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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Your Leadership Team Has a Calendar. It Doesn’t Have a Cadence.
Sixteen agenda items, eleven of them carry-forwards. A full calendar is not a cadence. How a Chief of Staff tells the difference, audits the rhythm, and rebuilds it before it…
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You Called a Meeting. You Should Have Called a Decision.
An eleven-month meeting nobody could explain. On the difference between holding a meeting and designing one, the three jobs a meeting can do, and the question to ask before the…
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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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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 Day Your Decision System Broke (And Why Nobody Said Anything)
Nobody announced it. But somewhere between fifteen people and a hundred, the way decisions got made stopped working. Three signs your decision system has broken, and how to diagnose it.
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The Context Gap
The founder is sure she told them. She did. And the team is still building in three directions. On the context gap between what a leader says and what an…
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Everyone Nodded. Nobody Agreed.
The meeting ended well, everyone nodded, and three weeks later the same issue was back. On false alignment, and the three questions that surface it before the meeting closes.
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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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