The Blunder Years, Episode 34: Japan vs. USA, gender equality, karate, motherhood, and cuddles

A conversation about Japan, the USA, garbage, karate, motherhood, gender equality, relationships, and much more. Continue Reading →

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When your boss sucks, everyone knows it, everyone talks with each other about it, but …

Stop promoting assholes

The promise, and the peril, of delivering feedback up a chain of command. Continue Reading →

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“Wishful thinking rather than accurate self-assessment”

Self-awareness is not at scale, and it might be regressing. Continue Reading →

What if we thought of getting fired as a good thing?

The prism of self-awareness can save you. Continue Reading →

Most people you meet won’t be that self-aware

Confirmation bias vs. self-awareness in a 12-round cage match, and self-awareness ain’t winning too often. Continue Reading →

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Stop promoting project managers to lead people

Just because you manage tasks and timelines well doesn’t mean you’re going to manage people well. Continue Reading →

Your career sucks because you lack self-awareness

It’s time to yank your head out of your posterior for a week or two. Continue Reading →

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Don’t run from your shortcomings. Embrace ’em.

Shortcomings

The system works like this: fail, fix the failure, fail again, fix that failure, and continue to grow. Oh wait. The system ** should ** work like that. BS and bluster gets in the way. Continue Reading →