by Brandi Olson | Leadership, Planning & Strategy, Teams
Best practices are dead. Long live better practices. I used to be in love with the idea that there is a best way to do something. Perhaps you love that idea too? I’ll be honest, I find deep comfort in the concept of best — the best deal, the right answer, the perfect...
by Brandi Olson | Leadership, Planning & Strategy, Productivity
Modern Management’s Fetish That’s Getting in the Way of Your Success As a Western society, we are steeped in the belief that being a high-performer means doing more, all at once. We’ve been conditioned to attach enormous value to being endlessly busy, and we conflate...
by Brandi Olson | Leadership, Planning & Strategy
What can you control when the future is unpredictable? Welcome to December, where winter has arrived in my part of the far northern hemisphere. It’s impossible to predict exactly when the snow will arrive and how the winter season will settle in, but every single year...
by Brandi Olson | Planning & Strategy, Productivity
Prioritize Your Change Capital Investment I’ll give you a quick example of how I saw this play out for an organization that I’ve been working with for the last year. This is a data analytics firm, and they had been planning on doing a big organizational...
by Brandi Olson | Leadership, Planning & Strategy
Servant Leadership In Action: The Language of Outcomes “But really, what does that look like in action?” Joyce, a newly promoted marketing director, posed this question at our very first leadership coaching session. We had been exploring the power of servant...
by Brandi Olson | Leadership, Planning & Strategy, Teams
How Are You Spending Your Change Capital? All of us have change capital. Change capital is like social capital or even economic capital. It’s something that we get to spend, we get to budget, and we get to invest as we navigate responding to change in our lives...
