Care fiercely. When we work with people, there's a tendency to think that emotional detachment is helpful. There are days I am tempted to buy into this thinking. Days I wish I cared less. Especially days when I have to do difficult things, help my clients evaluate difficult decisions, when
trust No trust? No learning. I stumbled my way into the rabbit hole topic of organisational trust in 2023, reading Lily Zheng's DEI Deconstructed[1]. By all accounts, organisational trust occupies very little physical space in their book, and it's there mostly to discuss the impact of existing trust levels in
Confessions of a professional party pooper (I originally wrote and published this post on my previous blog at Substack on August 15, 2024. Enjoy!) Today’s post is a bit more on the personal side of things. This is one of those topics where I am, in fact, a bit all over the place. I decided
When things don't make sense... and we still reproduce them in our smaller ecosystems (I originally wrote and published this on my previous blog at Substack on December 7, 2023. Enjoy!) Every day I struggle with things not making sense. I look at mainstream media reporting or the lack thereof and I wonder what the point is. I mean, I’m learning hard lessons
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