In cardiology, “irregularly irregular” describes a heart rhythm with no predictable pattern. Even the irregularity is unpredictable. Leaders can do this too. If you are consistently difficult, I can develop a strategy for navigating you. But erratic unpredictability creates something different: stress, anxiety, and hypervigilance. Energy is spent watching, assessing, and navigating rather than strategizing, collaborating, and challenging. I am reading Careless People, and thi

My goal this year is to give you fewer solutions and more ideas that make you stop, question, and think. Because something has changed. AI has arrived! When answers become cheap, questions become valuable. Type in a question and bam! Answer. I worry that the convenience and speed of answers will allow complacency and dull our thinking. The scarce resource is no longer information. It is the ability to ask a really good question. AI can synthesize extraordinary amounts of in