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The articles here grow out of conversations with clients.
No names. No details. Just the real issues leaders wrestle with, shared in case they’re useful to someone else in the thick of it.
Relief is not evaluation. Two co-founders I work with hired a general manager who felt like the answer to everything. They’d been …
A CEO client asked me recently whether AI was making her dumb. She said it plainly, the way you’d report a symptom. …
The emptiness that shows up after a big exit doesn’t always wait for the exit. Sometimes it arrives while someone is still …
You didn’t outsource the decision. You outsourced the discomfort of making it. You hired the consultant. Brought in the advisor. Added the …
A client of mine runs an ad agency, built almost entirely on his own name. Three days out from the biggest campaign …
A founder I work with described a moment from a board meeting last month. She knew going in that a number was …
A VP I work with has gotten genuinely good at this. Not good in the way people mean when they say “she’s …
You feel it the moment the deal closes, or the product ships, or the metric finally moves the way you’ve been promising …
A senior design leader I work with told me his team has been talking about holding a roast for their AI. More …
You’re sitting in a team meeting. Someone shares something they figured out with AI. A new way to cut the research time …
A sales coordinator at a mid-sized service business spent forty five minutes every morning on a process that kept five teams moving. …