Resolve Opinion Clashes With Questions
How do move forward when you get into clashes and power struggles? We often get into situations when we feel unheard or want to assert our opinion, especially …
Doctor's Note
A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.
Stop Asking For Permission To Do Your Job
Sometimes doing your job means actually doing your job. Yet one of the habits we find hard to shake in a leadership role is seeking permission for doing what we …
Your Time is a Non Renewable Resource
This week’s Coaching Reflections video is all about valuing your time. Your time is the fossil fuels of your life. You don’t know how much is left …
AI is a double polluter
I’ve come to think of AI as a double polluter. Not only are the energy and water costs enormous for most of the unnecessary use cases, but the output goes …
Asking For What You Want
When we using indirect, hedging language and people please, we can actually end up being selfish by accident, because we’re asking them to do the …
The Four Seasons of Design
It’s important to build in a cadence of difference paces in your day, week, project and year. Without it, you risk burning out. I like to think of this as …
Design as wise guide versus hero
Are you the hero or the wise guide in the story of your work and leadership? This week I’m teaching a masterclass on storytelling, pitching and getting …
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