Making Yourself Redundant
There's a change in perspective that only loss can bring. I saw it when my dad died. I felt it again when my brother and then my brother-in-law both died within a year of each other.
Read PostPerspectives & Insights
Leadership thinking, coaching insights, and ideas worth sitting with — from Amy Hutchinson, MBA.
There's a change in perspective that only loss can bring. I saw it when my dad died. I felt it again when my brother and then my brother-in-law both died within a year of each other.
Read PostI wasn't prepared for how much leadership wisdom was packed into Ted Lasso Season 4, Episode 9.
Read PostTed Lasso Season 4, Episode 8 got me talking to the TV—and then to Travis during our entire evening walk.
Read PostTed Lasso Season 4, Episode 7 took me longer to crack than most. On the surface it's a lighter episode — lots of humor, not a lot of obvious "leadership lesson" moments.
Read PostCan we talk about how badly Jamie Tartt butchered that Voltaire quote in Ted Lasso this week and how it might be the smartest moment of the whole episode?
Read PostTed Lasso just gave me the best reframe of a PIP I've ever heard, and I didn't even see it coming.
Read PostHere's what stuck with me from Ted Lasso Season 4 Episode 4: the team is winning. Technically, on paper, things are fine. But there's a blowup in the locker room, the cliques finally break out into the open.
Read PostSeason 4, Episode 3 of Ted Lasso wrecked me a little, and I've been chewing on why.
Read PostTed Lasso is back, and episode 2 gave me a leadership lesson I've lived through more times than I can count: Be curious, not judgmental.
Read PostTed Lasso Season 4, Episode 1 gave me a lot to sit with, but one moment stuck: Ted's mom telling him it's important for a son to see his father feel passionate about something. That's it. That's the whole nudge she gives him to take the coach job.
Read PostSeason 3 of Ted Lasso hit different for me. It landed right in the middle of leading a team I have since handed off, and it forced a question I couldn't shake.
Read PostPut your own oxygen mask on first. Then help the person next to you.
Read PostIt took me watching Ted Lasso season 1 more than 10 times (literally) before I could watch the "Be Curious, Not Judgmental" darts scene with Ted vs. Rupert without weeping.
Read PostManagers stretched thin, caught in a loop of solving, deciding, directing — and wondering why their teams still didn't feel fully engaged. Here's what I believe: that loop isn't a people problem. It's a mindset problem.
Read PostWe spend so much time in our heads — building spreadsheets, running scenarios, seeking external validation — that we forget we carry an internal intelligence that has been quietly pattern-matching every experience we've ever lived through.
Read PostMost people think optimism is a personality trait. Science says it's a habit of thought — and you can change it. The shift from "I always mess this up" to "That didn't work this time" isn't denial. It's accuracy.
Read PostThat's what bad feedback does. It doesn't just miss — it lands. It sticks. It quietly shapes what people believe is possible for themselves. Most bad feedback doesn't come from bad people. It comes from people who were never taught a better way.
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