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John J Masse

The team focused product leader that emphasizes the importance of habitual learning and leadership through influence and servitude.

📍 New Fairfield, Connecticut https://www.jjmasse.com/

Redefining Accountability: Strengthening Teams Through Mutual Responsibility

Accountability in management often takes a conventional path — from the manager to their team members. This linear approach has long been the bedrock of organizational structure. However, the evolving landscape of team dynamics calls for a shift in this perspective. The future of effective team management lies in fostering accountability

Stop Saying 'Should'! How This One Word is Ruining Your Relationships and Business Negotiations

Ever feel defensive or pressured when someone tells you what you "should" do? This simple word can damage relationships and tank business deals. Understand why "should" is so harmful and how to improve your communication for more positive outcomes.

Living with Challenging Emotions

Written in partnership with AI, inspired by an exercise I am developing to perform a personal emotional evaluation. This piece is somewhat fluff, but there are insights here. Using the term "living" instead of "dealing" because success is not the idea of confronting our emotional mind

Imposter Syndrome

Imposter Syndrome comes up quite often in groups of people that depend on social equity as part of their value proposition. For example, when we ask people to collaborate on a solution or someone is managing other people. It is natural for people to compare themselves with those around them.

Warm up the mind

We wouldn’t jump into a foot race without warming the body with some light activity first. Many settings require the use of the Mind, yet we call the Mind to action with no preparation. Mental performance requires a complex orchestration of sensory and thought management while, in an ideal

Wonder

Wonder invites curiosity and what-ifs. Wonder is often lost in our places of work because people are more often than not doing what they are asked to do, with little to no input. Without being invited to contribute in ways other than performing the activity, people have to find

Sense of Shared Context

Over time, systems of people develop their language to describe their work. The domain language of a human system helps it with explaining common concepts and, in the best cases, adds specificity to rather complex subjects. Unfortunately, though, human systems are changing all of the time, which brings new contributors

Accountability Builds Teams

There is no stronger bond between people than shared responsibility for one another. How leaders design an environment that expects human cooperation will affect how the people around them develop a sense of accountability between one another, or in some high-tension environments, may inadvertently achieve high levels of responsibility

Attention

Attention is a commodity often overlooked by all except those who understand how to capitalize on it. Attention is the ability to maintain a selected subject for a prolonged period. Attention allows us to align all of our senses into a single direction putting every bit of human capabilities to

Anxiety

Anxiety is an emotion people feel when something they care about is in a state of uncertainty. People often associate feelings of anxiousness as a detractor to their lives when anxiety can be a powerful emotion that invites us to ask more profound questions of ourselves. Avoiding anxiety or wishing