Category: Weird Wisdom
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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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What Is Weird Wisdom — And Why Should You Care at Work?
Your “weird” isn’t the problem at work. It might be the answer. Most workplaces reward sameness, so we filter ourselves, hold back ideas, and stay quiet. The organisation loses exactly the thinking it needs most. This video introduces Weird Wisdom:…
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Hesitation is Rarely About Personality
In recent times I’ve seen Leaders become risk adverse, they seem reluctant to go against the prevalent winds. When I’ve explored this with them they explain their silence by saying they’re introverted. Not apologetically. Matter‑of‑factly. As though that explanation is…
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Culture is Compound Interest
Your values aren’t what you publish. They’re what you tolerate. Culture doesn’t change because you announced it. It changes when you stop letting the same small behaviours slide; because you’re busy, because you’re tired, because it’s “not the right time”.…
