Launching Better Team Habits on Substack

I’m equal parts excited and trepidatious to announce that I’ve 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.

I’ve long resisted separating team topics and conversations from individual topics and conversations. Since the early days of Productive Flourishing, it’s 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, it’s 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:

1. Leaders, managers, and people curious about team topics having a harder time feeling at home here on PF and finding what they need.
2. Our discovery that Momentum is better considered a part of the Momentum Planner ecosystem rather than its own brand/spinoff prompting us to re-release the Momentum Planners.
3. How all the content rolling out to support Team Habits would either swing the pendulum too far towards team topics (which metrics show 1/2 of our audience is less interested in than individual topics) or create a scenario where we’re publishing more and making it even harder for people to find what they need.
4. My curiosities about some of the new platforms (Substack, Ghost, and Medium) and wanting to use them vs. merely knowing about them. The tools and tech make it so much easier to publish that the old “but how am I going to have the time?” worry feels less weighty.
5. The sheer amount of work and rebuilding required to segment our readers, curate per-segment content, change our designs, and then do the same across all of PF’s social channels.

I often say “When in doubt, choose the simpler option.”

The far simpler option compared to all that repositioning, shoehorning, rebuilding, and segmenting was to let Productive Flourishing be what it’s become — a site that helps creative types thrive in their individual work and lives by focusing on foundations — and to build another space focused on thriving with and in your team.

In another post, I’ll 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 hadn’t felt since 2015. I don’t 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 doesn’t yet have much content. Between the book, content from here that I’ll revise, and what’s coming up from my fieldwork every day, I have a lot I’m looking forward to sharing. If you like watching things evolve and don’t want to feel like you’re catching up, you can join the journey now.

And, as far as what’s 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 we’re going to get better at doing that.

It’s too early to tell how it’s all going to work out and whether I’ll wish I had done this a long time ago or if I’ll wish I’d never done it. But I’m most engaged when I’m actually exploring and figuring it out rather than wondering, hedging, and holding back. So it’s time to experiment. And I’ll be sharing what I’m learning along the way here and on Better Team Habits.

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