Category: Other
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Everyone You Need Works for Someone Else
For most of my career, I couldn’t deliver what I was responsible for on my own. The target was mine and the deadline was mine, but the work was parcelled out across specialists who each held a piece of it, none of whom worked for me, all of whom had their own targets and their…
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What Your Managers Need Before You Spend on AI
The most consistent thing I’m hearing from leaders about AI is concern. They’re unsure how to use it, what it’ll cost, or where to start. But mostly they’re worried their peers in other organizations have already figured it out and they haven’t. The pressure is real, and most of the advice on offer makes it…
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Why Your Team Is Going Through the Motions
I’ve been hearing the same thing from leaders for weeks. Different industries, different roles, but the same pattern. The work still gets done. But fewer ideas get offered. Fewer people push back. The room goes flat when the new direction lands. It looks like apathy but it isn’t. It’s a calculation. Capable people have noticed…
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Why Hasn’t the Distraction Problem Been Solved?
Distraction at work has become one of the central productivity problems of the last decade. Personal devices have become harder to put down by design. The tools we use to do our jobs have multiplied. The pace of communication has accelerated. And the gap between what people want to do in a day and what…
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When Feedback Waits
When feedback waits, it changes shape. Leaders delay feedback for sensible reasons. Sometimes the issue looks like a one-off. A deadline slips. The work isn’t up to the usual standard. You wait to see if it happens again. Other times, it’s not the work. It’s the way someone behaves while doing it. The tone. The…
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THE GO-TO PERSON TAX
There’s a pattern I see most often in technical and specialist teams, where individuals have distinct skills, such as lawyers, engineers, policy advisors, and security experts. They hold knowledge that isn’t easily replaced. Sometimes the go-to person is also the keeper of internal history: where things live, what was decided, and what happened last time.…
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Keep Me in the Loop is not neutral
There is a sentence many leaders use because it sounds responsible. “Just keep me in the loop.” It sounds like support. It sounds like good leadership. It sounds like trust. It is also one of the fastest ways to turn Microsoft Teams into a running commentary on work. Most leaders do not say it because…
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Why Prioritization Feels Harder Than It Should
Why Prioritization Feels Harder Than It Should and What Leaders Are Actually Up Against. January has a way of setting expectations. Clear goals. Fresh starts. A sense that this is the moment to get focused and decide what really matters. And yet, for many leaders, prioritization feels harder than it should. It does not feel…
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How Leaders Can Create Space to Think
The final stretch of the year often brings a familiar tension. Teams are busy, but not always focused. Priorities feel heavier. Energy is thinner. The pace increases at the exact moment when people’s attention is most fragile. For managers and L&D leaders, this creates a clear challenge: A year-end attention reset is not about squeezing…
