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Venkatesh Rao
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Conversational account. For work follow @ribbonfarm, @breaking_smart, @artofgig. Tweets are 90% vacuous views, apathetically held. Mediocritopian. IKEA builder.

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    1. The Art of Gig‏ @artofgig May 27
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      A special issue: Here's a guest issue by @tomcritchlow offering a second opinion on sparring-based consulting. Sparring as Tenure:https://artofgig.substack.com/p/sparring-as-tenure …

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    2. Jeffrey MacIntyre  🎯‏ @jeffmacintyre May 28
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      Replying to @artofgig @vgr @tomcritchlow

      So much to ❤️ here, Tom and Venkatesh! 👏 I’d like to chip in two cents on my view at the ~20 years indie mark, where niche forms of doing (or supervisory doing) stage an important comeback, and are the proving grounds, and prompt!, to a kind of sparring...

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    3. Jeffrey MacIntyre  🎯‏ @jeffmacintyre May 28
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      Replying to @jeffmacintyre @artofgig and

      unavailable anywhere else in the external SME market that is also compulsory to engagement success.🤠 That is not always where I live, to be sure. But it’s the trend line on my best, most satisfying, and probably most lasting and appreciated work.

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    4. Tom Critchlow‏ @tomcritchlow May 28
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      Replying to @jeffmacintyre @artofgig @vgr

      Interested to hear more about this - there's certainly more models than the linear path I outlined in the post. Lots of room to blend doing/thinking/self-directed especially as your work evolves and meets new industries / types of work

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    5. Jeffrey MacIntyre  🎯‏ @jeffmacintyre May 28
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      Replying to @tomcritchlow @artofgig @vgr

      I was present for the mainstreaming of one field of practice, and putting a wee dent in another now. Of course Venkatesh punctured this piety in the first two issues of Art...

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 28
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      Replying to @jeffmacintyre @tomcritchlow @artofgig

      The supervisory thing is interesting... it's one of the things we're doing with @yak_collective ... I haven't managed a team in a decade, but am doing so now... 20+ people contributing to one project. Feels like atrophied muscles being worked again.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 28
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      Not sure how strong my appetite for managing teams is anymore, but maybe it will come back and I'll re-acquire a taste for it. But only if there's a way to do it that preserves indie-ness all around and doesn't just reproduce the team practices of paycheck firms

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    8. Jeffrey MacIntyre  🎯‏ @jeffmacintyre May 28
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      Replying to @vgr @tomcritchlow and

      Thing is, you’re not managing so much as bringing along a manager on a speculative act of co-creation. Something equivalent happens w exec/s more tied to sparring rituals. It’s practically woo-woo in corp terms and somewhat inverts hierarchy in sussing out better ways of doing.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr May 28
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      Replying to @jeffmacintyre @tomcritchlow and

      I've had a few long-running clients use me to sort of open up another channel of management with their teams, by having me do a series of 1:1 sessions with them etc. I think of it is as sparring++ since I typically don't have any line management style responsibilities

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        1. Jeffrey MacIntyre  🎯‏ @jeffmacintyre May 28
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          My shorthand for this model is to call it ‘embedded’ since client and consultant both effectively shadow one another and often there’s a pilot or POC within the assignment that entails a process walk... refiguring the way things have historically been done.

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