First draw two circles
July 8, 2026
What’s funny is that there was no need to be this wrong.
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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.
All hat, no cattle
November 26, 2025
If your org is on your seventh layoff or Lord-have-mercy, your 82nd re-org, we suggest that it’s time to take a hard look at your underlying planning issues.
With love in our hearts for your eventual revolution
November 12, 2025
If we want work to be better, we need possibility, not futility.
Don’t let the Doerr hit you on the way out
October 29, 2025
The real test for an org is not whether you ever bet wrong. The question is, when the results start to come in, what do you do now?
You’re probably not that hardcore
October 1, 2025
You can drop a lot of frogs in that pot and very few will feel their feet get warm.
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