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A whole team kept Slack on their phones 24/7. The real emergencies? Four in three months. A time autonomy mismatch, and the simple fix.
How many times did you check Slack last night? During bath time, at dinner, in bed?
One event planner at TeamOut did exactly that, until she asked the co-founder and CTO if she could delete Slack from her phone. In a job whe...
"Skepticism is now the default posture." Henna Pryor
You're communicating more than ever. So why aren't people believing you? Deepfakes, scams, AI-polished everything, and a meeting transcript that gets screenshotted into a Slack thread before you've even logged off. Everyone you talk to is quietly verifying you, and that constant hypervigilance is exhausting for their ...
A perfectly good solution aimed at the wrong problem is still the wrong solution.
Picture an employee who has been fantastic for years. Smart, dependable, great work. Lately they are quieter in meetings, they stopped volunteering for projects, and they are doing what is required and not one thing more. What would you do? Time off? Coaching? Better boundaries?
In t...
"The same year that I filed bankruptcy, I was inducted into the Hall of Fame." Jess Pettitt
On Inauguration Day, my friend Jess Pettitt lost her largest contract. Not because of anything she did. The entire office she worked with was closed 21 minutes after the inauguration, and the people she'd been working with called her from the sidewalk, holding boxes of everything...