is one of the beautiful cautions that the American poet Don Henley cautions us about but his warning implies a question: why? Why couldn’t you, wouldn’t you, check out of your work place, or in the metaphor of his poem, the “Hotel California”? There is a great nugget of a lesson nestled in his poem, but to unravel it, we have to go verse by verse, and doing so tells the story of the arc of the consultant’s work. Let’s dive in.

Introducing the Familiarity-Importance Matrix

Bad news: politics is unavoidable in the workspace. I'm sorry to break it to you, Virginia: even if you see yourself as non-political, there's no avoiding it, because politics consumes everything. And Santa Claus doesn't exist!

Your Company’s Culture Club: “Karma Chameleon” As A Workplace Warning

Despite having heard "Karma Chameleon" perhaps thousands of times, I never stopped to ponder the lyrics, although I have wondered about the separate question of whether songs so canonical and ubiquitous will be remembered or lost, even just a generation down the line.

The Four Types of Work Colleagues… According to U2

In the very large category of "songs whose choruses I have sung hundreds or thousands of times yet I never thought of the meaning of what I'm actually singing until that song happened to randomly come onto a playlist recently" we have a new addition that is worth diving in to.

Why You Should Wait Before Responding to Clients

People assume that quick responses are an indicator of a good work ethic. But, this isn’t necessarily the case. Let’s explore why responding to clients right away isn’t a good idea for more than one reason.

Why Complaining at Work is a Bad Idea

Complaining at and about work is a common albeit bad habit many people have. What seems like a harmless habit can soon transition into something worse. Let’s find out exactly why complaining at work isn’t the smartest thing to do.

Statute of Limitations for Criticizing Anyone

The statute of limitations for criticizing people isn’t difficult to understand. But, many employees fail to pay attention to the nuances of what it involves. We’ll explore this here.

The power of educating

It is a cliché headline, but it is not a cliché article. We are not talking about educating children, or teenagers, or college people, or any other under-aged kid in the school era.

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