What if your Sunday Scaries aren’t caused by the 4 meeting you have Monday morning, before you will even get to your email, the 47 Slack messages that are waiting in your inbox, or the PowerPoint you have to finish by the end of the week, and you are still waiting on the “new format”? What if they are the

Leaders are constituted through structural relations and individual choice, but most conversations about management erase the structural half, treating it as pure individual agency based on individual traits. I want to talk about how we really become who we are, and I will use my own path as an example to help think about how we become leaders. We all

It has been nearly 6 months, but the newsletter is back. I am revising the newsletter’s focus a bit to make it more practical and useful for folks, but still keeping the philosophical edge. Please let me know what you think. This will be back to coming out once a week on Fridays. I recently read an essay by a

The recent rounds of layoffs, which have hit middle managers particularly hard, have raised an important question. 1 Do we even need middle managers anymore? On one side, companies have flattened their hierarchies, and the managers they retain are asked to have more direct reports than they previously had. In some ways, this makes sense if you are not planning

I have gotten some feedback that what I have been writing has been too dense and not actionable enough. This week, I am going to try something different. Please share your thoughts by replying to this email. I don’t want to lose the depth of the thinkers I borrow from, but I also want to make sure it is helping