Iโm equal parts excited and trepidatious to announce that Iโve started a new publication on Substack called Better Team Habits. As I mentioned in my first post there, the intent is to create a more focused and fresh space for content and conversations about teamwork, leadership, strategy execution, and organizational dynamics.
Iโve long resisted separating team topics and conversations from individual topics and conversations. Since the early days of Productive Flourishing, itโs been a both/and conversation in my mind. Since most people work in teams and many of our readers start as or inevitably end up in leadership and management positions, itโs made the most sense (to me) to keep it as one global conversation.
A few different forces came into play that prompted me to think harder and make the different and harder choice to split the spaces:
I often say โWhen in doubt, choose the simpler option.โ
The far simpler option compared to all that repositioning, shoehorning, rebuilding, and segmenting was to let Productive Flourishing be what itโs become โ a site that helps creative types thrive in their individual work and lives by focusing on foundations โ and to build another space focused on thriving with and in your team.
In another post, Iโll talk about why I chose Substack over some of the other options, but as soon as I made the decision that this was the next step, I felt a relief I hadnโt felt since 2015. I donโt have to hold back in either space. I can go full-in to my body of work in the team, leadership, and org space on Better Team Habits and I can go full-in to my body of work in personal foundations here.
Better Team Habits is new and doesnโt yet have much content. Between the book, content from here that Iโll revise, and whatโs coming up from my fieldwork every day, I have a lot Iโm looking forward to sharing. If you like watching things evolve and donโt want to feel like youโre catching up, you can join the journey now.
And, as far as whatโs going to change here on PF, expect more resources that will help knowledge workers, creators, and entrepreneurs do their best work. PF has always served the creative class and weโre going to get better at doing that.
Itโs too early to tell how itโs all going to work out and whether Iโll wish I had done this a long time ago or if Iโll wish Iโd never done it. But Iโm most engaged when Iโm actually exploring and figuring it out rather than wondering, hedging, and holding back. So itโs time to experiment. And Iโll be sharing what Iโm learning along the way here and on Better Team Habits.
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