A short reflection on noticing what is already working

Most HR leaders I work with are saying something like this without hearing themselves. The restructure nobody wants to call a restructure. The AI rollout. The new wellbeing policy. There is always something to land — and the unspoken job spec is that the person doing the landing has somehow already worked out their own feelings about it.

This week's short "Note to Self" to keep your thinking on track… Note to self: "I just need to get through this week" isn't a plan. It's a pattern. Most high performers I work with say some version of this sentence without noticing. One more push. One more deadline. One more quarter. The tunnel always has an end - it's just that a new tunnel tends to start the moment you step out of the last one. The sentence itself isn't the problem. The problem is when it becomes the operating system. When...