Master Decision Dysfunction to Earn Enterprise Sales Premium
The single most underrated enterprise selling skill: Navigating decision dysfunction. Always assume that dysfunction is the status quo. And that it's your job to make it as functional as possible. That's why you get paid the big bucks in enterprise.
Purpose Beyond Self Drives Employee
RT @JoeContrera Having a purpose bigger than you is where it all begins… And in business I believe that the key to motivating employee’s requires these two things: https://t.co/oHCF0vP6Q9 #purpose #leadership #wisdom https://t.co/Rmo4biXkHp
System‑Designing Founders Build Lasting Freedom, Not Busywork
A pattern I’ve noticed: there are founders who push vs founders who design systems. The first group stays busy. the second group builds something that survives them and creates true freedom.
Listen to Clients: They’re Already Asking for Coaching
Your clients often know what you should do next—if you listen. Two conversations in one day told me it was time to offer coaching. What are your clients already asking you for? #FrippWisdom #Coaching #PublicSpeakingTips
Technology Builds Fast; Habit Change Slows Adoption
We saw this firsthand. The tech took days to build. Getting the team to trust it and actually change how they work took longer. That's always the real bottleneck. The habits.
Separate Design Roles: Creativity Needs Humans, Rules Can Be Automated
I was talking with someone recently about making a design hire, and it led somewhere I didn't expect. There are, I think, two quite different things that get grouped together under the label of "design." There's aesthetic, visual, brand design. The stuff...
Row K Faces Cash Crisis, Top Execs Depart
New: Meltdown at the new indie distributor Row K, @elmayimbe has the details. President Megan Colligan and marketing chief Ben Carlson are set to exit after just 7 months. Cash problems; strategic re-set seems underway for Chris Woodward and Raj...
Emotional Fulfillment Beats Pay in Talent Retention
"Emotional needs, such as feeling valued and supported, mattered more than functional needs like pay, benefits, and hours in retaining and supporting talent." https://t.co/xLzSKDM6Fz < we all crave joy and appreciation in our work
Leaving HuffPost to Build Thrive: Leap of Microsteps
How do you know when it's time to take a leap? I did exactly that when I left The Huffington Post (@HuffPost) in 2016 to found @Thrive Global, helping people adopt healthy habits that drive better health outcomes, engagement, and productivity — one...
Power's Pull: Why Leaving the Spotlight Tempts Us
The challenge of remaining away from the spotlight - and the corrresponding temptation to reenter the arena - is discussed with characteristic insight and candor by @JeffreyPfeffer in at least one of his books about power - all are essential...
Judge Decisions Within the Broader Vision, Not Isolated Details
It's important to view individual decisions in the broadest possible context. For example, if the Responsible Party being challenged has a vision, and the decision being disputed involves a small detail of that overall vision, the decision needs to be...
Diverse Teams Boost Decision Quality and ROI
The ROI of #Inclusion: How diverse teams drive better decisions and outcomes @PeopleMatters2 https://t.co/Ky8Un3u0Z9 #HCM #HRM #HumanResources #HRTech #CHRO #FutureofHR
Stop Rehashing Decisions; Preserve Cognitive Bandwidth for Future
The most expensive asset in any organization isn’t talent or technology—it’s cognitive bandwidth. And nothing consumes it faster than the quiet, persistent work of reprocessing yesterday’s decisions. Will Rogers’ insight lands as a warning to leaders: hindsight is a seductive trap....
AI Hype Masks Executive Incompetence, Warns Nvidia Crash
Executives use the promise of an AI revolution to wallpaper over their managerial incompetence. https://www.benzinga.com/markets/equities/26/03/51474651/nvidia-could-crash-over-70-warns-scott-galloway-ai-corporate-ozempic
Deliver Bad News with Clear Headline, Impact, Plan, Timeline
When delivering bad news, lead with a one sentence headline, state who is impacted and for how long, then share the plan and when you'll update them next. #CIO #ChangeManagement https://t.co/a4Q8PTsrKE
AI Amplifies Bikeshedding: Tiny Issues Overwhelming Projects
There was a time when I heard about bikeshedding for the first time. As obvious as the behavior was, I didn't know there was a term for it. So if you don't know, it's time to know, because building with AI...
