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Create a Personal Strategy
I just finished reading Bullshit Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber, which is a thoroughly excellent book about the modern world of work. According to...
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Why Strategy Fails (and what to do differently)
Many of us have the wrong idea about strategy. We think it's about workshops and documents, and then struggle to understand why everyone's still...
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How to stick to your strategy throughout the year
Goals and dreams that seem exciting and doable when we prepare our strategy and plan can feel impossible a short time later once we're drowning in...
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15 signs of a strategist
In this article Your 4 minute strategy MBA We are all strategists 15 tell-tale signs of a strategist
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4 ways to move fast without breaking things
Hi, I'm Alicia McKay, a serial fast-moving thing-breaker. It's one of my best qualities - I execute ideas quickly and fix them as I go. I'm often on...
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How to be a strategist: 3 things to do today
I've been thinking again about how to answer the dreaded BBQ question - you know, the one: "So, what do you do for work?"
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3 Strategic Thinking Skills that Get You What You Want
One of the most exciting modules in the naMBA curriculum is when we talk about systems. We build our problem-solving skills by drawing on the work of...
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When to Try New Things: 4 options for creating change
This week, I've been thinking about the warning signals that something needs to change. It stems from some work I'm doing around change and...
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Leading through change: the power of language
“Words create worlds” - JONATHAN FRANZEN Two years ago, I conducted a personal experiment after reading James Clear's Atomic Habits. To be more...
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Find Your Purpose: Upgrade your inner Google
GET YOUR FREE PLAY THE LONG GAME PACK Get perspective It feels like our experiences are factual, because they’re tangible. If you can see, smell,...
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Embrace meh: 6 surprising benefits of feeling like shit
Feeling like sh*t, or 'FLS' is one of the most common elements of the human experience. I dare you to find someone who’s got through a week without...
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3 Things You Can Do To Make Your Meetings Suck Less
Because they probably suck… and it’s probably not your fault. Why are so many workshops and meetings that are supposed to be important, so hopeless?...
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8 Things People Get Wrong About Strategy
Strategy is the Emperor’s New Clothes of the working world. It’s one of those buzzwords that lost much of it’s meaning in the 1980s, but people need...
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8 ways to kill stress for good
We’ve been on a stress rollercoaster the last couple of years, haven’t we? We had all that lovely acute stress in COVID, where we smashed into panic...
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Why are you like this?: How strengths overused become weaknesses
Why am I like this?!" is a bit of a catchphrase in my house. Usually, I’m bemoaning something I’ve stuffed up. Either I’ve messed up my admin, worked...
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How to Lead Change When People Don’t Care
It's hard to lead change when people are too busy and distracted to care.
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Your 2020 digest
It would be easy to treat 2020 a bit like a regretful purchase – you know, when you throw the receipt away without looking at it or stuff your...
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Angry people
I woke up on Sunday morning full of Christmas spirit. Oh wait, no, I didn't. I woke up on Sunday morning full of indignation, which I channelled into...
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Facilitating difficult groups: 6 lessons I learned the hard way
When I was 22 years old, a graduate policy wonk in my first real job, I was tasked with my first strategic planning assignment. The brief: prepare a...
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How to plan your year when things are uncertain
This is usually the time of year when I’d have my 2021 on the wall, month by month, meticulously planned out—significant pieces of work, trips away,...
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4 steps to playing the long game
How was your 2020, overall? Mine was a nightmare, to be honest.
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How to convert a cynic: assume positive intent
As a facilitator, I can spot a cynic a mile away. Their body language is pure resistance: folded arms, suspicious expressions, and deep sighs. They...