When teams are overloaded, managers often become the bottleneck by absorbing work or pushing staff harder. This episode summarizes Melody Wilding’s Harvard Business Review advice and tells the story…
In this episode Greg Gillum introduces Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team using a business fable about a tech company whose talented leaders can’t work together. The core idea: teamwork is…
This episode challenges the idea that eagerness equals readiness and argues that hesitation can be a sign of maturity, not a red flag. It explains why people hesitate, how to diagnose the reasons, and…
Host Greg Gillum explores Michelle Geelan’s new book Resilient Optimism and explains how optimism is a behavior, not a feeling. The episode breaks down five practical manager moves—recalibrate…
This episode explains how to handle a team member who underperforms but is protected by relationships, legacy, or embedded knowledge — creating an accountability gap where you own outcomes but not the…
Somewhere on your team, someone may be using AI to surface concerns they don't feel safe raising directly — a phenomenon called "safety by proxy." This episode explains how that behavior is a signal…
This episode explains how managers should use progressive discipline as a tool for correction, not just a checklist toward firing. It walks through the four steps—verbal coaching, written warning,…
New research tracking 200 employees at a tech company shows AI often increases workload rather than freeing time. Workers moved faster and took on more tasks, leading to longer hours, blurred…
This episode summarizes Harvard Business Review research identifying three behaviors that make leaders inspirational: the Visionary (connect work to a meaningful future), the Exemplar (model calm,…
This episode explains why charismatic candidates can still become toxic leaders and shares a practical six-step hiring process to expose unsafe leadership before you hire. Learn how to define…
