Leadership

Watch what happens in most meetings. Someone brings a problem. The boss solves it. Everyone nods. Meeting ends. Problem → Answer

Every manager knows how to brief a contractor. Goal. Resources. Timeline. Success criteria. Check-ins. That's prompt engineering. We&

Ever notice how we explain everything before asking for what we want? Amazon figured this out in 2004. They banned

Netflix asks managers one question: "Would you fight to keep this person?" If no, they're gone.

Andy Grove ran Intel. He had one rule: "Disagree and commit." Say your piece. Make your case. Then

Valve says they have no managers. Also, Gabe Newell runs Valve. They have "cabals" instead—groups that form

"But shouldn't it be 50/50?" No. Ray Dalio built Bridgewater on total honesty. Anyone can

We all try to change our managers. We think we can break them in like new shoes. Here's

You can't measure psychological safety directly. Ask "How safe do you feel?" and you've

Toyota discovered something that sounds impossible: Teams spending 10% of time improving HOW they work consistently outperform teams spending 100%