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INSIGHTS & MUSINGS
FROM THE BRAIN OF ALISON GRETZ
Navigating the Modern Career Playground
Continue reading: Navigating the Modern Career PlaygroundNavigating the Modern Career Playground In the rapidly-evolving landscape of careers, it’s clear that the traditional straight-and-narrow career ladder has become a relic of the past. The modern career path is more akin to a playground, filled with intricate twists, turns, and the freedom to explore. This holds especially true in the design world, where…
Fractional leadership
Continue reading: Fractional leadershipHave you been hearing folks in your network use the phrase “fractional executive” to refer to themselves? I first noticed this phrase popping up more and more about 6 months ago. As I’ve launched out as an entrepreneur this year, I found myself curious about this emerging way of working, how it differs from consulting,…
The Broken Three-legged Stool
Continue reading: The Broken Three-legged StoolProduct Design & UX industry awakening. Collaborative product teams promise broken. Each discipline brings biases and skillsets.
Middle Managers are key to employee culture
Continue reading: Middle Managers are key to employee cultureCulture plays a critical role in nurturing a healthy environment for employees in our workplaces. Culture can be defined as the beliefs, behaviors, and interactions between individuals and teams. As leaders, communicating in ways that uphold a healthy culture have large impacts on these factors over time. This includes setting clear expectations, removing barriers, and…
reconnect to your team’s purpose
Continue reading: reconnect to your team’s purposeAs we continue to ride the waves of post-pandemic mass corporate change, the sudden rise in popularity of AI technology and emerging generational differences in the workplace there is an opportunity for leaders at any level to lift their heads out of the day-to-day chaos and look ahead at proactively creating their environment for a…
Reflections on Within 2018
Continue reading: Reflections on Within 2018For the first time in a long time I feel incredibly inspired and at peace. It took a gathering in warm Palm Springs of sixty or so of the most creative female leaders in tech to cause a stir in me of something that has been too tired to spark. It took four days of…
The Tipping Point of Burnout vs. Self Care
Continue reading: The Tipping Point of Burnout vs. Self CareHow we all function as our best selves ebbs and flows situationally and in context of internal and external stressors. The Yerkes-Dodson law examines the relationship between stress stimuli and performance, with performance increasing to a peak with the “right” amount of stress, then declining into burnout
Knowing When You Are Incompetent
Continue reading: Knowing When You Are IncompetentWe can be simultaneously unconsciously incompetent in one area of our lives, and consciously competent in another.
We Should Quit Should-ing Ourselves
Continue reading: We Should Quit Should-ing OurselvesLet’s rebel against the word “should”. I’m pushing back against all the “should” usage in my world — both self-imposed and externally forced upon me.
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