Bring everyone along with inclusive leadership practices

Steps to effective, inclusive cross-functional work by leading with clarity, curiosity, and generosity.

March 15, 2023 · 15 min · 3092 words · mike
A family sits on a bench in a museum. They appear to be in animated conversation, but one of them is looking away as if to ignore what she's hearing.

Supporting an Open Door Culture by Listening

Leaders often help best when they accept that they don’t know all the answers.

May 3, 2022 · 8 min · 1617 words · mike
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Using the DACI Framework

As organizations scale, roles and responsibilities shift and often become less clear. While DACI and similar frameworks can be a little intimidating, you can keep it simple and bring clarity to your team.

May 3, 2022 · 7 min · 1299 words · mike
A man walks down the sidewalk squinting into the rain.

You can't say what you are, but you should try anyhow.

I say 'I consider myself a feminist,' because I really do. But I always feel like I'm taking a big risk when I say 'I AM a feminist,' because there is always, always some other feminist out there who will show you that you're wrong. Usually they'll also show you that you're awful for it. — Someone somewhere I visit regularly Another feminist here. That’s an understandable sentiment. Personally, I hate calling myself anything at all, ever. I spent four years trying to reconcile what I thought I was, what I wanted to say to people I was, what I wanted people to think I was underneath, and what I wanted to be with what I was being every single day by just waking up where I was waking up and doing what I was doing. ...

July 5, 2015 · 7 min · 1488 words · mike

#yesallwomen

This is a story of getting things wrong, and perhaps continuing to get things wrong, but not knowing exactly what to do besides what I’ve come up with. prologue When I lived in Bloomington, IN, some guy spent a week in one of the student neighborhoods attacking women. The one account I read from a victim was that he walked up to her with keys sticking out from between the fingers of his balled fist, slashed her cheek open, and said, “not so pretty now” before running off. ...

May 25, 2014 · 5 min · 921 words · mike