lightbulbs Your favorite leadership lessons from 2025

Expand your leadership skills with these 5 popular articles from this year.

5 rules to a 30 minute meeting

The art of a good meeting is keeping everything on topic, with a productive discussion. It's all about maintaining focus. Here are my 5 rules to running a 30 minute meeting

5 levels of performance

Where does your organization fit on this performance model? Consider that different parts of your organization might be at different levels. Is your unit doing well, and they know it? Or is your unit not doing well, and they are blissfully unaware?

2 warnings about AI in coding

One way that people have put AI to work is in writing code, such as with AI "assistants" like GitHub's Copilot. While AI co-authors can streamline the repetitive aspects of writing code, developers need to keep in mind the limitations of using AI in this way. Consider these risks when using AI for software development.

The rise of the AI interviewer

The most recent example of inserting an AI to replace the "human connection" is AI interviewers. Tell me your company doesn't care about people without saying your company doesn't care about people.

Don't let go of long-term planning

With AI, all that's changed is a specific tool, not the long-term plan or the milestones. AI is a tool, not the end goal by itself. Your strategy should be focused on business outcomes.