Why does quitting your job make it more enjoyable?
Why do people have the best days of their jobs when they’ve just quit? And what can it tell us about how we relate to work? Every week I spend my days …
Doctor's Note
A mix of essays and commentary about design, innovation, technology, society, coaching, personal and leadership development. Since 1996.
Management & Leadership as Slow-Motion facilitation
Instead of thinking you have to become a business suit as a design leader, what if you think about management and leadership as slow-motion facilitation, using …
Starting at the End + Avoiding Pointless Meetings
Every week I spend my days coaching design leaders. In these videos, I reflect upon common themes and questions that came up. This week, getting started by …
Scaling Yourself + Two Tricks for Clarity & Stakeholder Management
Every week I spend my days coaching design leaders. And in these short videos, I reflect on common themes and questions that come up. Last week. I talked a bit …
Managing Up and Meta-Communication
I spend my days coaching design leaders, helping them improve themselves and their organisations. Since so many common themes and interesting questions come up, …
Are you my 100th coachee?
Although I have been mentoring designers of all levels for years as part of my work, I am formally in the fifth year of my design leadership coaching practice. …
Mediocrity and the current state of design
I wrote a long essay in my newsletter about mediocrity and the current state of design. It was largely in response to Robert Fabricant’s The big design …
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