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The art of organisational influence - Part 2

The art of organisational influence - Part 2

Welcome to the paid edition! If you're reading this, you're ready to level up your organizational influence game. Fair warning: with great power comes great responsibility. Use these techniques wisely, or don't blame me when you end up as the villain in someone else&

The Art of Organizational Influence - Part 1

The Art of Organizational Influence - Part 1

The Circles of Growth: Capacity, Capability and Potential

A framework for professional (and personal) growth This is a guest post from my friend Arnav Gupta, you might know him as @championswimmer from Twitter or from his hugely popular Scaler Pod. He's not just a hardcore nerd but also a seasoned manager and keeps dropping gems on

The Shape of Work

The Shape of Work

In my last episode, I wrote about the Office and how the shape of our built environment affects our work. But we are not mere material, friend. We’re energetic as well. And intellectual. And the shape of the energetic and intellectual environment also affects how we work. The underlying

The Office

The Office

'Management is not work'

'Management is not work'

In which I explain that management is, indeed, work. But it doesn't look like work because it deals in different material than thermodynamics or information.

Admiration - the secret sauce of culture

Admiration - the secret sauce of culture

Just saw this tweet by Jason Fried and got inspired to write about admiration, the often overlooked attribute of great teams. Jason is an astute org observer and he has hit the nail on the head. There is a huge difference between teams in which the members are playing zero