
What does it take to lead with purpose and integrity? I sat down with Brent Pohlman to talk leadership, authenticity, and building real impact. #Leadership #Sales #Integrity https://t.co/SuydxN6PV7
Waiting feels safe. Until it becomes the risk. Great leaders know: pause to think—don’t hesitate too long. Eventually, you run out of runway. #Leadership #VelocityMindset https://t.co/KBBK2Y2nx0
This founder signed 100 paying customers. Her product was a Google Drive folder, Zoom calls, and a Stripe link. Sarah Ahmad 's first startup failed. She built the whole thing. Got into YC. Raised a pre-seed round. But couldn't get...
🛡️ In this era of technological disruption, resilient teams are your most valuable asset. This video shares the key components of truly resilient teams: psychological safety that allows risk-taking without fear; cognitive diversity that brings different thinking styles; adaptable structures...

The AI Micromanager Trap I see this pattern a lot when companies adopt AI. Leaders think they’re driving the transformation. But often, they’re just slowing it down. 🚲 They believe they’re steering the team toward progress. ⚙️ In reality, they’re reviewing every prompt, editing every...
If you care about your company, if you care about the time you spent there, if you care about other stakeholders and shareholders- u do not resign with immediate effect in the middle of a week.
Hire high agency people and then stay out of their way. Too many companies put up too many speed bumps that just slow down the people who bring in the money.
Meta is laying off 20%. Block is laying off 40%. Both blame AI. Here's what actually happened: Leadership moved too slow. And employees waited too long. If you're a leader: The companies cutting teams right now had the same warning...
Philips could have done this and become Europe's biggest company and a leader in semiconductors and GPUs now That is if it wasn't ran by midwit MBA scavengers like Cor Boonstra (1996-2001) who only cared about short term profits He divested ASML...
Bringing in partners may disappoint employees who want to take charge of the full development process. Some may even become detractors. #CIO #Leadership https://t.co/IkMrUQXpxe
When you're running a real estate fund, there's lots of balls in the air, the stakes are high, and you deal with a healthy level of pressure and stress. Something I came up with to help balance things: I ask my team...
Unpopular opinion: Zuck demonstrates superhuman levels of guts in his willingness to bet the company on entirely new directions, even though (especially since) this bet failed.
Building a business that runs without you requires an obsession to letting go. scaling it requires restraint. Start small: Stop solving and start coaching. Document decisions and set standards. Your job shifts from doing --> designing.

Employee engagement 101: Rethinking EX in the age of declining trust https://t.co/xdbYxFC31N @CX_Network #EmployeeEngagement & #trust have stagnated, even declined. This 3-pillar framework helps reorg operations, shift from profit-first #culture to experience-first & drive profit https://t.co/BXgJE2sLyg

"Subjects under the influence of power, he found in studies spanning two decades, acted as if they had suffered a traumatic brain injury - becoming more impulsive, less risk-aware, and crucially, less adept at seeing things from other people's point...
Feedback from one of my coaching clients: “No, seriously. You do get it.” One of the best pieces of feedback I never get tired of hearing. It’s hard to work with a coach, especially at the leadership level, if you don’t...

NEW: How do you grow a #training #business in a regulated industry? (Hint: It's not easy.) Learn how one CEO navigates complexity + change in the #foodservice world, as I talk with Andrew Tyndall of @ResponsiblTrain, on the Talented Learning Show▶️https://t.co/W1XrgoamHc #lms...
The best salesperson I ever hired never got promoted, and it’s because he was too good at his job. But leadership didn’t want to lose him where he was. Skills get you noticed, but strategy gets you out of the role you’re...
“Davie, something feels off but I don’t know what to do about it or where it is coming from…” I get told this all the time by founders who can’t pinpoint a specific issue in their business but they still feel...

Are 1x1 meetings still relevant? Yes. 1 on 1 meetings are one of the most important tools you have as a manager. But most people get them dead wrong. Wasting so much time and money... With a calendar full of useless...
Disney's Josh D'Amaro era begins following Bob Iger handoff. D'Amaro stresses to investors that, unlike some media co. rivals, Disney is "operating from a place of strength." w/ @smasunaga @latimes https://t.co/32Tp2humwh
What happens to middle management when AI flattens your organization? https://t.co/mDJARBQNMZ #AI #management #business #technology #leadership
You are a manager now. You cannot fix someone who does not want to be fixed. Know when to cut your losses. THE HARSH REALITY:
“Who knows what will happen in the future. I stay here in the now.” A surprising number of startup founders not only don’t have a clear idea of what success looks like - they actively resist thinking about it. Bias to...
This is the biggest practical problem with overuse of AI in product work right now. Highly competent founders and executives are seeing this happen on a ~daily basis, with team members who used AI to draft a proposal (fine) but...

Apple didn’t start in a garage—and that’s just the beginning. @poguester joins me to unpack the real stories behind Apple: The First 50 Years—from Ron Wayne’s $800 exit to Steve Jobs’s complicated genius. We talk myths, mission-driven leadership, and why Apple...
🧠 We often think of accomplishing our goals as a matter of willpower. But behavioral science suggests that our environment often plays a bigger role in our success than our resolve. How can a leader engineer their surroundings to make...

