Leadership thinker decoding power, pressure, and the human edge of leadership.
Apr 15, 2026
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18 min read
By Sriram Sadras - Happiness isn't a grand shift that happens overnight. It's a state you achieve after making small adjustments and creating new habits over time.
13 min read
By Daniel Coyle - Culture is not something you are. It is something you do. The most successful groups in the world are not the ones with the most talent. They are the ones who have learned to send the right signals.
By Kim Scott - Caring personally and challenging directly are not in tension. They are the two dimensions that, together, make it possible to say the hard thing in a way that is genuinely heard.
7 min read
By Amy Edmondson - Failure is not the opposite of success. It is part of the path to it. The question is never whether you will fail. It is whether you will fail well.
Apr 8, 2026
14 min read
The behaviours that erode trust are not dramatic. They are daily and almost always unintentional.
Apr 7, 2026
16 min read
By Sheriff Thaver - Building a great business is not an act of chance. It is an act of design, discipline, and the daily decision to keep going.
15 min read
By Lolly Daskal - The most successful leaders are those who understand that their greatest strength, taken too far, becomes their greatest weakness.
By Brené Brown - You can't get to courage without rumbling with vulnerability. Courage and fear are not opposites. Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway, with your whole heart.
Apr 1, 2026
12 min read
Most leaders are not distrusted. They are simply not trusted enough - and they are the last to know.
Mar 31, 2026
By Stephen M.R. Covey - Trust is the one thing that changes everything. When trust is high, the dividend you receive is like a performance multiplier. When trust is low, the tax you pay is also a multiplier - and it is always a cost.
By Amy C. Edmondson - Psychological safety is not about being nice. It is about giving candour the conditions it needs to exist.
By David Horsager - Trust is not a soft skill. It is the hard-edged, economic, and strategic foundation upon which every great leader and organisation is built.
Mar 25, 2026
9 min read
Artificial intelligence is quietly returning leadership to its most fundamental responsibility: exercising judgment when data alone cannot determine the right course of action.
By Rasmus Hougaard and Jacqueline Carter - If AI handles more of the analytical work, what exactly are we asking leaders to do? This book is the answer to that question.
5 min read
By Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani - Rather than treating AI as a tool that enhances existing operations, the authors argue that AI fundamentally changes how companies are structured, how decisions are made, and how value is created.
Mar 18, 2026
10 min read
The data is thorough. The model is well-trained. The forecast is specific. And yet something in the best leaders resists complete deference. Call it instinct. Call it experience. Call it the weight of responsibility.
Mar 17, 2026
By Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb - The book argues that the most important effect of artificial intelligence is economic rather than technological.
6 min read
By Paul R. Daugherty and H. James Wilson - Drawing on extensive research conducted through global organizations, the book argues that the most transformative impact of AI does not lie in automation alone but in the creation of new forms of human–machine collaboration.
Mar 11, 2026
Leadership response time is shortening. Emotional reactivity is becoming more visible. In accelerated systems, steadiness differentiates.
Mar 10, 2026
By Ethan Kross - This book examines one of the most underappreciated forces shaping leadership behavior: the voice inside our head.
8 min read
By Susan David - Hybrid Lens: Emotional Regulation in Accelerated, AI-Visible Work Environments. This book reframes emotional regulation not as suppression but as flexibility. Emotional agility is the capacity to experience thoughts and feelings without being dominated by them.
Mar 3, 2026
4 min read
By Jean Twenge - Focused Lens: Millennials and Gen Z in AI-Led Workplaces. The book synthesizes decades of longitudinal research to explain how historical conditions shape psychological tendencies across cohorts.
By Ethan Mollick - Focused Lens: Practical Human–AI Collaboration at the Workflow Level. The book is a practical, field-level exploration of what happens when generative AI becomes embedded in everyday managerial work.
Feb 24, 2026
By Annie Murphy Paul - The book's central wager is that modern work has trapped thinking inside the head, then blamed individuals for the predictable consequences: overload, narrow perception, weaker judgment, and fragile recovery.
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By Oliver Burkeman - The book is an argument that time management, as practiced in modern work, often deepens anxiety and narrows life.
