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Ash Ripley

@ashripley.bsky.social

3 months ago

Serve First, or You're Just Feeding People to the Hallway Servant Leadership works better than shoving your team into danger. Here’s why serving first leads to trust, better outcomes, and fewer metaphorical hallway casualties.

Servant Leadership: the radical idea that maybe you don’t throw the intern into the hallway that eats people.

New post’s up.

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#ServantLeadership #RollForInsight

Ash Ripley

@ashripley.bsky.social

3 months ago

Wild how leadership relies on you to keep the whole operation from falling apart but can't manage a single sentence of feedback. It's like you're an urban legend someone made up to explain all these new drivers.

#BadBossEnergy #LeadershipFail #OperationsLife #FrontlineLeaders #RollForInsight

Ash Ripley

@ashripley.bsky.social

3 months ago

Transactional Leadership: A Leadership Style Built on Deals and Dice Rolls A sharp, fun primer on Transactional Leadership—how clear rules, rewards, and consequences shape behavior, and why it works until it really doesn’t.

Every workplace has that one guy who does something catastrophically stupid and then wants a reward for ‘being bold.’ Probably not the incentive system you want.

New post on Transactional Leadership is here: rollforinsight.net/blog/transac...

#LeadershipLessons #WorkplaceWisdom #RollForInsight

Ash Ripley

@ashripley.bsky.social

4 months ago

Turns Out You Can't Intimidate Burnout You can’t outwork burnout. You have to change how you fight.

Checked my blog stats this morning. The graph looks like a dying earthworm. So yeah, perfect time to write about burnout.

New post: “Turns Out You Can’t Intimidate Burnout.”
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#Leadership #Burnout #RollForInsight

Ash Ripley

@ashripley.bsky.social

4 months ago

N7 DAY 2025 Happy N7 Day, everyone! You guessed it … I come to you with another blog! But each year that I write these, they are important moments of reflection for me. I get to pause and think about how truly…

Happy N7 Day! BioWare says they’re ‘heads-down and focused exclusively on Mass Effect.’ Same. I’ve been heads-down and focused exclusively on Mass Effect since 2007. My family is concerned.

#N7Day #MassEffect #RollForInsight

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Ash Ripley

@ashripley.bsky.social

4 months ago

How to Stop Your Party from Burning Down the Town (and Other Lessons in Focused Leadership) Harry P. Shelley’s 1960 study meets D&D: when the GM stops leading, the town burns. Focused leadership keeps the rhythm that turns chaos into story.

The druid called it “restoring balance.”
I called it the moment I realized focused leadership matters.

Check out the new post and see what happens when Harry P. Shelley meets Dungeons & Dragons.

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#RollForInsight #TabletopWisdom

Ash Ripley

@ashripley.bsky.social

4 months ago

A black marble-textured background featuring a quote in white text: “When the toasters became sentient, it wasn’t a mutiny—it was a mirror.” The quote is attributed to Ash Ripley, with the Roll for Insight logo and website URL in the corner.

Ever wonder what happens when you combine Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive with Zimbardo’s The Lucifer Effect?

Turns out, it explains what happens to your team when nobody's behind the wheel.

Read it here: rollforinsight.net/blog/when-th...

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