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Three Ways to Show Others the Value of Your Adaptability and Resilience

newsletter / Johanna / March 17, 2022

Despite all the uncertainty we see these days, some people still value predictions and certainty over adaptability and resilience. Then, when their predictions and certainty don’t work, these folks suddenly value adaptability. When we show others the value of our flexibility, we don’t surprise ourselves with fake certainty. We can, especially if we show others […]

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How Can We Honor Other People’s Values and Move to Falsifiable Claims?

question of the week / Johanna / March 9, 2022

I learned something new this week, about falsifiable and non-falsifiable claims. When we use hypotheses to examine the world around us, we look for observations that can disprove that hypothesis. In other words, we want to see if we can make the experiment fail in some way, to understand more. As an example: Hypothesis: All

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How Much Balance Do We Need to Excel and Succeed?

newsletter / Johanna / February 14, 2022

How Much Balance Do We Need to Excel and Succeed? I’m a sucker for the Olympics. You name the sport—yes, even ones I don’t know or understand—and I can spend hours transfixed. Not because of the sport itself, although I often wonder how people chose that specific sport. But because these athletes use physical, mental,

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Which Battles Do You Choose to Fight and When?

question of the week / Johanna / December 23, 2021

When my older daughter was in high school, we battled often about her clothing. Her school had a dress code that said girls couldn’t wear spaghetti strap tops and their shirts had to cover their backs and bellies. I thought it was my role as her mother to fight that battle on behalf of the

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Three Questions to Become More Adaptable and Resilient in the Future

newsletter / Johanna / December 14, 2021

I’m working on my next year’s “plans.” I use quotes around that word because I use lean approaches to plan my work. I decide which work to do now, and I finish that work. Then, I pick from many options for the next bit of work. Based on my throughput, I have enough possibilities for

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How Can We Rethink Business Card Rituals and Still Connect with Each Other?

question of the week / Johanna / December 1, 2021

When did you last exchange a business card with someone? I’m sure it was either in March 2020 or earlier. Over the past (almost) two years, we’ve proven we don’t need paper business cards. Yet, some people still print them. I wonder how many of these pre-pandemic rituals we will retain and how many we

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Where Can You Create Reinforcing (Virtuous) Feedback Loops?

question of the week / Johanna / November 18, 2021

I love to make it easy for me to do my best work. To do so, I need to think about what I want to reinforce and what I want to dampen. When I create reinforcing—or virtuous—feedback loops, I use my data to do more of what I want. However, that’s not always easy to

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When Do You Know It’s Time to Refill Your Tank?

question of the week / Johanna / November 3, 2021

When do you choose to fill your gas tank? Do you wait until the tank is almost empty? How about at the quarter-full mark? Somewhere in between? We each make decisions about the gas we have in our cars—or our lives. When we don’t have enough of something, we need to refill the tank. We

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Can You Use the Principle of Least Regret to Choose Where to Spend Your Time?

question of the week / Johanna / October 20, 2021

Do you ever feel pulled in a gazillion directions? I’m having one of those months. All kinds of problems and events are pulling me away from my regular work. As a result, I don’t feel as if I’m creative or productive—or effective. At all. I looked at where I’m spending my time: With family members

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What’s on Your “Done” List or How Do You Recognize Your Accomplishments?

question of the week / Johanna / September 30, 2021

Do you keep lists of work to do? If you’re like me, you have the work-list, the home/personal list, and the honey-do list. (The honey-do list is for my honey (husband) to please do.) I also have a potential list, which I don’t pay much attention to. I purposely do not call this a backlog.

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