Leadership
37 essays, 2012–2025
Managing people and teams.
- Believe the Checkbook AI companies talk as if engineering is over. Their acquisitions say the opposite.
- The Most Expensive Wall in Software What happens when you stop protecting engineers from customers?
- Mise en Place for AI Teams Small tools, sharp edges, fast teams.
- The Human Side of AI: Giving People Back Their Time
- Don't Wait for January The Myth of the Perfect Starting Line
- Navigating the Upside Down as a Technology Leader Ideas for leading technology organizations with confidence and creativity.
- Call to Adventure My career's next chapter.
- Organizational Kintsugi: Turning Brokenness into Resilience
- Encourage Your Team to Take Time Off this Holiday Season
- Leading Through Crisis
- Nine Lies About Work: Series Overview
- Interview: The One Broken Cog Podcast
- Design Thinking for Non-Designers The designer's toolkit is a general-purpose problem-solving loop - and you don't need a design degree to run it
- PERMA-V: How to Flourish in Work and Life Flourishing isn't a personality trait. It's six things you can practice.
- PERMA-V: Positive Emotions and Savoring the Best Parts of Life You don't need more good moments — you need to get more out of the ones you have
- Take a Break! Your brain says this is the wrong week to step away — it says that every week
- Take a Break! The Trip Report Rest stays invisible until someone puts it on the record, and the leader goes first
- Leading in a Crisis: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
- Focus on Your Circle of Influence
- Humble. Hungry. Smart.
- Human and Golf Course Architecture
- Wooden Blocks
- Leadership Worst Practices
- Eight Steps to Transform Your Organization
- Chess, Not Checkers
- Five Qualities of People-Focused Leaders
- Executive Presence
- The Platinum Rule
- Deadlines
- Grit
- Leader-Leader
- The Trust Equation
- Help Your Team Succeed By Providing Context, Tools, and Opportunities
- Agree Now to Disagree Later
- The First Thing You Should Do After A Missed Deadline
- People
- Work Yourself Out of a Job