Monday Dread Costs Companies: Listen, Understand, Transform Culture
The Sunday Scaries Test: Why Your Employees Dread Monday Morning (And What It's Costing You) https://t.co/ev3fVBhSPX We explore blind spots leaders have abt #culture, the three-pillar framework for #employeeunderstanding, and why listening is the foundation of sustainable success https://t.co/KKyJKOKZCr
Leaders Should Solve Today, Not Celebrate Past Glories
Is it a sign of a great leader that they revel in the past rather than solving the real problems of the present? 🤔 Also amusing he has to look back 20 years to find a point where there’s been...
Apple Offers Huge Bonuses to Retain iPhone Designers
NEW: Apple this week gave its iPhone product design engineers out-of-cycle bonuses worth several hundred thousand dollars, looking to counter OpenAI, Hark and others aggressively poaching its engineers to build AI devices. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-26/apple-gives-iphone-designers-rare-bonuses-to-fight-openai-poaching
Triangulate with Trustworthy People to Improve Decision Odds
My point is that you can significantly raise your probabilities of making the right decisions by open-mindedly triangulating with believable people. Even in a terrible situation, you can still raise your probabilities of making the right decisions by open-mindedly triangulating...
Cultural Clash Fuels Innovation, Says Oura CEO
🚨 NEW EPISODE DROP 🚨 CEO of Oura Ring You can't force two cultures into one monoculture 🇫🇮 +🇺🇸 Tom Hale has half his @ouraring team in Finland, half in the US. Two very different worlds. His take: let them stay different. The...
OpenAI’s Promised Rapid Shifts Clash with Economic Weight
"Please expect a very high rate of change from us" Sam Altman told us six months ago. But OpenAI isn't a plucky startup. It's a giant, deeply tied to our current and future economy. Maybe take a breather on the changes...
Ignore Office Politics, and They'll Control You
You are a manager now. If you do not play politics, the politics of the organization will eventually play you. THE HARSH REALITY:
From Near-Shutdown to $40M: Bolt's Rapid AI Pivot
On April 16, I'm sitting down with Eric Simons, co-founder & CEO of @boltdotnet, for an in-depth chat on how @boltdotnew went from near-shutdown to $40M in 5 months. We're gonna go deep on the pivot, the decisions, and how...
AI Is Redefining Hiring: Hire Engineers Already Obsessed
A candidate used AI to ace the coding test. The team couldn't tell the difference. This is the new hiring reality for SaaS founders 👇 On this week's SaasRise Mastermind, we broke down the biggest challenges SaaS CEOs are facing...
Leaders: Choose Action Over Hesitation, Not Endless Waiting
Waiting feels responsible. More data. More analysis. One more week. But sometimes waiting isn’t strategy. It’s hesitation. Question for leaders: Are you more likely to ACT or WAIT? https://t.co/wACIctUbjQ
Silent Teams Signal Leadership Failure and Collapse
I asked a CEO of one of the biggest industrial groups in India which is on the verge of bankruptcy, why this happened? He replied: “Bosses who don’t listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing to say.”...
Use the PDP Test to Boost Team Performance
I call this the “PDP test”. Purpose, direction, and progress. One’smce you answer these for yourself, it’s good practice brings question to your whole team to pinpoint areas in need of improvement. if you want to read my full article on this...
Stretch Opportunities Often Mask Unfair Workload Overload
You're in your weekly 1:1. You're already stretched thin covering for the senior manager who abruptly quit last month. Your director slides their entire remaining project portfolio onto your plate and calls it a "stretch opportunity." Director: "I need you to...
Organizations Bear Responsibility for Hiring Unqualified Leaders
“When managers/executives get the leadership thing terribly wrong, the organization that put them in the role without ensuring their bandwidth and proficiency is as much at fault as the managers themselves—if not more so.” 🔗 https://t.co/gNw3MlEKqF #leadership #management #HR https://t.co/spRiN27VqG
Systems, Persistence, Execution: The Blueprint Behind McDonald’s
Ray Kroc didn’t just build restaurants. He built a system. * Persistence beats talent * Systems scale businesses * Execution wins long term Lessons from McDonald’s growth: https://michaelwmchugh.com/ray-krocs-mcdonalds-success/
Cultivate CEO Empathy by Reframing Their Behavior Narrative
I would also say that as a mid-level leader building understanding and empathy in yourself and your team for the needs and working style of the CEO is important - start by telling yourself a different story about these behaviors.
