BUSINESS

Stop Trying to Be “Nice” in Feedback Conversations 0
- Leadership
- October 2, 2026
You can usually tell when a manager has been avoiding a conversation. Their language gets foggy. “I just wanted to check in.” “There have been a few things.” “Some people have noticed.” Nobody knows what happened, what needs to change or whether the issue is serious. The manager calls it being nice. The employee experiences
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Stop Calling It an AI Strategy if Your Managers Are Left to Figure It Out Alone 0
- Leadership
- September 25, 2026
Somewhere in your business, a manager is trying to answer questions you should have answered before the AI subscription was approved. Can I put this customer information into the tool? How do I assess a draft when the employee used AI to create it? If a task now takes twenty minutes instead of an hour,
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Stop Funding Tariffs and Supply-Chain Costs With Your Own Cash 0
- Finance
- September 24, 2026
Tariffs, freight surcharges and changing supplier routes do not arrive as a neat line in your cash forecast. They show up as slightly more expensive stock, a larger deposit, an invoice due before the goods sell, and a bank balance that feels tighter than last month’s revenue suggests it should. Citi’s 2026 global supply-chain finance
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The New Customer Journey Is Scroll, Message, Buy 0
- Marketing and Sales
- September 23, 2026
The old customer journey used to get drawn as a funnel. Discover, consider, convert. Very orderly. Very flattering to our spreadsheets. Real life has become more like this: someone sees a 14-second video while waiting for the kettle to boil, sends a message because they have one specific question, and buys if the answer arrives
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When the Business Is Growing but Your Life Is Shrinking 0
- Health and Wellbeing
- September 22, 2026
There is a kind of growth that looks wonderful from a distance. More customers. More revenue. More people who know your name. The business you once described carefully to anyone who would listen is now becoming real enough to make demands on your calendar. And somewhere along the way, your world gets smaller. You decline
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Your Return-to-Office Policy Is Really a Trust Policy 0
- Leadership
- September 18, 2026
An employee asks whether they can keep working from home two days a week. You say the team needs more time together. They hear: I do not trust you unless I can see you. You may not mean that. You may be worried about mentoring a junior hire, a handover that keeps going wrong, or
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