Looking back, I can say 2021 was an excellent year. Business boomed, health was great, family was peaceful and prospering.

Didn’t expect that reflection, did you?

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I boggled at the risk taken in launching the James Webb Space Telescope today, Christmas Day. But, on reflection, the launch is only one small piece of the gamble. 

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Merry Christmas* and a Happy New Year

to all our friends, followers, supporters, partners, and clients.

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To succeed at changing how you work, it must be done:
• iteratively, incrementslly, experimentally, in many smaller lower-risk changes.
• invitationally, collaboratively, inclusively. We change us, not we change them.
• open, transparently, without secrecy, with clear due process, honestly, with integrity.

You can’t step-change how you work. Changing behaviour is a continual graduated process.

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There are ideas that, when we first meet them, they “do our head in”: they mess with our head, they are a mindfuck. And yet, once we logically unpack the idea, it makes perfect sense, even though when we first heard it intuitively our mind rebelled, rejected it as crazy.

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I wrote a post about why it is hard to find staff. The corollary is what we should do to make it easy to find people. Logically, we just invert my earlier post:

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HBR wrote about how women need to be more.confident and assertive to get equal treatment  It’s what women have to do, not what they should have to do.

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Set crazy goals.

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Work exists on a spectrum from familiar to exploratory. I wrote a book, Standard+Case, about it.  In recent years, I’ve absorbed the principles of complexity, and I’m rewriting that book.

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How should we best distribute the rewards for the production of value in order to maximize future value output?

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