Leadership
26 pieces on Leadership
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Overhyped Today, Underhyped Tomorrow: A Conversation with Teo Borschberg
Augment AI founder Teo Borschberg on deploying AI agents safely, why approval fatigue defeats human-in-the-loop, hoping customers kill your idea, and the 11 times he wanted to quit the company he eventually exited.
·8 min read·AI / Leadership - 08
Leading From the Shadows: A Conversation with Clara Ma
Clara Ma, founder of Ask a Chief of Staff and former first chief of staff at Hugging Face, on the zone of genius, influence without authority, operational debt, and why AI makes the chief of staff role more important, not less.
·12 min read·Leadership / AI - 09
Fast Growth Is the Phase That Lies: A Conversation with Monika Mikowska
Monika Mikowska, co-founder of the UX agency Mobee Dick, on why fast growth is the phase that deceives founders, the cash-flow blind spot that nearly bankrupted her, working on the company versus in it, and measuring success in vitality, not revenue.
·10 min read·Leadership / Product - 10
Understand Reality Before You Fix It: A Conversation with Agata Lesniak
Agata Lesniak on building HR from absolute zero, why titles mean nothing without a voice, why the earlier HR joins the cheaper the cleanup, ego-less leadership, and doing offboarding right.
·8 min read·Leadership - 11
The PM Path Nobody Takes: A Conversation with Weronika Siatkowska
Weronika Siatkowska on moving from customer success to product manager, why empathy is a PM superpower, how to measure success for internal tools, why process is an enabler not bureaucracy, and rallying teams around a shared goal.
·10 min read·Product / Leadership - 12
Don't Assume You Are the Customer: A Conversation with Piotr Kacala
Product and engineering leader Piotr Kacala on the GOG Galaxy bet that was novel, hard, and wrong, why telling smart people what to do destroys them, the Dunbar breakpoints where teams break, and why delivery is a symptom.
·8 min read·Product / Leadership