Everything I have published sits here, newest first and dated, with the letters arriving fortnightly and written in a more personal register, and the articles running longer because each one is setting out a case. Nothing here is undated, and nothing moves up the list for having done well.
How to Write Your Team’s Constitution
Valladolid · Every team already runs on a constitution nobody wrote down, and the method for writing it on purpose needs a page and an hour rather than a consultant.
What the city writes down
Valladolid · The fiestas look like a city letting go of itself and are very nearly the opposite: hundreds of acts across departments that do not report to each other, holding because it is written down rather than because everyone means well.
What the tide does not need
Comillas · A team that knows what it is for can stop without falling apart, and stopping is only dangerous when nothing has been written down.
Outcomes, not effort
Valladolid · Teams are still rewarded for how hard they appear to be working, and that habit outlives every stated commitment to judging results instead.
The Leadership Constitution you have not written
Valladolid · The commitments that actually govern a leadership team are the ones never said out loud, which is exactly why they survive every restructure and why nobody can be held to them.
The unwritten leadership constitution
Valladolid · Every team is already governed by a document nobody wrote, and until it is written down nobody can argue with it, amend it, or be held to it.
Your “why” has to survive the climb
Valladolid · A purpose that only holds while things are going well was never a purpose, and the test of one is whether it still governs when the work gets hard and nobody is watching.
Landing after Vegas
Valladolid · What a conference is worth is decided in the week after it rather than in the three days inside it.
Preparing for Las Vegas
Valladolid · Nine time zones cost about a week of capacity unless you spend the thirty hours before departure buying it back, which is the cheapest trade in business travel and the one almost nobody makes.
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