Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Just saw leadership posted a big heartfelt "We SEE YOU" message above the urinal in the bathroom. Incredible. Truly moving. Talking about seeing your team's effort in the one place you are explicitly trying to avoid eye contact is certainly a strategy. 010
Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 08/12/2025Servant Leadership: the radical idea that maybe you don’t throw the intern into the hallway that eats people. New post’s up. rollforinsight.net/blog/serve-f... #ServantLeadership #RollForInsightrollforinsight.netServe First, or You're Just Feeding People to the HallwayServant Leadership works better than shoving your team into danger. Here’s why serving first leads to trust, better outcomes, and fewer metaphorical hallway casualties. 010
Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Wild 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 010
Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Turns out you can’t motivate humans with Skittles alone. Learning this in real time. 010
Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Every 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 #RollForInsightrollforinsight.netTransactional Leadership: A Leadership Style Built on Deals and Dice RollsA sharp, fun primer on Transactional Leadership—how clear rules, rewards, and consequences shape behavior, and why it works until it really doesn’t. 000
Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 18/11/2025If there's anyone I know who could accidentally start a cult, it's you. Charismatic, mysterious, creature of the darkness. You ARE the mushroom. 110
Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Nothing teaches you transformational leadership faster than watching five adults pledge loyalty to a sentient nightlight. rollforinsight.net/blog/why-my-...rollforinsight.netWhy My Players Followed a Glowing Mushroom (and What It Teaches Us About Transformational Leadership)A glowing mushroom accidentally demonstrates transformational leadership, revealing how real leaders inspire, empower, and avoid slipping into villain arcs. 010
Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 14/11/20256. Memoirs of the Swampwitch of Three Mouths 7. An Inquiry into Spontaneous Undeath Among Bureaucrats 8. Fungal Theology and the Spores of Divine Will 9. When Frogs Dream: The Amphibian Oracle 10. The Practical Almanac of Impossible Weather 000
Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 13/11/20251. A Compendium of Mildly Inconvenient Hexes 2. The Bog's Memory: A Study of Recurrent Drownings 3. Culinary Transmutations, Vol. II: Turning Lead into Lunch 4. On the proper Containment of Whispering Bones 5. The Map That Hates Being Read 000
Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 12/11/2025To be clear, it's just my night person that doesn't want to be a cat with you. 010
Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Oh man, I wish I'd seen this earlier today. Would've saved everyone a LOT of trouble. 000
Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Checked 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.” rollforinsight.net/blog/turns-o... #Leadership #Burnout #RollForInsightrollforinsight.netTurns Out You Can't Intimidate BurnoutYou can’t outwork burnout. You have to change how you fight. 021
Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Playing Stardew with my wife @therapistapproved.bsky.social right now. I'm gonna marry Shane. I can fix him. 111
Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 08/11/2025I mean, the trick is finding the right one. I searched for “how to lead with self-awareness,” and got a video on swapping the transmission in a 2014 Mitsubishi Mirage. Which, honestly, is not the worst metaphor. 000
Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Writing about burnout with Maslach and Leiter, but my brain keeps changing it to ‘Malsach.’ Classic Depersonalization, am I right? 010
Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Happy 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 blog.bioware.com/2025/11/07/n...blog.bioware.comN7 DAY 2025Happy 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… 051
Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 06/11/2025Seriously. I feel like this should be standardized. 010
Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025I was just thinking about Psycho Goreman and how sometimes the line between a horror movie and a family movie is just how sincerely someone says "You're welcome." 031
Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025Some days it feels like we’ve just been chasing those buckets of syrup off into the sunset. 110
Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 03/11/2025The 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. rollforinsight.net/blog/how-to-... #RollForInsight #TabletopWisdomrollforinsight.netHow 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. 010
Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 31/10/2025Boss dressed as Gru and everyone else came as minions today, which feels less like a costume and more like a confession. 020
Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 30/10/2025Been playing Stardew Valley with my wife and just realized it’s secretly a leadership simulator. Success isn’t about efficiency—it’s remembering birthdays, showing up with the right gift, and knowing who hates mayo. No wonder I have more friends in Pelican Town than in real life. 000
Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Oh man, I miss when “leading man energy” meant owning two shirts and paying rent on time. 000
Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Ever 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... #Leadership #RollForInsight 000
Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Oof. We're only a few rewrites away from Pennywise joining the Avengers, aren't we? 110
Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Good to know my exhaustion is statistically significant. 000
Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 23/10/2025I’m not saying this is late-stage capitalism’s fault, but I’m also not not seeing a pattern here 000
Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 21/10/2025I was reading a leadership paper and realized it was describing "Batman Forever." This shouldn't be my niche, and yet here we are. New post: "Authentic Leadership, as Illustrated by a Billionaire in a Rubber Suit" rollforinsight.net/blog/authent...rollforinsight.netAuthentic Leadership, as Illustrated by a Billionaire in a Rubber SuitWhat Batman Forever accidentally teaches about authentic leadership, identity crises, and the dangers of branding your trauma in neon. 122
Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 16/10/2025I watched the first episode of Season 8 of Rick and Morty and somehow ended up writing 1,700 words about leadership. "The Summer of All Fears" turned out to be a goldmine of lessons--from startup cults to bad mentorship. Full post: rollforinsight.net/blog/what-ri...rollforinsight.netWhat Rick and Morty's 'Summer of All Fears' Teaches us About LeadershipRick and Morty’s ‘The Summer of All Fears’ turns leadership lessons into chaos as Summer builds a startup cult and Rick weaponizes mentorship 042