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June 23, 2026
Managing Has Three Modes. Leading Isn't One of Them.
Managing is a role with three modes — Do, Direct, Develop. Leading isn't one of them; it's what the three produce when carried well.
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July 15, 2026
Influence runs on relationship (the move most people skip)
Influence runs on relationship, not tactics. The three H's — head, heart, hands — and the move most people skip: pull their lever, not yours.
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July 6, 2026
Reading a room is a skill, not a gift
We treat reading a room like a personality trait. I spent my doctorate finding out it's a skill — one you can measure, and grow.
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June 29, 2026
When your AI needs to do better
A Claude Code skill that reads your AI session logs and treats your frustration as a signal of workflow friction, then hands you a concrete fix.
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June 1, 2026
The delegation move most people skip
Before you pick a delegation level, ask two questions: what's going on at your altitude, and are you delegating to offload or to develop?
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May 19, 2026
The Term "Leadership Development" is Broken
Why leadership development keeps failing — and what changes when we treat the system around the leader as the design target.
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April 27, 2026
How I finally got my AI to sound like me
Why 'act as a senior consultant' doesn't work, and what corpus-grounding actually requires.
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April 27, 2026
The ICF rolls out MCS and CSS — three implications, depending on where you sit
What the new MCS and CSS specializations actually change — three implications, and a coach's read on the developmental view.
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April 27, 2026
We use em-dashes — Welcome to Bricolas
Why the em-dash got the AI tell association — and what it actually does in editorial writing.