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If you haven't decided what your team needs before you interview someone, you will end up judging the iced coffee 🧊 ☕ If you've been on LI for even 5 minutes this past week, you've read about Gen Z candidates bringing iced coffee to job interviews. Half the comments call it unprofessional - the other half couldn't care less. My question is: What was the interviewer/OP in question really assessing? In my years in talent acquisition, I heard one sentence in intake meetings mor

Twice this month, someone tried to recruit me for a job that does not exist. 🤦‍♀️ I did not fall for it but only because I was paying proper attention that morning. On a different morning, at the end of a harder week, I am less sure. Here's what happened The first email arrived at 1:32 AM CET. A recruiter at a large US insurer, writing about a confidential search. My background, she wrote, had stood out during their shortlist review. I had never applied to anything. The seco

This year I stopped managing people. For the first time in a very long time, there was no team, no 9AM stand-ups, no weekly 1:1s, no banter with people on the same boat. What replaced it was managing Claude: writing detailed prompts, checking every output, correcting all the little details. At some point last week I realized that I was working in a way that would terrify me if Claude was a real person I was supposed to lead. You see, for most of my career, my approach to #lea

"My problem isn't just getting through the workday. It's that I've stopped believing that it's going to get any better." If that sounds like you, you may be struggling with more than just tiredness - and it's a surprisingly common pattern. The truth is we have been naming #work exhaustion for a long time. In 1869, neurologist George Miller Beard called it neurasthenia, a nervous exhaustion from the pace of modern industrial life. A century later, Herbert Freudenberger gave it

Q1 2026 didn't feel like a normal quarter. AI adoption accelerated. Org structures flattened. New terms entered the workplace like "workslop", "burn-on" and "coffee-badging". Underneath all of this sits the same pattern: organizations making big moves without a plan behind them. The Flattening of Middle Management Gartner's 2024 predictions report estimated that by the end of 2026, 20% of organizations will use #AI to flatten their structures and cut more than half of their m

If you scroll long enough, you'd think the world of #work is only getting worse. But that's not entirely true. In 2025, some things genuinely moved in the right direction, and beyond that, there are quietly uplifting shifts taking place and real opportunities starting to form. That's why, in this two-part post, I'm choosing to focus on hope. Here's my take as we head into the new year. AI Is No Longer a Concept. It's a Working Tool. Stanford's 2025 #AI Index confirmed somethi

By now, you’re probably sick of reading about AI. I am too. Most of the content about AI is either written by AI or written by someone trying to convince you it’s the second coming of electricity. Revolutionary as it is, I want to explore a slightly different angle and something far more personal: the moral choices leaders face when deciding where AI belongs in their day-to-day #work. AI is great at certain things. Summarizing a meeting transcript so you can focus on listenin

The job market isn’t bouncing back as fast as we hoped. Admittedly, we've seen worse. Nevertheless, if the current situation is causing...