Straight from the desk

“I never make predictions, and I never will.” - Will Rogers Something happens every time there is a crisis somewhere in the world - People who couldn't find that country on a map yesterday suddenly have a fully formed opinion about its foreign policy. By 11:47 PM, they've solved the conflict. They know who is right. They know who is wrong. They know what the leaders should do. And, naturally, they know what everyone else is too stupid to understand. I've done it too. You read

“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” — Terry Pratchett A few years ago, one of my executive leaders announced: 'Speed is essential. Faster is better.' More meetings. More updates. More Slack messages. More check-ins. 'Churn out more. More is better.' As a manager, I thought my job was to keep things moving. Fast. Forward. Never stopping. Then I started noticing something strange - The bus