Category: Weird Wisdom
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Diversity is Perspective.
Last week I wrote that you shouldn’t treat your people as a collective but as a collection of individuals. Here’s what makes that more than a turn of phrase: it’s the only way collective intelligence ever actually emerges. That sounds…
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Let’s Explore It
Most of us were taught that success comes from having the right answers. The smartest person.The expert.The one who knows. But life, leadership, and meaningful work rarely operate that way. The people who navigate complexity well aren’t always the ones…
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How do you engage new perspectives in your team?
Every new team member brings something valuable. Not just skills or experience, but a way of seeing; new questions they think are worth asking, assumptions they haven’t yet been told not to challenge, and approaches that feel obvious to them…
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Difference Has Potential
Difference has potential. But potential, on its own, is just possibility sitting in the room; unspoken, overlooked, and ultimately wasted. The real question isn’t whether your team has diverse perspectives. It’s whether those perspectives are actually doing anything. Turning difference…
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The Failure Myth That’s Costing Your Team Everything
How does your workplace actually treat failure? Not the official line, what really happens. When failure means blame, people stop taking risks. They stick to safe ideas, hide doubt, and design projects to succeed on paper instead of discovering anything…
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Collective Vs a Collection of Individuals
How do you talk about the people you work with? Not to their faces; in your head, in your emails, in your meetings. Do you say “the board needs to understand…” or “the IT crowd just don’t get it…” or…
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Celebrate Dissent
Dissenting voices can feel disruptive. But they’re often exactly what teams need. They challenge assumptions.They surface blind spots.They spark conversations that wouldn’t happen otherwise. When teams welcome unconventional ideas, friction transforms into traction. Weird Wisdom® at Work sees these moments…
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Why Being Comfortable with Unknowns Is a Career Superpower
That gap right before you speak up or try something new? It’s not a danger zone. It’s where your best thinking happens. Most of us were taught to close that gap fast; plan, predict, chase certainty. But comfort with the…
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Don’t Rely on Difference
Difference alone doesn’t get you better decisions. It just creates the potential for discomfort. You can surround yourself with smart, diverse thinkers and still get the same answers, if you never really use them. What matters isn’t the difference in…
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Tension Isn’t the Problem
Tension gets a bad reputation in teams because it exposes you. So, you rush to smooth it out. Manage it. Damp it down. You call that “good leadership.” But tension isn’t the problem. Avoiding it is. Tension is simply a…
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