Friday Randomness, Vol. 78
Specifically in our conversation about asking questions, one of the women, Cheri, made an intriguing statement: ‘Silence will do the heavy-lifting.’
Good judgement comes from experience,
and experience comes from poor judgement.
These are some of the stories about what we’ve learned, usually by screwing up. It’s also some stuff we think is fun, special, or just downright awesome.
Specifically in our conversation about asking questions, one of the women, Cheri, made an intriguing statement: ‘Silence will do the heavy-lifting.’
Now that I’ve achieved that life dream, nothing is calling to me as much as it did. That’s what I’m struggling with. (Spoiler: this isn’t me… )
This one is for the managers. Or those of you who are thinking of becoming a manager. Or who have been a manager. Basically, it’s for a bunch of you.
I was reading an email over my wife’s shoulder (she loves that!). For some dorky reason, it made me think of the conjunction ‘and.’
During a workshop with a group of managers, I brought up the idea of having to take all the blame and pass off all the praise. It garnered a sort of visceral reaction.
One night a couple weeks ago, K was relaxing. She had picked a Netflix series called ‘Explained.’ Specifically, the episode about (wait for it)… exclamation marks.
I was on a call this week with a bunch of alumni from the OIA Future Leadership Academy. Something that was said struck me.
A while ago, my older brother Cosmo posted about email on his blog. A sort of History of My Email Frequency story.
It’s not, well, ever that our little town of Wenatchee, Washington makes national headlines.
Working with a new client, I sent their group of managers a survey through Google Forms. They found it in their spam folder. Oops.
Oh yes, more communication-type stuff this week. My thought: past tense and present tense.
This is for all of us who have spent way too much time over the past twelve months staring at ourselves and lots of other people through our computer screens.
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