Psychology is the rigorous study of how people actually think and act — which is exactly what leadership runs on.

Psychology doesn't produce the clean, universal equations physics does. Human behavior is higher-variance and more context-dependent than the motion of a falling object, and predicting ...

The unconscious limits of advice and thinking

We've all been on both sides of it: receiving advice that feels irrelevant or simplistic to our actual situation, and giving advice that falls flat despite our best intentions. The disconnect traces back to a basic truth about minds — people can largely...

When the Number Becomes the Goal: Goodhart's Law and the Limits of Measuring People

The moment a measure becomes a target, people optimize the measure instead of the thing it was standing in for. For anything as human as leadership or growth, that's not a risk to manage — it's a reason to be carefu...

Groupthink doesn't come from a shortage of bold personalities. It comes from a process that rewards agreement. 

The popular story about innovation goes like this: organizations get stale, consensus calcifies, and what saves them is the maverick — the bold non-conformist who challenges the status qu...