Keeping your head when the launch goes sideways. Finding a path forward when there's no playbook and your Slack is on fire. You can't vibe code your way to any of that. Here's what actually works.
Did anyone else's parents tell them that if they sat in front of the TV all day their brain would turn to mush? Turns out there might be something to that, courtesy of one of nature's strangest creatures...
What if you could build the perfect team? How would you do that? Google asked itself the same question. They launched Project Aristotle and studied 180 teams to figure out how to engineer the perfect team. Their assumptions going in seemed pretty reasonable — the best teams must have the smartest...
How do we strengthen the structural fiber of our teams? That's what I was tasked with as I landed at LaGuardia, prepared for the drive out to Long Island to run a game day for a corporate supplier.
Silos rarely form out of ego. They form when incentives, timelines, and pressures pull teams in different directions. Put two people in a high-stakes challenge with partial information and shared responsibility, and something becomes clear very quickly: you cannot succeed from your own corner.
Law schools are putting D&D on the syllabus. Turns out dice rolls teach imaginative problem-solving, collaboration, persuasion, and soft skills lawyers actually need.
The last time team building exercises were updated, your computer was chiming "You've Got Mail", the Macarena was the #1 song, and we were all rewinding our VHS tapes before returning them to Blockbuster.
Keeping your head when the launch goes sideways. Finding a path forward when there's no playbook and your Slack is on fire. You can't vibe code your way to any of that. Here's what actually works.
Did anyone else's parents tell them that if they sat in front of the TV all day their brain would turn to mush? Turns out there might be something to that, courtesy of one of nature's strangest creatures...
What if you could build the perfect team? How would you do that? Google asked itself the same question. They launched Project Aristotle and studied 180 teams to figure out how to engineer the perfect team. Their assumptions going in seemed pretty reasonable — the best teams must have the smartest...
How do we strengthen the structural fiber of our teams? That's what I was tasked with as I landed at LaGuardia, prepared for the drive out to Long Island to run a game day for a corporate supplier.
Silos rarely form out of ego. They form when incentives, timelines, and pressures pull teams in different directions. Put two people in a high-stakes challenge with partial information and shared responsibility, and something becomes clear very quickly: you cannot succeed from your own corner.
On January 1st, while many were sleeping off New Year's Eve, I was headed to the airport to fly to Atlanta for the inaugural event of Dungeon Master University. As a Dungeon Master (sometimes called a Storyteller or Game Master), I was really excited to meet 100 fellow...
