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How a brag sheet amplifies your narrative in key career moments

At Sparklos, we believe a brag sheet is one of the best tools for owning your narrative and advancing your career. ✨ The most important decisions about your career happen when you’re not in the roo...

Tl;dr Book Review — Radical Candor by Kim Scott

Tl;dr – ★★★★☆ We previously posted about Kim Scott’s book Just Work. In some ways, Radical Candor is a simpler introduction to the themes in Just Work. That’s not to say that it’s shallow — the boo...

Tl;dr Book Review — Just Work by Kim Scott

Tl;dr – ★★★★☆ This is a great introduction to workplace injustice — how to recognize and fix it. The book is broken out into three parts: We’ve broken down each of these sections in our full review...

Tl;dr Book Review — Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip & Dan Heath

Tl;dr — ★★★★★ (🏆 FAV of 2022) When we play the role of business manager for our clients or work with Chiefs of Staff, we're often hyper focused on efficiencies of systems and how information gets ...

Putting purpose to work

A few years back, the CEO of a digital healthcare company announced to employees his decision to walk away from a $22M deal, the largest customer contract in the company’s history. The customer’s e...

Time to invest in your org purpose? Read the signs.

Is your organization purpose framed on the walls of your sparsely populated office space? Or maybe it’s buried in your company’s articles of incorporation that no one reads? If so, you could be pay...

Tl;dr Book Review — Dare to Lead by Brené Brown

Tl;dr – ★★★★★ We're sure you’ve heard of Brené Brown at this point — and if you haven’t, where have you been? It feels like her TED Talks and books are everywhere. She's referenced in many of the o...

Tl;dr Book Review — Smarter Faster Better by Charles Duhigg

Tl;dr – ★★★★★ Every once in a while, we read a book that defies our Tl;dr concept — a book that we want everyone to read in full. We loved this book. "It was one of my favorite books I read all yea...

What one missed field goal can teach us about leadership

There's a set of foundational challenges every leader must solve for to drive organization and business success. A leadership breakdown on Monday Night Football If you missed week one of Monday Nig...

The growing gap between leader goals and achievements

It’s time to close the Leader Achievement Gap (LAG) to help organizations thrive. Last spring, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon ordered employees back to the office full time, citing the magic that ...

Tl;dr Book Review — Rhythm by Patrick Thean

Tl;dr – ★★★☆☆ There’s some solid advice wrapped up in this book – but there’s also lots of fluff. Essentially, Thean proposes three types of “rhythms” to accelerate growth — think, plan, and do. Th...