Shared Links (weekly) Sept. 28, 2025
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Worth Reading – The Real Cost of Poor Leadership in Workplaces
When good talent does leave, as the article mentions, they often cite the need to get away from their manager. However, bad managers don’t exist in a vacuum. They are created in a poor culture, which comes straight from the top.
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Worth Reading – Why Remote Managers Burn Out Without Knowing It
I stopped my quote at that word “intentional” for a reason. I use that word often in this context. Whether you have teammates who are fully remote, hybrid, or just located in a different office from you, everything needs to be done intentionally. Communication, meetings, goals, expectations, etc., all need to be purposely set. If you want your team to feel free to disconnect after hours or on weekends, then you have to do that intentionally. If you allow work to creep into every hour of every day, or get lazy about communication, or demand an immediate response to an email late at night, even one time, you set the example that your team follows.
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Shared Links (weekly) July 27, 2025
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Do You Feel Pressured to Work From the Plane?
Years from now, is anyone going to remember that thing you tied yourself into a pretzel to complete while 30,000 feet in the air? It’s unlikely. But your body and brain will be affected by the rest you didn’t get.
The goal of life is not to spend every minute being productive. There’s so much more than that.
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Worth Reading – AI is turbocharging worker productivity but it’s also wreaking havoc on their mental health
It’s the classic conundrum for workers. If you’re the most productive member of your team, what’s your reward?
More work.
If you’re the most productive member of your team using AI, what’s your reward?
More work, while being more isolated, to work with the AI.
