Rebecca Garland

Attending to the signals

She is smart…. And she’s paying attention

I was on a call with my colleague Katarina the other day. We had a meeting about leadership and how to create opportunities for our colleagues. At the outset, in those first moments of social connection, she mentioned, in passing the at she has a green thumb, but only for succulents. It’s a simple admission, the kind of self-deprecating confession gardeners make when comparing their brown thumbs to someone else’s greenhouse abundance. I enjoyed the specificity. Not that she can’t keep...