Don’t want no fluff
October 14, 2026
I don’t know how to assess or integrate this stuff with the rest of my work
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Hoodies up, ball caps low
September 16, 2026
What could be more embarrassing than carving out time to show up better for your team?
You can be wrong, even on your birthday
September 2, 2026
These are magic beans, not thought leadership.
Never mind I’ll find someone like you
July 22, 2026
Luck is a very small part of the very big story of how you build great teams.
First draw two circles
July 8, 2026
What’s funny is that there was no need to be this wrong.
The next step
June 24, 2026
Most bosses develop an intuition for when something’s brewing.
Have you ever had a bad boss?
May 27, 2026
As a manager, it’s hard to look at these two columns and not ask yourself where your people would place you.
The people who care are having the hardest time
April 29, 2026
That this passes for visionary leadership and is rewarded by the market is the surest sign we’re into some totally upside-down-face corporate groupthink.
We are all rusty
March 4, 2026
This is a five-alarm fire in terms of human connection.
Get down off the table, my guy
February 18, 2026
Is this just another hype cycle you can ignore until it dies off? Maybe. But our sense is that this one’s gonna be different.
You are not entirely powerless
February 4, 2026
How do you check power that’s not-presently-checked?
Somebody has to do it
January 7, 2026
We hear this from individual contributors, and we hear it from team leads and line managers, and we hear it from Directors and VPs, too.
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