This Fri Dec 5 is the deadline to apply to Power and Love for Managers, my 10-week cohort training for managers of all levels of experience (including aspiring). Kickoff and close are in Oakland, the sessions in-between are on Zoom. fasterthan20.com/training/pow...

Nine years ago, I found myself hiking through a Kentucky forest foraging for ginseng with my elderly mom. It was a profound experience, and it got me thinking about the tension between self-reliance and interdependence. fasterthan20.com/2025/11/fora...

"Experiments reduce the stakes to merely learning what works and what doesn't." Jeff Waldman reminds us of the value of approaching projects as experiments.

Too often leaders blame staff for being “distracted” or “bad at time management.” As Mike Hoye points out, the real issue is unclear priorities and lack of shared infrastructure. Focus is a system design problem, not an individual flaw.

This @emollick.bsky.social piece describes two classic org theories:

Garbage Can: Orgs are messier than we'd like to think
Bitter Lesson: Brute force usually beats our "wise" approaches

Mollick wonders about the implications of AI at work. I wonder how this applies to collaboration in general.

This fun clip from Meet the Robinsons (h/t Quincy Chan) embodies what experimentation is all about.

In times of great urgency, it’s all too easy for businesses to skip over fundamental practices for the sake of getting things done. But there’s a huge cost, and we’re seeing that not just in orgs, but societally.

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Oh no! This @atsukocomedy.bsky.social bit on consultants hits way too close to home. 🤣