What You Don’t Say Is Also a Decision
She knew the hire was failing three weeks early, and said nothing. She was waiting for certainty. On the filter no Chief of Staff is taught to build, and a…
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The Chief of Staff Corner
<p>Role-specific insights for CoS leaders</p>
Workslop Is a Trust Problem
AI workslop has a cost nobody budgets for: the colleague who receives it trusts you less. A three-question check to protect your name at work.
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I Use AI Every Day. Here Is Exactly How.
I use AI every single day. I do not use it to think for me. I use it to clear the clutter so I can think better.
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The Productivity Trap: Why Your Best People Might Be Getting Worse
Someone on my team came to a meeting with a beautiful summary. Bullet points, clear synthesis, the kind of prep that used to take two hours and now takes twenty…
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The Chief of Staff AI Doesn’t Know How to Replace
There is a version of the Chief of Staff job a model could run by Friday. It is not the version you are paid for.
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I Was a Very Good Doer. That Was the Problem.
For most of my career I was a very good doer. Then someone asked me what I recommended, and I hedged.
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You’re Not the Bottleneck. You’re Just Missing This One Role.
Most founders I know are moving fast. The calendar is full, the ambition is real, the effort is obvious to everyone in the room. And yet something, as they tend…
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Influence Without Authority: The CoS Superpower
Chiefs of Staff rarely win by force. You do not own the org chart, you do not sign most decisions, you do not outrank the people you are trying to…
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Chief of Staff Leadership Compass: How to Lead When No One Reports to You
A Chief of Staff’s problem is not that the org chart fails to support you. It is that authority in this role is relational, not positional. The role has no…
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Why Hiring a Chief of Staff Feels More Like a Marriage Than a Job Offer
Recruiting a Chief of Staff is not about filling a role. It is about choosing a thinking partner, a pressure absorber, a trust carrier. Which is why the process feels…
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