How AI Is Making Great Managers Into Lazy Ones (With Disastrous Results)
What if friction is a feature, not a bug?
5 Leadership Lessons I Learned Managing High Performers
The surprising realities of leading smart, ambitious people
Why Most Leaders Are Either Too Hands-On or Too Hands-Off (The Goldilocks Principle)
How to calibrate your leadership style to every person on your team
The Leaders’ Room: Boston Scientific’s Sean Gayer on a meaningful mission
In this final episode of season four, we speak to Sean Gayer, VP of operations for EMEA manufacturing at Boston Scientific, about the future of health and smart manufacturing.
The Best Engineering Managers in the AI Era Will Become Context Architects
Why Senior Developers Benefit More From AI Than Juniors
tey bannerman on why AI strategy is the new essential skill for design leaders
tey bannerman and iF design academy teach design leaders how to navigate the shift from production to strategy in the age of generative AI.
The Most Important Thing Leaders Should Think About in 2026
I’ve been thinking about what the most important thing is for leaders to think about in 2026.
Stop Trying to Be a Fun Manager, It’s Making You Intolerable
Focus instead on being effective and making the work satisfying and rewarding in and of itself
Forget “Manager.” Let’s Talk About 7 Ways to Actually Lead People.
So, you have finally climbed the corporate ladder.
The Roadmap Review That Changed How I Talk to Executives
The Roadmap Review That Changed How I Talk to Executives The room went silent. I’d just finished presenting our latest feature. User research? Solid. Prototypes? Polished. Technical validation? …
Conscious Unbossing: Why No One Wants to Be a Manager Anymore
Are you dodging the management track? Discover the conscious unbossing trend, why Gen Z avoids leadership, and how to thrive as an individual contributor.
Why Smart Leaders Still Make Dumb Decisions (🧠 The Three Brains Framework)
What’s really happening in your mind when you react, overthink, or freeze
Interview with Amy Huang, Leadership in Design
Amy Huang has a fintech and healthcare background including creative direction at Citibank and consulting for BCBSRI.
Why Should Designers Become Leaders?
To make an impact, you must move up the organizational hierarchy and secure a
Major gap between leaders' traits and employee expectations, finds report
Hogan Assessments has published data showing a major gap between what gets a manager promoted and related employee expectations.
Designing adaptive teams
A systemic analysis of Peter Senge’s learning organisation within the modern product and design ecosystem
How design leaders influence decisions without being in the room
How to create annotations that let your design work shine
Warren Buffett’s 1-Sentence Leadership Test (That Most Bosses Fail)
Buffett defines leadership in one simple sentence. Discover why "getting things done through others" is the key to scaling your success and sanity.
The Paradox of Competence: Why Your Skills Are Killing Your Leadership
You were the rockstar.
7 Unpopular Questions Every Product Manager Should Be Asking
As a product manager, the quality of your questions will take you further than the confidence of your answers.
What the “Four Types of Designer” Debate Gets Right and Wrong
A friend recently sent me a post from “the bad place” that broke product designers down into four types.
A Simple Way to Advocate for Yourself and Your Team: The STAR 🔶 Technique
Leadership is not just about doing the work. It’s about making sure the work is seen, understood, and valued.
The 6 Human Needs in Leadership: A Better Way to Understand Your Team
A practical framework for decoding motivation, conflict, and engagement at work
The Surprising Reason Talented People Get Overlooked at Work
If you want to get ahead, stop trying to be impressive. Be indispensable instead
7 Reasons Top Performers Quit and What Managers Can Do
Top performers rarely leave just for money. Discover the real reasons high performers quit and what managers can do to retain their best peo
Trained Not to See
There is a particular kind of blindness that does not feel like blindness. It feels like clarity. It feels like confidence. It feels, in…
What’s Your Leadership Default Under Stress?
While stress can signal the need to be more thoughtful, it can also shut down thinking and make leaders behave in unexpected ways
Why “Boring” Leaders Build the Best Teams
The daily leadership habits that create trust, clarity, and a strong culture
9 Daily Habits of Quietly Effective Leaders
The quiet rituals of high-impact leaders
Do You Want To Be a Manager?
Reflect on these 5 questions and find answers for yourself