When I was in high school, a teacher I deeply respected sat me down and told me I was like a duck. Not sure where he was going with it at first, I twitched uncomfortably but kept listening. A duck, he explained, can walk, swim, and fly. It doesn't out-swim a shark, out-run a cheetah, or out-fly an eagle, but it does all three competently. It survives, adapts, and gets wherever it needs to go because it isn't trapped in a single element. It was a complement. For a long time,

Last week, Meta notified roughly 8,000 employees that they were being laid off — about 10% of its entire workforce. The stated reason: funding its AI push. At the same time, around 7,000 more employees were being redirected into newly created AI-focused teams. And quietly buried in the internal memo from Meta's Chief People Officer was a line that should have gotten far more attention than it did: the company is restructuring around "AI-native design principles," flattening m

A few months ago I was sitting in a coaching session with a Director at a mid-size tech company — let's call her Layla. Layla is sharp, experienced, and genuinely good at her job. She'd been managing people for nearly a decade. Her team trusted her. Her stakeholders respected her. Her performance reviews were consistently excellent. And then her company rolled out an AI-integrated workflow across the entire organization. Within six weeks, Layla came to a session and said some

A few months ago, a founder I coach said something I hear almost every week: "I feel like I'm juggling twenty balls, and none of them can drop." She runs a fast-growing startup. Her calendar is a wall of back-to-back meetings. She's managing a team, closing deals, mentoring, hiring, fundraising, fixing ops issues. If this sounds familiar to you, you are not alone. Whether you're a founder, an executive, or a people manager, the reality is the same: You're constantly pul

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"You’re better than ChatGPT," she said. "And ChatGPT is pretty good." Last week, during a mock interview session, a coachee threw this...