Own the Job, Earn Double the Tips
The restaurant I worked at had two types of servers: Type 1: Showed up, did the job, went home Type 2: Treated it like they owned the place Type 2 made 2x more in tips... Same restaurant. Same customers. Different energy. Ownership is a mindset...
Slow, Sustainable AI Adoption Beats Speedy Disruption
New CEPR research: moving too fast on AI creates permanent economic damage. Not temporary disruption. Permanent. The companies winning aren't moving the fastest. They're moving at the speed their people can absorb. Budget for the transition, not just the tool.
Set Objective First, Then Tailor Bad
Before you brief the C-suite on bad news, define your objective: inform, ask for help, or seek a decision - then tailor every word to that outcome. #ITSM #ITLeadership https://t.co/a4Q8PTsrKE
Transparency Spectrum: From Secretive CEOs to Open‑Book Cultures
Someone in Hampton (1000+ founders) asked people if they share revenue and P&L with employees. Here's what they said: Founder A (bootstrapped, ~20 employees): "I share nothing. Not even with my COO. I've never been happier running a company." Founder B (also anti-transparency):...
Success Comes From Challenging Ideas, Not People
“Some of the most successful people in the world are able to attack ideas instead of attacking people.” ~@polinapompliano
Success Now Depends on Capability, Not Job Title
Hot take: I think we are moving from a world defined by roles to a world defined by capability. The old labels still exist, but they are getting less useful. Marketer. Developer. Designer. Strategist. What matters more is whether you can think clearly,...
Good Research Drives Long‑term Success, Not Immediate Timing
Nick Sleep on focusing on what you can control "The quality of our research-based decisions overwhelmingly determines whether we will do well in the long run. But it has almost no influence over the timing of these results."
Ballmer Mocked iPhone, History Proved Him Wrong
#ThrowbackThursday. January 9, 2007. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer laughed at, dismissed the first iPhone. He mocked the $500 price tag and lack of a physical keyboard predicting it would not gain significant market share. #Oops https://t.co/oYQCxsqYV0
Stop Watching the Clock, Embody Momentum for Real Impact
"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does." Sam Levenson’s insight is often dismissed as mere motivation, but for operators, it’s a masterclass in momentum. We spend immense cognitive capital building dashboards to watch time pass—obsessing over quarterly horizons and...
Leadership's Delayed, Context‑poor Alerts Are the Biggest Risk
In highly technical organizations, the biggest risk isn't what breaks - it's when leadership hears about it too late or without the right context to act. #CIO https://t.co/a4Q8PTsrKE
AI Evolution: Cognitive Darwinism Reshapes Leadership and Life
"cognitive darwAInism and a futurist coming home." "This year, after seven years away from #SXSW, Brian walks back into Austin with exactly that same sharp surgical anthropologist’s eye, now pointed straight at generative AI, augmented intelligence and what this all does...
Beast Industries Appoints Former Hulu, Riot Exec as Communications Chief
MrBeast’s Beast Industries Hires Hulu and Riot Games Alum Gaude Lydia Paez as Communications Chief https://t.co/MJLvnqJXMw via @variety
Know Who to Avoid: Startup Success Shortcut
Half the battle in a startup is figuring out who not to spend time with.
Earn Respect: Be Clear, Decisive, Humble, Public, Private
If you want people to respect you as a leader: Be clear. Be decisive. Admit what you don’t know. Set direction publicly. Correct privately.
Turn AI Threat Into Career Accelerator with Three Moves
RT Worried AI might put your leadership role on the chopping block? I share 3 moves to turn AI disruption into a career accelerator for you #AI #Career @Star_CIO https://t.co/mIefOcbMM8
Politics, Not Performance, Drives Promotions Under “Culture Fit”
When management promotes based on office politics instead of leadership capability.... They usually justify it as 'rewarding culture fit'... THE REALITY:
Leaders Overlook How Employee Experience Drives Customer Experience
Why Leaders Miss the Link Between Employee Experience and Customer Experience - CX Journey™ https://t.co/13fzqkzjA7 #employeeexperience #customerexperience https://t.co/vcKtgd4B0h
One Harsh Sentence Drove Talent Away From Government Job
One sentence from his boss made him walk away from a prestigious government job. He's been with me for 6 years since. Here's what happened. I found the perfect hire. He was working with me part time as a contractor, and I...