More difficult. Messier. Slower. These are not selling points.

As a manager, it’s hard to look at these two columns and not ask yourself where your people would place you.

This is the trick when your job is thinking big thoughts.

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.

This is a “what matters is what matters” newsletter.

What if you just abandon the front door entirely and find another way?

Here are three, quick ways to spot AI bullshit in the wild.

This is a five-alarm fire in terms of human connection.

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.

How do you check power that’s not-presently-checked?

We need to acknowledge that the fake-it-and-hope-no-one-notices approach to management is having a real moment right now.

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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