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Most teams spend more time in meetings than they realize — and even more time recovering from the unproductive ones. Before you fix your meeting culture, it helps to see what’s actually going wrong. And let’s be honest: every workplace has its own collection of meeting disasters.

Few leadership moments test your integrity like a layoff. There’s no easy way to tell someone their role is being eliminated. Even when it’s necessary — a restructuring, a funding slowdown, a market shift — it leaves a mark on everyone involved. And while companies often focus on legal compliance, messaging, and PR risk, what really defines a leader in these moments is how they show up. Layoffs aren’t just about who leaves. They’re about who stays.

My daughter had a school holiday last week so we decided to go visit our friends in Belgium and Luxembourg, experience new cities we had...