Organizations are excellent at measuring what people produce. These numbers are useful, but they’re also incomplete. What doesn’t show up in the measurement system is harder to name but easy to recognize once you know…
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The Harder You Push
There’s a kind of exhaustion that isn’t about workload. The work gets done, your reviews are fine, and you’re not slacking. But something’s off. Not broken, just slightly wrong: like wearing a shoe on the…
Name Recognition
Name recognition creates a gravity well. The big accounts get amplified, newcomers imitate them hoping to catch some of that gravity, and the whole ecosystem collapses toward a handful of archetypes. The irony is that…
Modern Work, Industrial Logic
We work in digital environments, but our systems still run on factory settings. You’d think today’s work systems were designed for the complexity, creativity, and connectivity of modern life. They’re not. Despite the software, the…
The Missing Infrastructure Between Education and Work
A director at a Fortune 500 company told me something last month that’s been sitting with me: “We hire incredibly talented people from top schools. Three months in, half of them look lost. Not incompetent….
Why Most Career Advice Teaches the Wrong Decision Framework
A former student sent me this email last week: “I followed your advice. I turned down the Big Tech offer. Everyone thought I was crazy. I took the smaller role at a company where I…