Leaders LoopPrivate Credit Risks and the Threat of Market Contagion
Wharton finance professor examines private credit market vulnerabilities, investor redemptions, liquidity risks, and the potential for broader financial instability. … Read More
Reading List
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.
GLM 5.2: why I’m replacing Opus in Claude Code with this new model
Watch now | 🎙️I ran GLM-5.2, the open-weight model from Z.AI, through codebase audits, UI redesigns, and a 45-minute autonomous bug-hunting task in Cursor and Claude Code, and it cost me $3.36
How Forced Labor Scrutiny Shapes Supply Chain Transparency
A study co-authored by Wharton’s Sandra Schafhäutle examines why companies choose to hide their names in public shipping data. … Read More
The Science of Perfect Timing: Using Chronobiology
In this Nano Tool for Leaders, experts from Wharton and Slalom explain how to find the best time for meetings based on your team's biological rhythm. … Read More
The new inner game: Your unfair advantage in the age of AI
A playbook for the biggest upheaval of work we’ll see in our lifetime
Three Approaches to Measuring and Managing AI ROI
Matt Harrison Clough/Ikon Images After several years of AI experiments and pilot initiatives, a crucial question remains open for most companies: How much of a return — and what kinds of returns — are we getting from all of this AI investment? To many executives, AI ROI still often feels more like art than science: […]
🎙️ How I AI: How to write AI agent loops in Claude Code and Codex + How Claude Mythos found a 15-year-old bug in Mozilla Firefox
Your weekly listens from How I AI, part of the Lenny’s Podcast Network
How Claude Mythos found a 15-year-old bug in Mozilla Firefox | Brian Grinstead
Watch now | 🎙️423 security fixes in one month: Brian Grinstead (Mozilla) shows the goal-loop harness behind it, and why the model was only half the story
Resolving Muddled Objectives in Corporate Venture Capital
Carolyn Geason-Beissel/MIT SMR | Getty Images The Research The authors compared the approaches of prominent corporate venture capital (CVC) units, including those owned by Intel, Cisco, General Electric, Siemens, NTT Docomo, Hitachi, Panasonic, and Sompo. They examined 59 of the most active CVCs tracked by research firm CB Insights from 2017 through 2024 and mapped […]
What happens after coding is solved? | Fiona Fung (Manager of the Claude Code and Cowork Teams)
Listen now | Fiona Fung on leading the Claude Code and Cowork teams, and how to maintain culture when roles are blurring and agents are everywhere
🧠 Community Wisdom: Fractional CPO compensation, free e-signature tools, why some users pay but never use your product, sharing Claude Code context across a team, and more
A community advice column from Lenny's Newsletter addressing practical product management and business challenges, including fractional CPO compensation models, free e-signature tools, analysis of inactive paying users, and strategies for sharing development tools across teams.
Designing Joyful Workplaces
IN today’s landscape, complete with change, disruption, ambiguity and uncertainty, it’s more important than ever that leaders are effective, not just efficient. Talent management must shift from being reactive to being strategic, intentional and aligned to outcomes. How do we move from “putting out fires” and reading smoke signals to building the “house”, or environment, to better account for pote
Executive Blind Spots: The Hidden Risk Undermining High-Performing Leaders
RESEARCH shows that nearly 95% of employees do not fully understand their organization’s strategy, and even more concerning, many leaders overestimate how clearly they are communicating it. This disconnect is not just an operational issue—it is a leadership risk, often driven by blind spots at the executive level. High-performing leaders are often celebrated for their decisiveness, resilience, and
Leading Thoughts for June 18, 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. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on success: “‘People with very high expectations have very low resilience. Unfortunately, resilience matters in success,’ he later said. ‘Greatness is not intelligence. Greatness comes from character.’ And character, in his view, ca
Leaders at All Levels: How DBS Bank Makes Everyone an Innovator
DBS Bank believes that innovation is critical to its survival, and to reinforce that objective, it made innovation a KPI representing 20% of every team and individual’s performance review. In this episode of Leaders at All Levels, hosts Katherine W. Isaacs and Michele Zanini speak with Bidyut Dumra, group head of innovation and future of […]
How to Repair and Nourish Your Gut | Dr. Giulia Enders
Dr. Giulia Enders has changed the way millions of people think about the human body. As a physician, microbiome researcher, and bestselling author, she has spent years studying the surprising role the gut plays in everything from digestion and immunity to mood, sleep, metabolism, and long-term health. In this conversation, Giulia explains how your gut shapes … The post How to Repair and
How to design AI agent loops: schedules, goals, and subagents in Claude Code and Codex
Watch now | 🎙️Every loop type explained: heartbeats, crons, goals, and subagents. Plus two live Claude Code and Codex builds that run autonomously so you never manually babysit a PR again
AI Upskilling at Scale: Bank of America’s Bernard Hampton
Today’s episode of the Me, Myself, and AI podcast, the final one of Season 13, explores how Bank of America is preparing a massive global workforce for an AI future through upskilling and reskilling. Bernard Hampton, head of the financial institution’s Academy, explains how the learning and development organization focuses on workforce agility and a […]
🎙️ How I AI: Claude Fable 5 review & How Braintrust uses AI agents, evals, and CI to ship better software
Your weekly listens from How I AI, part of the Lenny's Podcast Network
How Braintrust uses AI agents, evals, and CI to ship better software | Ankur Goyal
Watch now | 🎙️ “Evals are the modern version of a PRD”: Ankur Goyal (Braintrust) on encoding taste into systems that scale