Sublime

A world of flat organizations and tumultuous business conditions—and that’s our world—punishes fixed skills and prizes elastic ones. What an individual does day to day on the job now must stretch across functional boundaries. Designers analyze. Analysts design. Marketers create. Creators market. And when the next technologies emerge and

that I spend a significant portion of my days trying to coax others to part with resources.

in a moment of procrastination masquerading as an act of reflection, I decided to examine how I spend my time.

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected. —ROBERT FROST

As elasticity of skills becomes more common, one particular category of skill it seems always to encompass is moving others.

3. Hold office hours

with what others need.