The Best Leadership Newsletter Ever

354. How Leaders Destroy Their Best Teams

There’s one way leaders quickly destroy their best teams - and it's not how you think.

Jan 12

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353. What I Got Wrong About Leadership

I didn’t learn the leadership lessons I teach because I was always good at them. I learned them because I was a lousy leader for a long time.

Jan 5

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December 2025

310. Here Is The Way You Do Everything

The way you do anything is the way you do everything. So here’s the simple thing I’m asking you to do today: pay attention.

Published on The Best Leadership Newsletter Ever • Dec 29, 2025

352. How The Bonus Saved Christmas

'Twas the day before bonus and all through the Zoom, not a person was smiling... and that was a big big problem

Dec 22, 2025

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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.

Dec 15, 2025

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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.

Dec 8, 2025

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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.

Dec 1, 2025

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November 2025

348. The Enshitification of Work

While businesses have over-optimized for profit they've sacrificed humanity. Welcome to the age of enshitification.

Nov 24, 2025

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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, 2025

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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…

Nov 10, 2025

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October 2025

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, 2025

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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, 2025

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