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Fouder of Meme Guide To Management Head of Strategy, Analytics and M&A at Monitor Deloitte
Nov 2, 2026
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3 min read
The best managers of the AI age will be the ones who can sit in a room with another human being and stay human for the whole meeting
Feedback
Oct 30, 2026
2 min read
One jet-lagged sentence at a press conference in India deleted the performance review for Adobe. By accident.
Oct 28, 2026
1 min read
What happens if you force colleagues to become enemies every six months — by policy? Ask Microsoft.
Oct 23, 2026
Feedback. DON'T #4
Oct 21, 2026
Feedback. DON'T #3
Oct 14, 2026
You Are Rating the Last Two Weeks. You Think You Are Rating the Last Twelve Months.
Oct 9, 2026
If You Cannot Name the Specific Behaviour, You Do Not Have Feedback. You Have a Complaint.
Oct 7, 2026
Describe the Behaviour. Name the Impact. Skip the Verdict
Monday Letter
Oct 5, 2026
To justify the costs, AI needs to generate as much as the global oil and gas industry. We already heard this story three times
Oct 2, 2026
Ask Yourself the Uncomfortable Question: Is This About Them or About Me?
Sep 30, 2026
Before You Open Your Mouth, Check Where You Are Speaking From
Sep 25, 2026
Most managers are no longer sure what they are doing when they give it
Sep 23, 2026
Nobody will ever connect poor feedback formed in vague sentences and the slowly collapsing morale of employees
Sep 21, 2026
Somewhere out there, a retired English teacher with perfect punctuation is being called a bot by a bot.
Sep 14, 2026
While billionaires collect the dinosaur bones, the engineers in the basement are raising their hands to say we may be building the next predator, and we would rather our bones not end up in museum
Sep 7, 2026
6 min read
The corporate grift culture we built and maintain, in which nothing connects to anything tangible anymore, is to blame for the erosion of trust
Aug 31, 2026
4 min read
Murder, drugs, and carjackings developed over reasonable hours by a company with virtues. Right?
Aug 24, 2026
Focus is now a two-front war: strategic focus is to do fewer bets, and attentional focus is the capacity to actually work on them
Aug 17, 2026
Why and how does it happen, and what do we need to do when we observe it happening around us?
Aug 11, 2026
Three strategies for managers in the age of uncertainty and slop ruling the datasets
Aug 3, 2026
I am not saying the economy is on ketamine, but it's exhibiting the symptoms: dissociation from reality, feelings of floating, and absolute certainty that everything is fine while the body stops responding
Jul 27, 2026
Your company has compounding debt that doesn't appear in the dashboard until the quarter it detonates. How to avoid the collapse?
Jul 20, 2026
A new culture is quietly chipping away at the true competitiveness of major organisations across the world
Jul 13, 2026
Techno-Optimism vs. sustainability, social responsibility, trust and safety, and my personal favourite... "tech ethics"
Jul 6, 2026
We managers were led by our universities and companies to believe that the world of money and power is extremely complicated. It is, in fact, not
