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Ash Ripley

@ashripley.bsky.social
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Writer. Creator of Roll for Insight. Hunting leadership theory for sport. linktr.ee/totallyashripley

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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Just 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.
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Servant 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 #RollForInsight
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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.
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Turns out you can’t motivate humans with Skittles alone. Learning this in real time.
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
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
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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.
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
If there's anyone I know who could accidentally start a cult, it's you. Charismatic, mysterious, creature of the darkness. You ARE the mushroom.
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Nothing teaches you transformational leadership faster than watching five adults pledge loyalty to a sentient nightlight. rollforinsight.net/blog/why-my-...
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Why 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.
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
6. 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
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
1. 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
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
To be clear, it's just my night person that doesn't want to be a cat with you.
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Oh man, I wish I'd seen this earlier today. Would've saved everyone a LOT of trouble.
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
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.” rollforinsight.net/blog/turns-o... #Leadership #Burnout #RollForInsight
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Turns Out You Can't Intimidate Burnout
You can’t outwork burnout. You have to change how you fight.
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
You don't get it. He's sad AND he likes beer
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Playing Stardew with my wife @therapistapproved.bsky.social right now. I'm gonna marry Shane. I can fix him.
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I 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.
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Writing about burnout with Maslach and Leiter, but my brain keeps changing it to ‘Malsach.’ Classic Depersonalization, am I right?
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
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 blog.bioware.com/2025/11/07/n...
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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…
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Seriously. I feel like this should be standardized.
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
I 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."
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Some days it feels like we’ve just been chasing those buckets of syrup off into the sunset.
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
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. rollforinsight.net/blog/how-to-... #RollForInsight #TabletopWisdom
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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.
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Boss dressed as Gru and everyone else came as minions today, which feels less like a costume and more like a confession.
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Been 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.
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Oh man, I miss when “leading man energy” meant owning two shirts and paying rent on time.
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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... #Leadership #RollForInsight
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Oof. We're only a few rewrites away from Pennywise joining the Avengers, aren't we?
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Good to know my exhaustion is statistically significant.
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I’m not saying this is late-stage capitalism’s fault, but I’m also not not seeing a pattern here
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I 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...
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Authentic Leadership, as Illustrated by a Billionaire in a Rubber Suit
What Batman Forever accidentally teaches about authentic leadership, identity crises, and the dangers of branding your trauma in neon.
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I 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...
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What Rick and Morty's 'Summer of All Fears' Teaches us About Leadership
Rick and Morty’s ‘The Summer of All Fears’ turns leadership lessons into chaos as Summer builds a startup cult and Rick weaponizes mentorship
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Ash Ripley @ashripley.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Look at that beautiful couple. Love you, baby! 😘
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