Johns Hopkins study reveals AI chatbots respond differently based on gender-coded language prompts, impacting workplace communication.

In this post, I’m going to share ten career traps thoughtful people often find themselves ensnared in.

Companies today often use AI to pursue low-value opportunities: adding a new feature that doesn’t truly matter to the customer or giving employees tools that save them time but don’t capture measurabl...

What figure painting taught me about updating my mind at work.

Companies often make consequential bets on talent based largely on instinct. Research on more than 4,200 musicians suggests a more systematic approach. Managers should assess three forms of capital: c...

Here is something that does not get said enough: the people who feel things most deeply are usually the first ones broken by a toxic environment. Not the most brittle.

Nicholas de Monchaux led MIT's Department of Architecture through pandemic disruption, establishing impact-driven research, advancing circularity in building design, strengthening department infr...

A year as Chief of Staff, and why I’m going back to design leadership

Finding space to breathe again. I return to my desk, newly assembled after making the almost 3,000 mile journey across the Pacific Ocean from Washington State to Hawaii. The space is new but the tools are so familiar. I look around and it feels like seeing good friends after a long hiatus. There’s something different though in this new space and it has nothing to do with the contents of the room.

You want to foster psychological safety in your relationships at work and at home? Work on your listening skills.

New Tedx speaker Jenny Bates Heaton shares how value-based decision-making and employee-led talent systems can reduce systemic workplace bias and boost retention.

Job titles like 'engineer' and 'designer' are melting into something new. Here's how to build your hiring plan around the roles that actually matter.

When leaders block people from achieving their purpose, engagement drops, performance suffers, and they’re far more likely to leave.

Purpose-driven organizations create an implicit promise that employees will be able to make a meaningful difference, but when rules, metrics, and processes prevent them from doing so, that promise is ...

Humility may be one of the most misunderstood dimensions of character. This article describes what it is, why it matters and how to develop it.

Leaders undervalue ‘soft skills’ at their own peril.

We’ve reached a strange moment in tech where generating an interface in 12 seconds has convinced an entire industry that design was never more than arranging rectangles on a screen. Prompt in.

What the science says about why feeling like you fit in

“Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself… You may give them your love but not your thoughts, for they have their own thoughts. …

Organizations often assume leadership succeeds or fails because of a leader’s style. But research on follower psychology suggests the bigger issue is alignment: Employees judge leaders based on whethe...

Stockholm-based vibe-coding platform Lovable is offering employees an automatic 10% raise as a way to sidestep classic corporate politics.

A framework for getting humans, agents, and everything in between to build the same vision

Vibe coding is collapsing the distance between idea and deployment. But the real risk is whether your company has the judgment system to govern what AI can now build.

Maybe you're not hard to manage. Maybe you're just not meant to be managed.

TED Talk by Tristan Harris