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The things I talk about over and over again.
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Valentina
Where does motivation come from: The Four Tendencies
A take on Gretchen Rubin's book on workplace motivation
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Growth requires friction
Absence of friction creates loneliness for humans
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Communication beats AI every time
Knowledge needs context and purpose to be useful.
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Remote operations as risk management
Working AS IF everyone were remote increases resilience - and reflects the reality of multiple offices and people traveling for work
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Digital settlers: location independent and very much staying put
A response to everyone pushing digital nomad services on me just because I work remotely: here are some ideas I'd love to see instead.
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Assuming you have expectations - what are you going to do about it?
Also - you can now vote to learn from me how not to die alone. If that's not a teaser, I don't know what is ;)
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How about we make your manager-employee conversations a talkshow?
How RTO is hurting employee development and trust
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Wine pairing for difficult conversations
A not entirely serious guide to meetings that could use some humour
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Why change is hard and what that says about identity
On system survival, change management, and identity shifts
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Time isn't running out for you to become an entrepreneur
You aren't running out of time. You are collecting experience.
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Silence means yes / no / nothing
Managing expectations in distributed communication
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