No, you can’t hand off AI transformation. It starts from the top. The most cracked out founders I know are sleeping far less (9-figure+). They’re deep in Claude Code and the Claws. All the hackathons, office hours, AI specialists, etc. won’t help if the...

Dubai Airports CEO Paul Griffiths speaking to CNN's Becky Anderson: the key to keeping flights moving at DXB during the recent suspension was the outstanding teamwork from all parties... airport, airlines, ground handlers, emergency services. IMO: it’s easy to criticise when...
Never ask: "What's your decision-making process?" Instead ask: "What steps does your company need to take to make a confident yes or no decision?" Same intent. Completely different depth of response. Then DON'T take their answer at face value.
Nvidia CEO received his best career advice from a gardener on long term thinking and doing https://t.co/9uar3tYXfT
Successful people surround themselves by supportive truth tellers — a masterclass by Jeff Bezos on the importance of seeking the truth https://t.co/fvYXNVvBbz

“Some orgs. are sailing along happily, not realizing that some woes are around the corner—despite warning signs that are clear to people outside. People inside the org. are unable to smell the rotting fish for all sorts of reasons.” 🔎 https://t.co/TR9SgSUXwm #changemanagement https://t.co/rMByOhtuHz
In conversation with @Zoho's co-founder and Chief Scientist Sridhar Vembu. I had the opportunity to sit down with Zoho's Sridhar Vembu. Sridhar co-founded Zoho, is their former CEO and current Chief Scientist. I ask Sridhar about moving from the CEO role to...
As companies scale, they add more metrics. Then metrics for the metrics. Eventually, people forget what matters. Great companies focus on ONE number that aligns everyone. Fewer metrics. More meaning. #Strategy #Leadership #Metrics #BusinessStrategy #growthhacking https://t.co/Nq2uoUOUnl
Will Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro Do What Iger and Chapek Would Not? $DIS We believe there are three bold moves that D’Amaro must make to reinvigorate Disney’s lackluster stock price performance over the past decade… https://t.co/caZGmSaw6j

Strategic Questions Leaders Must Answer About Middle Managers https://t.co/eZsbM2ddLv Reality check: most #managers don’t have a single hour in the week explicitly devoted to #culture. They have meetings, tasks, fire drills. Culture becomes what gets squeezed into the margins. https://t.co/k8nXsQMc24
The biggest risk for banking leaders today is not disruption. It is standing still. In this episode, I discussed why continuous learning is the key to staying relevant in a rapidly changing industry. Watch the full episode: https://t.co/niO7fXOQML https://t.co/ypX1PHvuCB
If a fast decision is wrong, that’s more OK, because you find out fast, and change it fast. Slow decisions, the opposite. If “slow” dramatically decreases risk of it being wrong, make it slow. Else, make it fast. More fast/slow tips: https://t.co/KbLhQOhKZH
How about leading a team…? Forget all that other stuff, or at least set it aside. You can have all of the culinary skill in the world, but if you can’t lead a team, you can’t be a chef.
Top talent follows leaders who can work alongside them as peers. The luck of being in that room is what turns you into elite level
RT If genAI handles the grunt work, how can leaders develop an apprenticeship model? Leaders must: (1) Redesign Level-1 roles, (2) Pair talent with AI agents, (3) Make learning and reflection explicit, not accidental. #AI #Hiring #CIO #CHRO @Star_CIO https://t.co/W7YbwP6jrL
Your most important job as a founder: eliminate mediocrity. And here's my favorite quote on this from Frank Slootman: -- "Mediocrity is the silent killer. Organizations are not getting killed by their C players. Everybody knows who they are, and performance eventually is...
The story has to come from the founder. This frustrates people. Founders want to delegate storytelling the same way they delegate other functions. Hire a head of marketing and let them own it. Bring in a communications expert and hand...
The leaders who stay calm when everything shifts have something in common. They think differently. We built a workshop taught by our Master Trainers to show your whole team how. 90 minutes. Up to 300 people. An Infinite Mindset that...

New innovation: Just as at a well-run startup, there are CEO, engineering manager and design reviews, GStack now helps you keep track of what reviews are run, figures out what is appropriate (e.g. CEO doesn't have to look at infra...
We measure productivity wrong. Lines of code written, tickets closed, hours logged, typing speed. All metrics built for a world where humans do the work themselves. That world is ending. When everyone on your team has an agentic workforce of...
There's a specific kind of exhaustion that comes from being busy on the wrong things. Being stuck in tasks that don't compound is one of the worst things that can happen to a founder/CEO. Before I stepped down as CEO, I tracked...
Most founders would never admit this, but they've had panic attacks or anxiety episodes because they're stuck to the business. How much is the ops chaos costing you?
🚀 You’ve probably heard the term AI-native company, but what does it really mean and why is it becoming so important for business leaders? In this video, I explain the critical difference between AI-enabled companies and AI-native companies, and why...