Editorial Note: This originally started as a rant for Twitter. But, as regular readers can attest, my keyboard tends to outrun the medium I’m in. So I figured I’d repurpose this into a blog post, since it’s been a while. I haven’t quit posting, either, BTW. I’ve got draft content for the next couple of…
I’ve got what might well be a new term for you. You’re probably going to love it, assuming you haven’t heard it before. It’s the sort of poorly-named Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon, so maybe just call it frequency bias. This is the term for when you learn a new word, and then you immediately start hearing it…
Some years back, I was eating lunch in a town-favorite, super casual hot dog place. Wait, let me zoom out a bit. I was doing an onsite consulting gig, as I was wont to do back then. So, I was really busy, and on a brief lunch break. My main goals, in priority order were:…
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a hot take. And, to be fair, this is probably a lukewarm take, at best. I’m taking a slightly aged tweet, and I’m going to react to it in a slightly oblique way. Here’s the tweet. Unpopular career advice: speaking at conferences is a massive waste of time…
Org charts and org chart types. How companies structure reporting relationships. The stuff of Dilbert cartoons and tales of disaffected corporate woe, but also the glue that holds most organizations together in some semblance of order. A Reader Question about Types of Organizational Structure I’m overdue for answering a reader question, so let’s answer one…
