The three traits that make or break a team and what the research says about each.

Building a business partnership or a high-performing team is, at bottom, a series of judgments about what each person actually brings. The most durable shorthand for those judgments comes from Warren Buffett, who has ...

Psychoanalysis was the first comprehensive framework for understanding the mind. Knowing it doesn't make you an analyst — it makes you literate in the structure that every later therapy built on, argued with, or rediscovered.

Most people think of therapy as a matter of technique — choosing betwe...

Reading other people's emotions well is a real strength — until it isn't held by anything. Attunement without the capacity to stay separate curdles into two failures that look like care and aren't: taking on what isn't yours, and softening the truth to keep the peace.

Emotional attunement gets tr...

Conflict doesn't just make us emotional — it makes us think worse, in specific and predictable ways. The good news is that the degradation is trainable, and there are a few concrete tools for staying clear when the room gets hot.

Most people assume the problem with conflict is emotional: you get an...

Why the Classical Analytic Frame Struggles to Hold the Founder's Mind

The neutral, hierarchical stance was built for a different kind of patient — and the field's own relational turn points to what actually works.

The founder is not a typical patient.

They tend to be high-agency, creative, int...

Three thinking tools for making better decisions under uncertainty

Most leadership advice is about behavior — how to communicate, motivate, delegate. But underneath the behavior sits something more basic that rarely gets trained directly: the quality of a leader's thinking. Every decision, every st...

Trying to eliminate our biases doesn't work — the research is clear on that. What works is running a better process. Here's the difference, and why it matters for leaders.

There's a quiet assumption underneath a lot of leadership development: that the goal is to become more objective. Strip out the...