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February 28, 2025
Onboarding That Works: The First Two Weeks Decide the Next Two Years
The first two weeks decide whether a new hire stays for years or quietly disengages. Here is the ninety-day arc that turns strangers into owners.
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February 14, 2025
The Capacity Plan: Why Teams Overcommit and How to Stop
Capacity is not a feeling, it is a number. Here is the arithmetic of what your team can actually deliver, and how to stop promising more.
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February 2, 2025
AI for Busy Managers: Where It Actually Saves You Time
AI won't fix bad management — but used properly, it quietly takes the repetitive 20% off your desk. Five places it genuinely saves time, and where it's still mostly noise.
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January 31, 2025
Managing Your Boss: Upward Management Without Sycophancy
Your boss is not an obstacle, they are a person with a job and pressures you cannot see. Upward management is the work of making the relationship a partnership.
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January 17, 2025
Hiring for the Long Run: What to Look for Beyond the Resume
The resume tells you what someone has done, not what they will do next. Here is how to hire for the next five years, not the last job.
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January 3, 2025
The One-Page Memo: How Clear Writing Fixes Fuzzy Thinking
Writing is not reporting, it is thinking. The one-page memo is the fastest way to find the holes in your own idea before the meeting does.
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December 26, 2024
The Soft Landing: How 2024 Beat the Recession
There is an outcome that almost no one predicted, and the outcome is the soft landing: the economy that cooled without crashing.
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December 13, 2024
Seeing Is No Longer Believing: Deepfakes and the New Trust
There is a video that looks real and is not, and the video is the 2024 test. The year of the deepfake is the year that seeing stopped being believing, and the trust problem is the subject of this article.
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November 13, 2024
Managing the Machine: Leadership When AI Joins the Team
There is a new member in the team, and the new member is not a person. The shift is the 2024 leadership story, and the story is the new management question: how do you lead the team that includes the machine?
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November 6, 2024
The Robotaxi Revolution: When the Driver Left the Car
There is a ride that is arriving without the driver, and the ride is the robotaxi: the autonomous taxi that is becoming the daily transportation for the thousands.
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