# Unpolished Thoughts


## Posts

- [On Defining Your Impact](https://amypearlman.com/on-defining-your-impact/): I've recently changed roles. Before I took this job, someone asked me what impact I wanted to have in it. Not what my title would be.
- [On Growth](https://amypearlman.com/on-growth/): Not every organization says it wants to continuously improve. I work in state government, and that phrase isn't exactly in heavy rotation.
- [On Dolly Parton, Role Models, and Living Out Loud](https://amypearlman.com/on-dolly-parton-role-models-and-living-out-loud/): Dolly Parton died on August 25, at 80, after what her publicist described as a brief battle with cancer.
- [On Adaptive Organizations and the Myth of Agility](https://amypearlman.com/on-adaptive-organizations-and-the-myth-of-agility/): Not long ago, I was in a conversation about blame-free post-mortems.
- [On good and bad feedback and what to do with it](https://amypearlman.com/on-good-and-bad-feedback-and-what-to-do-with-it/): "You're not leaderly."
- [On Communication and Audiences](https://amypearlman.com/on-communication-and-audiences/): Communication is hard.
- [On Leadership Agility](https://amypearlman.com/on-leadership-agility/): When I think about how I am and how I want to be as a leader and as a professional, many of my core behaviors and philosophies align closely with this model...
- [On authenticity](https://amypearlman.com/on-authenticity/): As professionals, we are often shown one model of what it is to be "professional" or "executive."
- [Management: It's Not Our Job to Keep Them In Their Current Chair](https://amypearlman.com/management-its-not-our-job-to-keep-them-in-their-current-chair/): This topic is a little bit about management and leadership, and also recruitment, retention, performance, just simply being a good citizen in the larger industry and community, and being good to your people. For me, it's a keystone to a healthy org and industry community and to who I am as a manager and leader
- [The Role of Support in Technology](https://amypearlman.com/the-role-of-support-in-technology/): Once again, I have been inspired by an online conversation with a friend (oddly enough, same friend) and also by some of the conversations we have been having within my own org.
- [On Respect and Responsibility](https://amypearlman.com/on-respect-and-responsibility/): And here I am, writing a post in the middle of the night because my brain already wrote it and I need to get it out.
- [A gap in my world](https://amypearlman.com/a-gap-in-my-world/): I haven't posted here for a long while -- I actually forgot this was still up -- but I have been getting the writing bug again and I may be putting a few things down here in the coming days and weeks.
- [Why Be Normal? Succeeding As A Professional with ADHD](https://amypearlman.com/why-be-normal-succeeding-as-a-professional-with-adhd/): I have been having many conversations both in person and online about living and succeeding as an ADHD professional.
- [On Allies, Amplification, and Throwing Stones from Glass Houses](https://amypearlman.com/on-allies-amplification-and-throwing-stones-from-glass-houses/): I was reminded of a post I've been meaning to write when I saw the drawing below. It's the truth.
- [On Service and Valuing Those You Serve](https://amypearlman.com/on-service-and-valuing-those-you-serve/): While everyone may not handle situations of life and death at work, we each do serve someone in what we do.

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