Hi Nilofer, two points of yours below really struck me:
"Because for workplaces to be fully alive? The goal is to *fix* the game, not hate the players."
"It’s more often the structures and systems we’re operating in that are making us do crappy things. We have far too many outdated metrics and specific management frameworks that, well, don’t work."
Both insights you revealed showed me why I was so resigned in my own work life, until global shifts last year "promoted" me to do something new. The best culture builders and leaders I've admired at work were shut down when they came to the realizations you just shined light on. They gave up because there's no external community (of committed, honest value...and maybe influence?) to rely on. Or, to source practical help to dig themselves out from the layers of outdated infrastructure overwhelm you mentioned.
Maybe our charge as readers is to explicitly assist in changing that? I'll be spreading word of your writing-teaching-wisdom here more regularly, going forward. Have an awesome holiday break, in the meantime.
The work of the Column Club? is to offer that external community to rely on. I'll pop in here and there but the point is to have that peer group of folks to lean on. And thanks for naming this charge. That's beautifully said, too. I know not everyone is ready to take up that charge. But my intention is to enable those who are ready to pick up that charge, to be change agents in whatever ways small or big, to do so. So thanks, Dara. On so many levels, thanks,
Oh Nilofer Merchant when I thought I couldn't love your work around #Onlyness more.
We get to understand and unlock our own Onylness as you continue to weave and further clarify yours. THIS is meaningful. THIS matters. THIS can and will change the world.
Hi Nilofer, two points of yours below really struck me:
"Because for workplaces to be fully alive? The goal is to *fix* the game, not hate the players."
"It’s more often the structures and systems we’re operating in that are making us do crappy things. We have far too many outdated metrics and specific management frameworks that, well, don’t work."
Both insights you revealed showed me why I was so resigned in my own work life, until global shifts last year "promoted" me to do something new. The best culture builders and leaders I've admired at work were shut down when they came to the realizations you just shined light on. They gave up because there's no external community (of committed, honest value...and maybe influence?) to rely on. Or, to source practical help to dig themselves out from the layers of outdated infrastructure overwhelm you mentioned.
Maybe our charge as readers is to explicitly assist in changing that? I'll be spreading word of your writing-teaching-wisdom here more regularly, going forward. Have an awesome holiday break, in the meantime.
The work of the Column Club? is to offer that external community to rely on. I'll pop in here and there but the point is to have that peer group of folks to lean on. And thanks for naming this charge. That's beautifully said, too. I know not everyone is ready to take up that charge. But my intention is to enable those who are ready to pick up that charge, to be change agents in whatever ways small or big, to do so. So thanks, Dara. On so many levels, thanks,
Oh Nilofer Merchant when I thought I couldn't love your work around #Onlyness more.
We get to understand and unlock our own Onylness as you continue to weave and further clarify yours. THIS is meaningful. THIS matters. THIS can and will change the world.