After we completed the interviews, I was convinced that the new PM we were about to hire was an “A Player”; he had all the traits we were looking for. And so 6 months later, when things weren’t going…
What if your Sunday Scaries aren’t caused by the 4 meeting you have Monday morning, before you will even get to your email, the 47 Slack messages that are waiting in your inbox, or the PowerPoint you have to…
Leaders are constituted through structural relations and individual choice, but most conversations about management erase the structural half, treating it as pure individual agency based on individual traits. I want to talk about how we really become who we…
It has been nearly 6 months, but the newsletter is back. I am revising the newsletter’s focus a bit to make it more practical and useful for folks, but still keeping the philosophical edge. Please let me know what…
The recent rounds of layoffs, which have hit middle managers particularly hard, have raised an important question. 1 Do we even need middle managers anymore? On one side, companies have flattened their hierarchies, and the managers they retain are…
I have gotten some feedback that what I have been writing has been too dense and not actionable enough. This week, I am going to try something different. Please share your thoughts by replying to this email. I don’t…
In past newsletters, I have reviewed several books on the transindividual, and while those were densely theoretical, I am now working on making them more practical as a basis for a new approach to change. The fundamental question I…
In the previous newsletter, we looked at how Yves Citton defines power (as the flow of desire and belief) in his book Mythocracy: How Stories Shape Our Worlds. In this newsletter, we will explore narrative as a form of…
