Things We Think

Last night I had an interesting conversation with a fellow dance dad that was picking up his daughter at the same time as me. We got on the topic of what I do… which is always a problem. Because. What do I do? Well, I design board games. I do that. I write. I do that....

And neither is that... Over the last couple of years I’ve been working more and more with something called EOS (The Entrepreneurial Operating System). It’s basically just a really tight organizational structure focused on vision, clarity, and accountability. I love...

Sometimes I’m not sure how much I believe this and other times I think there’s nothing I believe more. I’ve worked in a number of organizations where there was a huge push towards making sure that the culture was top notch. There were expensive coffee makers, nerf...

The thing about people is that they’re quite unpredictable. You’ll just be cruising along thinking you’ve got them all figured out and then one day, WHAM! you find out they like sauerkraut. There’s no limit to the depravity. Because people are so unpredictable we’re...

Just Do It I mean, what a great tagline right? But what is it? Well, basically, if you’re doing it right… just about anything. Strategy will slow you down and in many cases, it will kill you. Now this is not to suggest that we should just act all willy nilly and just...

Years ago, I worked in non-profit for awhile. Originally hired as a social media manager, I did what I always do; told them everything was broken and got a promotion. As VP of Communications my job was essentially everything customer-facing. I was the podcast...

There was a time, not long ago, when I was actively researching how to go about becoming a certified project manager. Why? Well, I have always really liked helping people accomplish things and as far as I could tell, “project manager” was the job that did that. Since...

For about a half a decade I worked for a national stationary retailer. I don’t want to mention the company by name at this point for a variety of reasons, but let’s call them “Metal Fasteners” because I don’t know what those little metal fasteners that fit inside a...

When you start to dig into how to make work better it can be a little overwhelming. Ok. That’s a lie. It can be a lot overwhelming. It can be fucking impossible. You will, I assure you, likely feel as through the task is akin to Sisyphus, rolling a rock up a hill just...