No fixing!

Great post from Hazel Weakly talking about how to start at a new company with care, attention, and respect, while also making a big impact quickly. Among her key points is that new hires should avoid trying to fix things—“I know you want to. Stop it. Bad. No fixy.”—opting instead for listening deeply, inquiring into what you learn, and only proposing to fix things if everyone agrees it needs fixing. This is a neat and wise inversion of the usual advice to ask for forgiveness instead of permission: we tend to assume forgiveness will be faster, but, to borrow from adrienne maree brown, moving at the speed of trust often gets us where we want to go sooner than we may have guessed. And we get to build strong, resilient relationships along the way. Win-win.