You've been working on it for weeks, maybe months. Planning, coordinating, communicating, cajoling, cat-herding... whatever it takes. And finally, the day comes when you are ready to launch. Maybe it's a big project that's consumed multiple months for you and your coworkers. Or an event, like a music festival or birthday party or tradeshow booth,… Continue reading Launches
Category: Leadership
Discovering competence
Most of us have been in situations where we arrive on a scene, especially when joining a new group, and learn that something is going terribly wrong. The Boy Scout group planning an activity is disorganized. The band uniforms to distribute are all in a giant unsorted pile. The last guy wasn’t enforcing the rules… Continue reading Discovering competence
Puzzles
When your brain is fully engaged in a challenging puzzle, the rest of the world can fade away. It could be a pencil and paper puzzle, like a cryptic crossword clue or “who owns the zebra” logic puzzle. It could be the situational puzzles that come up in complex board games, like how am I… Continue reading Puzzles
Showing you still know how to do it
Ever find yourself in a situation where you have to tackle a specialized task, and flex muscles that you haven't used in a while? And imposter syndrome starts to set in? Maybe it's helping your child with his algebra homework. Maybe it's cooking or baking a complex recipe for company coming over. Maybe you're taking… Continue reading Showing you still know how to do it
Strategic vs Tactical
Our days are so full of tasks to complete, like quests in a never-ending role-playing game. Laundry, dishes, decluttering, bills, groceries, straightening, meal prep, errands. Emails, phone calls, status reports, one-on-one check-ins, presentation revisions, invoices. Decisions, optimizations, quick fixes, interventions, assists, demonstrations, coordinations, deferments. It's both exhilarating and exhausting to check off items from the… Continue reading Strategic vs Tactical
The Joys of JJFoley 