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351. The 5 ChatGPT Prompts That Will Change Your Life
I didn’t realize how little I understood about myself until ChatGPT explained it to me. This is Leadership Therapy, the AI way.
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350. AI Isn't The Problem. Your Decisions Are.
Company leaders are treating AI as the solution, but they haven't even defined the problem. Spoiler Alert: your decisions are the problem.
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349. The Leadership Truth You're Not Ready To Hear
Every person has a limited range of truths they are capable of accepting at any given moment. Maybe it's time to pry open your Overton Window.
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348. The Enshitification of Work
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343. The Only 3 Problems You Actually Have
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347. The Leadership Mistake Almost Every Manager Makes
You don't succeed by pretending everyone's elite - you do it by coaching the right people the right way. That's the Skill Will Matrix.
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345. Better. Cheaper. Faster. Pick Two.
In leadership, as in life, you can't have it all. There are trade-offs for every choice. You want it better, cheaper and faster. You only get two…
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344. How Great Leaders Win By Inches
In leadership, just like in baseball, the difference between winning and losing isn’t the big swings — it’s the tiny, incremental plays in between…
Oct 20
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343. The Only 3 Problems You Actually Have
Regardless of how unique your troubles, they can all be boiled down to 3 problems in your life: your head, your heart and your bank account.
Oct 13
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341. The Importance Of Q-Tips In Your Career
Q-Tips push all the bad stuff deeper inside. All they do is make things worse. As it turns out, the same thing happens at work when you take things…
Sep 29
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351. The 5 ChatGPT Prompts That Will Change Your Life
I didn’t realize how little I understood about myself until ChatGPT explained it to me. This is Leadership Therapy, the AI way.
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349. The Leadership Truth You're Not Ready To Hear
Every person has a limited range of truths they are capable of accepting at any given moment. Maybe it's time to pry open your Overton Window.
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347. The Leadership Mistake Almost Every Manager Makes
You don't succeed by pretending everyone's elite - you do it by coaching the right people the right way. That's the Skill Will Matrix.
Nov 17
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345. Better. Cheaper. Faster. Pick Two.
In leadership, as in life, you can't have it all. There are trade-offs for every choice. You want it better, cheaper and faster. You only get two…
Oct 27
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344. How Great Leaders Win By Inches
In leadership, just like in baseball, the difference between winning and losing isn’t the big swings — it’s the tiny, incremental plays in between…
Oct 20
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351. The 5 ChatGPT Prompts That Will Change Your Life
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348. The Enshitification of Work
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346. The Lunch Break Is Dead
The lunch break was the time of day where we built trust, loyalty and connection at work. When we killed the lunch break we killed connection. What…
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350. AI Isn't The Problem. Your Decisions Are.
Company leaders are treating AI as the solution, but they haven't even defined the problem. Spoiler Alert: your decisions are the problem.
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349. The Leadership Truth You're Not Ready To Hear
Every person has a limited range of truths they are capable of accepting at any given moment. Maybe it's time to pry open your Overton Window.
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348. The Enshitification of Work
While businesses have over-optimized for profit they've sacrificed humanity. Welcome to the age of enshitification.
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346. The Lunch Break Is Dead
The lunch break was the time of day where we built trust, loyalty and connection at work. When we killed the lunch break we killed connection. What…
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337. You Are God. That's The Problem.
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348. The Enshitification of Work
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347. The Leadership Mistake Almost Every Manager Makes
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346. The Lunch Break Is Dead
The lunch break was the time of day where we built trust, loyalty and connection at work. When we killed the lunch break we killed connection. What…
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345. Better. Cheaper. Faster. Pick Two.
In leadership, as in life, you can't have it all. There are trade-offs for every choice. You want it better, cheaper and faster. You only get two…
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Getting things done is your job description. But it isn't a marathon. Success is a sprint. And this is your guide to doing it faster and better.
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Today I saw a one-armed man walking a three-legged dog. My reaction was nothing I'm proud of, but it did teach me a whole lot about courage and pity.
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338. The Illusion of Progress
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RFK, Jr. fired Susan Monarez from the CDC because she said she wasn't trustworthy. In this episode, I explore what it means to fire somebody based on…
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