Leaders LoopWhy Consumers Are Still Spending Despite Inflation
Professor Barbara Kahn explains what is driving resilient retail spending. … Read More
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The Leadership Reading List
We don't write everything worth reading. This is where we collect the best leadership and business writing from other publications and blogs, so you don't have to go looking for it.
Why a sabbatical can change everything
An exploration of sabbaticals—extended breaks from work—and how they can create meaningful personal and professional transformation, with practical guidance on taking an extended time off.
Creating Shared Prosperity With AI: Stanford Digital Economy Lab’s Erik Brynjolfsson
Erik Brynjolfsson has a challenge for anyone worried about artificial intelligence: Stop asking what AI will do to us, and start asking what we will do with AI. In this episode of Me, Myself, and AI, the Stanford University economist explains why technology isn’t the biggest barrier to progress — people, organizations, and institutions are. […]
The Having/Doing job gap
It’s a dance between workers, bosses and the market. The most stable quadrant happens when a thoughtful and consistent boss hires the right person, pays them fairly, creates positive working conditions and useful training. In return, the company gets extraordinary performance. That’s someone doing a good job who also has a good job. A particularly […]
Apply Lessons from “Moneyball” to Business Recruiting and Find Your Next Tom Brady
ORGANIZATIONS often believe they’re selecting the best candidate when in reality they’re selecting the person who best matches familiar credentials, patterns, or assumptions. That distinction matters. As the 2011 movie Moneyball demonstrated through baseball recruiting how success improves dramatically when talent is evaluated against the factors that actually predict performance — not the ones pe
🎙️ How I AI: How the founder of Morning Brew built a Claude content machine that never runs out of ideas
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How the founder of Morning Brew built a Claude content machine that never runs out of ideas and never sounds like slop | Alex Lieberman
Listen now | 🎙 How Alex Lieberman (Morning Brew) built a Claude workflow that interviews him before drafting, codes his voice in Markdown, and runs a six-persona revision loop before posting
How Leaders Unlock Innovation on the Front Lines
PPaint/Ikon Images Balancing the daily grind of operations with the spark of innovation is one of the most persistent challenges managers face.1 Regulatory compliance, performance metrics, and the never-ending demands of customers can easily crowd out creative thinking. Work overload or mismanaged operations elevate employee stress, which directly constrains ideation capacity. This cognitive bottl
The power of positive argument
Hank Green has an interesting take on the scientific method: We advance because scientists work to persuade others that they’re correct. Every paper, statistical analysis and experiment is nothing but an argument designed to persuade an intelligent critic. The method of argument is determined by the audience–if they require double-blind studies and useful statistical models, […]
Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)
Listen now (72 mins) | Elizabeth Stone, CPTO of Netflix, on managing AI-era product teams, the rise of systems thinking, and how to build excellence as an operating system
Pointless banality and the uncanny valley
The folks at TryAI put Fable to the test in directing a music video. The AI glitches show up from the start and continue. But it’s even more unsettling than this. When AI tries to create and direct joyous human dancing, it fails. The dancers look like retired accountants at a wedding. The stiff awkwardness […]
🧠Community Wisdom: Syncing Claude Code and Claude Design, earning trust when customers assume you vibe coded it, co-founder fallout lessons, personal CRMs, and more
A community-sourced advice column covering practical topics including workflow tips for integrating development and design tools, strategies for building customer trust despite product misperceptions, lessons from co-founder disputes, and personal relationship management systems.
Imminent, urgent, trending and important
The nearest lightning was 1,200 miles away. At least that’s what the weather site reported. When lightning is that unlikely, we don’t worry about it much. It turns out that this is the best time to install a lightning arrestor on your home, though. The urgency of the moment might be the push we need […]
Same as Ever: What Never Changes
SOME things never change. When it comes to human behavior, some things stay the same. And those behaviors can make the future more knowable even as so much is changing all around us. Throughout history, circumstances change, but human nature does not. You may not know specifics of the change, but you can know how people will respond. And that can help to explain how we got where we are. In Same as
Social Security’s Funding Crisis and the Future of Retirement
Wharton professor Kent Smetters explains Social Security’s projected funding shortfall, the risk of benefit cuts, and the policy choices ahead. … Read More
Resources and focus
There are lots of things you can do, but it’s not clear you should. OpenAI has virtually unlimited resources. And in addition to building a chat-based AI, they chose to launch pretty good image generation, a basketball, a meme video generator (since cancelled), an upcoming speaker that actually moves around your house, and a myriad […]
Leading Thoughts for July 16, 2026
IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Eric Ries on the incoherent organization: “An incoherent organization is one where what gets rewarded contradicts what gets proclaimed. Where the values on the wall are betrayed by daily reality. Some such companies claim they value innovation but ostraciz
How AG1 Built Trust Through Podcast Marketing
Paulie Dery, chief marketing officer at AG1, on turning trusted podcast voices into lasting brand growth. … Read More
What CEOs Need to Know About Sovereign AI
Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images As multinational companies implement artificial intelligence workflows and look to adopt AI across their global operations, they are increasingly running up against country-specific regulations and policies that aim to govern AI and align its use with national priorities and local cultural norms. These regulations and policies — which fall […]
Truth Over Feelings: Inside Opendoor’s Turnaround
No company decides to fail. It drifts there one comfortable lie at a time. Kaz Nejatian took over Opendoor when it was just months away from bankruptcy and set out to rebuild it from the ground up. What happened next shocked everyone. Most turnaround stories are told years later, by the winner, after the ending … The post Truth Over Feelings: Inside Opendoor’s Turnaround appeared first on Farnam S