Author: Rachel Hanson

Embrace some friction. Modern culture is looking for every possible way to decrease it. Modern ways to avoid friction? Scroll on your phone rather than sit in boredom. Doordash your meals. Place an online order. Check your email constantly from your phone so you can respond within .05 seconds. Some of them are helpful ways … Continue reading Embrace friction

Life is a series of trade offs. We are not immortal, our time will end. There will be many possible lives we COULD lead that we do not. This becomes a problem when we do not decisively choose a path and walk it with vigor. Instead we often sit at the trail head, never really … Continue reading Trade offs

Or, as Coach Wooden (the GOAT) put it “be quick, don’t hurry.” Easy to see this play out in sports. The brain starts to move faster than the body, the body starts to move faster than the play requires. So a routine ground ball turns into a booted error. Slow it down, be intentional about … Continue reading Slow is smooth, smooth is fast

What’s the difference between a leader with a vision for change and an individual risk taker? The leader creates conditions that make it safe to take manageable risks. This goes right back to Google’s study on psychological safety. Leaders drive for change…sometimes BIG change.  AND they both do it in an iterative fashion (rather than … Continue reading Risks

"We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is neccessary to sustain our life, because to us it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself." - Nietzsche You have enough time. I have enough time. It's only … Continue reading Time

Marry the mundane. That was the big melody line in a team practice the other day. I hear lots of excuses when people don't get their productive actions done. I'm so busy (that never changes), life got in the way, blah blah blah. All BS. Do it or don't, but stop making excuses and lying … Continue reading Excuses

I believe we only get one beautiful life to live. It's written all over my core to wake up and live it well, and to help others do the same. I believe it's far better to expend rather than conserve energy, to do hard things well rather than half ass or take the easy way, … Continue reading One shot

It's far too rare as a leader for a member of your team to bring you hard truth. That is a powerful and pivotal moment in the life of a team. Your team will drastically change their behavior based on how you respond to that moment. They will become more comfortable or they will become … Continue reading Comfortable or careful