Author: Barrett Brooks

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What do the people with the most fulfilling career trajectories have in common? The most obvious trend: top performers act like owners. Performance leads to…

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In Every Good Endeavor, Timothy Keller introduces the book by referencing back to Robert Bellah’s Habits of the Heart, starting with a passage on the perils of individualism…

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I get in bed and pull the covers up around me. I roll over to tell my wife good night. She’s already fast asleep and…

Am I enough?
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When things are going well, it’s easy to wait on the other shoe to drop. “See, I knew I wasn’t doing enough,” I expect to…

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In his classic management book, Good to Great, Jim Collins shares an idea called a flywheel. That concept can help you and your company define…

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My wife was busy on that Saturday afternoon in 2014, so I pulled out my list of my friends in Atlanta and sent a flurry…

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19% of remote workers say that loneliness is their #1 struggle with working remotely according to Buffer and company’s 2019 State of Remote Work report….

Spilled ice cream - the ultimate mistake
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March 1, 2018. I won’t forget that date any time soon because it was the day I made my first major mistake as COO… and…

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As a team grows from the early stages when everything feels fun and crazy into a more mature phase of predictable growth, team structure has…

Friends don't let friends introduce themselves poorly
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“My name is Barrett Brooks. I live in Portland, Oregon with my wife and two dogs. I work at a software company. Really happy to…