Practical Advice for Navigating the Age of AI: Finding Your Footing on Terra Incognita
While the AI-driven future if fraught with unknowns, you can still prepare — and you’ll be better off if you do.
Words and Phrases We Hate: A Non-Definitive List
Some words and phrases are so annoying or inaccurate that they hurt your writing rather than help. Here’s my list of pet peeves.
Writing Effective Event Evaluations
Evaluations help you plan and improve future events. Here’s a helpful template for writing your evaluation questionnaire.
Creativity Is the Edge AI Can’t Touch
Creativity is what will keep us original, adaptive, and irreplaceable in a world of streamlined processes and AI. It’s not just creatives who need to be creative. It’s everyone.
Climate’s Middle Managers: The Rise of the Adaptation Officer
Everyone funds the Net Zero narrative, but adaptation officers are quietly sandbagging the future against climate threats. Literally.
Legacy Tech Isn’t the Problem. Legacy Thinking Is.
Modernization requires an evolutionary approach to technology, design, and culture. Tech, process, people: that’s how we move the mission forward.
Having Interns on Your Team is a Win-Win-Win Solution
Create a win-win-win solution by working with interns.
How to Lead With Emotional Intelligence When Everything Feels Urgent
In high-stakes leadership, urgency is constant, but emotional intelligence helps you respond with clarity, not chaos, and lead with impact.
Agentic AI: A Quick Look Under the Covers
Agentic AI is actually a complex system of AI agents. Here’s insight into what that means, how agentic AI differs from other types of artificial intelligence, and what different types of AI agents do.
Hiring Smarter Under Constraints: How Federal People Leaders Can Build Strategic Teams Amid a Freeze
Investing in your people — through training, mentoring, and innovative team-building — is always important, even during a hiring freeze. Here’s how to equip your team with the skills it needs.