coaching for clarity and courage
Everyone who works in health systems knows that if you design your system around exceptional people, it won’t work. You can’t assume that people will be brave, wise, or unerring. You need to assume that people will be ordinary. Sometimes […]
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This, I suppose, falls into the category of something brave to do. Succeeding at it will certainly make you more brave. These are two super-simple scripts for negotiating salary when you are offered a job. This is 101-level stuff, for […]
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One constant of international development work is the report. So many reports, analyses, briefers, and reviews. And every one of those documents has to go through multiple rounds of comments and revisions. Early on, I noticed that sometimes the comments […]
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First, let me tell you that if you joined Peace Corps you are already incredibly brave. Moving to an unknown place to live in poverty just for the chance to help people. Brave as hell. For real. But maybe you […]
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The odds are stacked against us. Global systems of capitalism and governance are very, very broken. Not to mention climate change and the way all of our antibiotics are ceasing to work. I am not going to pretend you […]
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Brave. Not a long word, but a big one. A big, scary word, that implies reaching for important things and taking serious risks. But it’s a big, scary world, too. And that world needs us to be brave enough to […]
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