Figure Out AI: A Chief of Staff’s Real Assignment
Every Chief of Staff has heard some version of it this year: "Figure out AI." But beneath the task of evaluating tools lies a more important question—what parts of your…
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Reflections
<p>Personal insights, short essays, thought leadership musings</p>
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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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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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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Honest notes from the messy middle
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how we curate our lives and our leadership until they’re as polished and clinical as a private hospital lobby. We want to present…
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