Month: July 2025

Ten great free lessons from top instructors on Maven on how to improve your leadership. And I’m not just saying that because one of the featured lessons is mine 😉

Why is it that people who use LLMs extensively rave enthusiastically about their conversations? LLMs are patient listeners who start any response with positive encouraging feedback, and then build on whatever you said. They are basically playing the “Yes, and…” improv game constantly, which provides constant validation for the user. The downside of this is…

Leadership is the skill of getting others to follow you. People think that becoming a leader means waiting for somebody else to make you a manager or declare you a leader. They think that people will listen to them if they work their way up the promotion ladder. But a manager that has no way…

I dropped the Kindle price of my book to $2.99 for Amazon Prime Days this week. I wrote the book to share what I learned in my own journey after burning out while chasing a promotion at Google. After several years of coaching leaders to have more impact, I realized that I was repeating the…

What will the role of humans be in a world of AI? This is a question on many people’s minds as AI is upending everything we know about our jobs, our work and how companies operate. It’s a particularly thorny question for leaders as they make plans for their teams and organizations despite the rapid…