


Permission to Plan: Enter Blackout Days
In a recent online The Together Leader class, Aisha, a Vice President at IDEA Public Schools, opened our class by reminding all participants that they were in a Blackout Day, and that there should be no incoming communications from their internal team. Of course,...
Maia’s Mailbag: Slack. . . love, hate, or somewhere in between?
My longtime friend Sorby Grant, Chief Program Officer at the Center for Resilience in New Orleans, reached out recently with some light anguish around her team’s use of Slack. It’s a challenge I’m sure many folks can relate to, so I thought I’d post my response to the...Together Tradeoffs: Using Togetherness to Make Choices
Occasionally, Togetherness gets a bit of a rep for being inflexible. But we believe the opposite around here. As you’ve heard me say before, “The more planned you are, the more flexible you can be!” (PS I’m thinking I should print this on a shirt! Would you wear that?...