June 2026

Why Your Humanness Is Your Greatest Business Asset in the Age of AI Picture a busy professional, let’s call her Dana, sitting at her desk at 4:47 on a Tuesday afternoon. She needs an answer to a time-sensitive HR question about FMLA leave. Her company recently rolled out a shiny new AI assistant. “Perfect,” she […]

There’s a moment in every organization where someone thinks it. Maybe in a meeting, maybe filling out a process form for the fifteenth time, or maybe watching a good employee walk out the door over something entirely preventable. Why are we still doing it this way? Most people think it. Few people say it out

The new sales leader came in and immediately identified the team’s biggest problem. “The sales reps are leaving events early,” they told me. “That’s time theft, and it’s something I’m going to tackle right away.” I listened. What I wanted to say was, “The problem on this team isn’t time theft. The problem is leadership

Why the stumble is part of the swing — and how to start taking risks worth taking We have failure backwards. We treat it as an ending, a verdict on our ability, our worth, our potential. We rehearse it in worst-case scenarios before we even begin. We fear it. We hide it. And in doing