_The DORA research said culture predicts engineering performance. Nicole Forsgren's most important finding never made it into a single commercial product._
As a computer scientist, I love data. Things feel good, things feel bad, but our biases shape those feelings, and data is what pulls the signal out. I've believed that since my first software engineering job.
At that first job, I was…
Let’s be honest.
Agile isn’t failing in your organization.
Your portfolio management is.
Most Agile transformations focus on teams:
Scrum ceremonies
backlog grooming
sprint velocity
Jira dashboards
And teams do improve.
But the business outcome?
Still disappointing.
The Real Problem: Agile Solves Delivery, Not Decisions
Agile is great at answering:
“How do we deliver this faster?”
But…
In a modern network paradigm dominated by pervasive metadata harvesting, upstream traffic analysis, and centralized data choke points, routing privacy is no longer a niche preference—it is a foundational pillar of structural self-sovereignty.
My first meeting at Converse was a 50-person standup. The scrum lead had every engineer type their status into an application. She would present it. Then they would read it off the screen, one by one, as the rest of us watched. Twenty software engineers. Six QA. Status after status after status, read aloud, to an audience that could have just read it themselves. That was my introduction to the…
_Originally published on lavkesh.com_
I was working on a project with a tight deadline when my team lead asked me to review a colleague's code. The code had inconsistent naming conventions, duplicated logic, and no comments. I wrote a scathing review, pointing out all the flaws and suggesting that the code be rewritten from scratch.
My colleague was defensive and hurt by my feedback, and the…
_Originally published on lavkesh.com_
When I cleared my calendar for a full week, the silence in the conference room felt like a sudden vacuum that made me wonder how the team would keep moving without my constant presence.
The first day was uneasy; a handful of Slack pings arrived asking whether I had missed something, but by the second morning the messages thinned and colleagues began posting…
_Originally published on Rough Edges._
There's a pattern I've watched play out in more than one organization. From a distance it looks like high performance. Up close it's something else.
A strong engineer – relentless, demonstrably capable, the kind of person who ships when others stall – has the ear of the CTO. The project is high-stakes. Delivery feels close. And the closer it gets, the more…
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BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM The strategy is fine. The team is capable. But at the end of the quarter, the needle hasn’t moved. Julie Turpin, Chief People Officer at Brown & Brown, says this pattern almost always traces back to the same thing: habits. “Results that stick are built by habits that stick […]
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Kathy Roberts Forde, a journalist professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, says that it’s critical that journalists and media organizations stop pretending that there is a neutral way to cover the news that expresses no underlying values.…
Volume tells you something happened. It can't tell you what to do about it until you know why. The same number can mean a critical bug or a fast-growing customer base.
Daisy Tulley is grappling with becoming the figurehead of Mucho Group as she steps into the role of CEO.
The post “Responding without hierarchy, ego, or assumptions”: Daisy Tulley’s personal brand of leadership appeared first on hospitality | Magazine.
“Nothing about us without us” shouldn’t be read as exclusion. After all, every community needs allies. Instead, it should be understood as a call for more accurate, grounded, and accountable leadership.
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Dans Mes dix leçons de leadership au féminin en contexte africain de Kely Motue Simeu (Éditions Ifrikiya, 2023), l’auteure propose une réflexion sur le leadership féminin nourrie par un parcours mêlant responsabilité bancaire, gestion des risques et entrepreneuriat social. Devenue dirigeante à 33 ans au sein de la première banque de son pays après une […]
L’article Kely Motue Simeu : « Le…
AI will fail. The question is whether you're ready for it. A guide to responsible AI deployment for customer support leaders.
Discover key insights from the LA Hospitality Leadership Forum 2026, focusing on industry challenges and strategies for success.
The post Navigating the Future: Insights from the Los Angeles Hospitality Leadership Forum 2026 appeared first on Food & Beverage Magazine.
RIM Recruitment Professionals has named veteran executive recruiter and former top biller Steven Dubrinsky as Independent Director, Placement Services.
The post Steven Dubrinsky Joins RIM Recruitment Professionals Following More Than 11 Years with Goodwin Recruiting first appeared on Restaurant Magazine.
I wrote this devotional reflection on Acts 2:37-42 before Commitment Sunday on 10 May 2026, verses used in worship at Stockton Corps on the same day. There are moments when the gospel stops being an idea and becomes a summons. Acts 2:37-42 captures one of those moments. Peter’s words, spoken in the power of the … Continue reading Called to be a Leader →
If there’s one gaping misconception about customer success, it’s that it’s about being agreeable. Trust me, it isn’t. Customer success is about relationship capital, and the way you communicate is perhaps the most important deposit or withdrawal you can make.
The academy will deliver a leadership development program for hospitality managers and emerging leaders.
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In his latest column installment, Gupta reflects on a conversation between Jensen Huang and Ro Khanna that clarified the real constraint on U.S. AI leadership.
The post Gupta | AI without consent will fail appeared first on The Stanford Daily.
Leaders are simply better—more effective, more popular at their peaks, more trusted in the moments that matter—precisely when they refuse to pretend they are better than the rest of us.
Kōloa Rum announces Robert Ramer as COO, succeeding Bob Gunter. Discover the implications for growth and sustainability in Hawaiian spirits.
The post Kōloa Rum Welcomes Robert Ramer as COO: A New Chapter in Growth appeared first on Food & Beverage Magazine.
Dive into our reading list of must-read titles for revenue leaders. From RevOps guides to Navy SEALs leadership advice, you'll gain a new perspective.
A generation ago, state leaders collaborated to fix a K–12 nation at risk. Universities today need the same gubernatorial guidance.
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Alaskans take care of each other. It’s part of what defines life here. People look out for their neighbors, step up in hard moments and take pride in contributing to something bigger than themselves. That same spirit has long defined Alaska’s labor community. Unions helped build this state and continue to keep it running today, […]
Most companies today invest in customer research, and not on a small scale.
According to ESOMAR, the global insights and market research industry now exceeds $140 billion in annual revenue, with tens of billions spent each year specifically on market and consumer research. Studying customers has become a mainstream, well-funded practice rather than a niche capability.
I’ve worked across very…
BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM After two years of conversations with founders, executives, and leaders across industries, Liz Tran kept noticing the same thing: the most successful and fulfilled among them were not the ones who knew the most. They were the ones who had made peace with not knowing. Tran, a leadership coach […]
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Tim Cook has announced that he will step down as the CEO of Apple on September 1, handing over the reins to Apple's head of hardware engineering, John Ternus as he transitions to the role of executive chairman.
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The ASSU Elections Commission announced Jared Hammerstrom ’27 and Celeste Vargas ’27 as the winners of this year's Executive race. The pair will be joined by nine new Undergraduate Senators, 13 Graduate School Council representatives and 12 class presidents.
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