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The hiring mistake Spara's CEO says leaders keep making
Spara CEO David Walker says company culture starts with hiring people who lift colleagues up and finding people who will challenge leaders' thinking.
More communities are closing schools. The cuts may not be enough
VALLEJO, Calif. — Minutes before first bell, Penny Núñez-Brandão scanned the crowd outside Glen Cove Elementary School, looking for familiar faces. “I don’t see any,” the fifth grader told her mom one morning this August. “None of my friends are coming.” The start of a new school year can be…
OPINION: Higher education has many important stories to tell. So, let’s hear them
Higher education is at least partly responsible for its slide in public trust and perceived value to society. It needs to act now to restore confidence in its usefulness. The loss of trust is real and across the board. The proportion of Americans who say a college education is “very important” has…
Gen Z pushes back on ‘performative availability’ as only 8% of workers say it won them a promotion
In a survey of 1,006 U.S. workers, 69% said staying reachable after hours hasn’t helped their careers. Gen Z feels the least pressure to try.
This week, AI's power problem stopped being theoretical
The biggest AI story this week was not a model release. It was electricity. In the space of a few days, the Financial Times reported that Anthropic committed about $3.4 billion to secure 1.7 gigawatts of gas-fired generators from a Texas…
The average worker would need to save for 52 years to claw their way out of the middle class and be classified as wealthy, research reveals
Bleak research warns not even a lifetime of savings would be enough to lift workers out of the middle class into the top 10%.
On-call rotation: how to organize it fairly
Organizing an on-call rotation sounds like a spreadsheet and a duty roster. In reality, it is one of the leadership tasks that show most clearly how seriously a team takes the word “fairness”. Word gets around about who gets called at night, who blocks the weekend and who somehow “can’t right now”…
The GOP went all in on Trump. It’s a cautionary tale about leadership
Republicans hitched their wagon to a single leader. And they lost in the midterms. Bigly. In what turned out to be a historic and unprecedented midterm election , Democrats came out with some major victories. States turned blue that have been led by Republicans for decades, like Kansas, South…
Otherwise you’re just a machine
AI is getting better at design. Designers should too. The skills behind the work. Image created with AI. I spend a lot of time looking at design work. Reviewing portfolios. Hiring designers. Working with design leaders, seniors and juniors. Sitting in critiques. Watching people explain how they…
The ‘charismatic’ leader trap: Why organizations shouldn’t depend on one individual, no matter how appealing
When we think of a leader, charisma—an individual’s ability to motivate people to follow them, share their vision, and ultimately do what they say—is often at the center of our image. Charismatic, transformational leaders are respected, admired, and even loved. A successful business, however, is…
How a marketer-turned-CEO helped turn Whisker into a cat-litter empire
Whisker's Jacob Zuppke helped turn a self-cleaning litter box into a booming business with creative marketing.
Presentation: The Socio-Technical Staff+ Engineer: Architecture, Culture and Organisational Change
Vanessa Formicola shares how technical leaders can move beyond "wishful architecture" by practicing holistic socio-technical engineering. She discusses why engineering leaders must account for organizational maturity, reward structures, geopolitical climate, and team dynamics, framing the…
American Housing Corp names leadership for new Austin division
American Housing Corporation's Austin homebuilding division will focus on factory-built, infill urban rowhomes
In a world of panic, calm and certainty win
You can dread the future or help build it. The people who come through this already chose. While panic around what AI means for our industry is the reflex right now, calm is a decision. The calm that comes from knowing what you actually know is the rarest and most valuable thing you can bring to a…
LGI Homes Q3 2026 earnings reveal leadership test in downturn
SG&A ratio improved 180 bps year over year, while backlog fell 47.5% and guidance narrowed to 4,600 to 4,800 closings
When Cultures Collide in Crisis
Sergio Ingravalle/Ikon Images High-stakes disruptions test businesses’ cultural agility as well as their operational resilience. As supply chains stretch across continents and leadership teams span time zones, cultural agility becomes a business essential. Many crises now unfold across cultures as…
Presentation: Beyond the Harness: Canvas for AI Agents
Nimisha Asthagiri shares how applying proven product engineering and architecture principles creates a bounded canvas for AI agents. She explains how this model provides agents with bounded autonomy, continuous drift detection, and decision records to scale software development resiliently. By…
NASA Names Troy Asher Armstrong Flight Research Center Director
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has named Troy Asher director of the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Asher, a veteran test pilot and aerospace engineer with decades of experience in flight research and operations, has served as the center’s acting director since…
NASA Names Troy Asher Armstrong Flight Research Center Director
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has named Troy Asher director of the agency’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Asher, a veteran test pilot and aerospace engineer with decades of experience in flight research and operations, has served as the center’s acting director since…
How to run an indie game studio: Part 5, Better meetings
If you've made it this far in the series, you now have the building blocks of a functioning studio operating system: a clear purpose , long and short-term goals , a system for catching and solving issues , and a quarterly rhythm that keeps your team focused and accountable . This week, we're…
