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Base Teams vs. Expedition Teams (opens the original)
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There are two kinds of teams: base teams and expedition teams.Base teams work in the known, the predictable, and the routine. Their job is to create or manage a predictable outcome, process, or spec. If they do that, they’re successful.Expedition teams work in VUCA (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous) arenas. Even when they know where they’re going, they’re not sure what they’re going to find there. And they sometimes don’t even know how to translate or transport what they find back to
Learning to Live and Work with New Limits (opens the original)
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I didn’t expect the second post on TiP to be about my health journey, but it’s one of the major catalysts to some shifts in my thinking and being over the last few years. So we might as well get it on deck, even if it’s a little longer than I anticipate most of these posts will be.In late 2024, as part of finally going to the Veterans Administration (VA) for some service-related issues I’ve been dealing with since my deployment in the mid-2000s, I discovered that I had all but one of the markers
Put the Recommendation Second (opens the original)
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Getting Back to Thinking In Public (opens the original)
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I’m starting a new daily-ish section called Thinking in Public (hereafter, TiP).Here’s the summary:Shorter, daily-ish posts where I think out loud about whatever I’m chewing on. More unfiltered and unpolished, likely including more shop talk and personal wonderings alongside core themes.I could list a lot of audience-facing and strategic reasons why I’m doing this, but they all cut against doing it equally well. The main reason I want to do it is because I’m creatively constipated after a few ye
REPLAY: Get Your Backing Back (opens the original)
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Thanks to everyone who joined us for our September Monthly Momentum Call! We're trying something new this month. Instead of a quick recap, we've written up the key takeaways from our conversation, a few ways to put them into practice, and the resources we mentioned along the way.We hope you’ll join us for our next Monthly Momentum Call on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. PDT.Session HighlightsWhat came up in this month's conversation1.Flow comes from conditions you set up, not from ope
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