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  • Your Policy is Full of Crap

    Your Policy is Full of Crap

    There are three types of rules in Policy. Effectively enforcing and updating your policy requires a team to identify which rules are Red, Green, and Brown.

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  • Church of the Saviour Transcript

    These are my speaker notes I used for a talk on Nov 25 to a group of men. It deals with stress and some of my personal struggles in the last year.

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  • Everyone Needs a Wx Day

    Everyone Needs a Wx Day

    I understand that turning a team off or stopping production may seem counter-intuitive for an increase in productivity. But in order to retain the level of product and safety that we were known for, we needed to stop delivering a product for a day.

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  • The Weight of PTSD

    The Weight of PTSD

    Think of your mental stress capacity as a hiking backpack. As you accumulate stress, you add weight into that pack. And as you decompress, you remove weight. PTSD is a reaction of your mind to an overwhelming amount of weight. How are you managing your teams weight? Your own weight?

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  • Bad Leaders Make Good Decisions Too

    Bad leaders can be bad because they are untrained, don’t care, incompetent, or they aren’t driving the team in a unified direction. But this article isn’t about how to turn those bad leaders into good ones. Instead, it’s how you can positively interact with those misguided leaders.

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