Managing the Stress Around Artificial Intelligence
Open any business publication right now and chances are one of the first articles you’ll see is about how artificial […]
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Are Your People Comfortable with Intelligent Disobedience
I have a friend named Andre who is vision-impaired. He has a guide dog named Crimson. Crimson is trained to
Are You Practicing Deliberate Calm?
How do you react when the stress hits the fan? It could be something big, like the website going down
Are You Stressing Your Team with Your Off-hand Comments?
Have you ever sat in a meeting where the person in charge made some “funny” comment that others didn’t find
Don’t Make Decisions So Hard!
One of my favorite mental models is Occam’s razor because I spend so much time struggling to follow it. Occam’s
How to Stress an Entire Organization without Really Trying
Case studies are one of the best ways to improve critical and strategic thinking. The best business and engineering schools
Are You Making the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder?
A while back, I mentioned one of the best books I’ve read in 2025, The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders
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Don’t Come to Me with Six Questions!
When I was a graduate student, I worked for Don. Don was a great supervisor. He set clear expectations, took
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Is This Going On in Your Organization?
A young friend of mine works for a national sorority. I’ll call her Kate. One of her responsibilities is to
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Impulse Control: The Smart Decision Maker’s Secret to Overcoming Overwhelm
This past week, Michael Lee Murphy purchased a Subaru in “as is” condition from a dealership in Sandy, UT. The