Do the work you were made for.
For weeks, I’ve been watching the methodical dismantling of the house across the street. Like all of nature, we ourselves are in never-ending cycles of growth, blooming, fullness, fading and dying. These hundred year-old Toronto houses, too. Transitioning from falling apart to work-in-progress to Totally New. But first, destruction. Destruction might seem like a strong …
A quick business history lesson: when Starbucks was created, its vision was to create the third place. Not home, not work, but another place. It’s come a long way from that vision – no offense, now it’s just another global fast food chain. But it was a great idea to build from. That third place …
Many people are having a moment of reckoning right now. In the uncomfortably bright light of pandemic life, we see more clearly – what has and has not been working at work. About a year ago I wrote a series called “what is work” and the third installment was about how your work is changing …