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Where you’re headed beats where you started
Why a leader’s trajectory beats the starting label, and how to move people from surviving to building.
Employee Engagement
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Where Execution Breaks
How to tell a buy-in problem from an execution-under-pressure problem, and why leadership teams keep misdiagnosing stalled initiatives.
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What We Lose When the Middle Goes
Why the 2026 middle management cuts at Amazon, Meta, and Citigroup are setting up the next failure cycle
Employee Engagement
What We’re Really Measuring
Why Amazon's AI usage targets are producing the gaming behavior they were meant to prevent
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The Work That Holds Off Complacency
Knowing complacency is a problem doesn’t fix anything.
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The Myth of the Superteam
Most teams won’t become superteams, and that’s fine.
Employee Engagement
Superteams and the Gap Between Framework and Capability
Diving imto Ron Friedman's 'How to Build a Superteam'
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The Hollow Middle
Engagement Starts in the Middle, yet is rarely focused there.
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When the math says cut, the evidence says invest
The financial case for people investment during downturns is settled. The implementation gap isn’t.
Employee Engagement
The Funeral or the Lab
What Bell Labs got right about innovation is exactly what today’s workplaces are dismantling
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The Socialization Deficit
Why Your Networking Infrastructure Is Broken and How to Rebuild It
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The Water Cooler Didn’t Disappear. It Shattered.
Disruptions Compound for Employee Engagement