Rob the Manager

San Francisco housing is unaffordable for most people. This drives out diversity. It makes businesses less competitive because salary costs…

San Francisco tech workers are about to get a lot more liquid in 2019.

Investors tend to have home country bias. This means they over-index in their own country.

Innovation is the lifeblood of company growth. It’s the lifeblood of overall economic growth. We all want it. It can be very hard to do…

Many execs don’t get frequent, direct, accurate feedback.

Managerial effectiveness is so darn qualitative. Shouldn’t we have comprehensive manager analytics? Moneyball for managers?

A promise of blockchain is decentralization. This could include organizations. What would this mean for organizations and leadership?

From Isaac Asimov’s 1959 essay on creativity, where he asks, “How Do People Get New Ideas?”

It’s easy to fall prey to the urgent, not the important. It’s hard to avoid the daily whirlwind your job and team throw at you.

If you or someone close to you is searching for purpose in work, here’s a wonderful read: Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of…

I get questions around savings and retirement occasionally from my team because savings, 401Ks, insurance, buying a home, etc, tie in with…

Every new manager messes up at some point. What really matters is whether he or she responds with grace and humility, is quickly able to…

If you create management development programs, you get to judge the quality of learning content — and possibly create it yourself.

If you work in management and leadership development, you are an advisor. Your job is to help managers and leaders become more effective…