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10/13/2026

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10/10/2026

Why the return to office is exhausting you by 2pm and how to manage your energy through it.

If you’ve been back in the office full-time and you’re wiped out halfway through the day, you’re not weak and you’re not alone. Two years of remote work genuinely rewired our social batteries and focus patterns. In-person work carries a cognitive load most people underestimate: constant low-level interaction, no control over your environment, and context-switching all day.

The fix isn’t to push through and crash. It’s to manage your energy, not just your calendar:
Block your highest-stakes, highest-visibility work for the morning, when your presence lands most
Protect one real focus block — door closed, no exceptions
Batch the casual interactions (hallway chats, drive-bys) into the afternoon when you’re running low anyway

This is a transition with no map. Being strategic about your energy is how you sustain your performance.

From my Decoding Corporate series on surviving RTO and the future of work. How’s the return to office treating your energy? 👇 Save this.



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10/08/2026

Hot take: remote work didn’t kill productivity, it exposed managers who could only manage by watching people.

A lot of the remote-work panic was never about output. It was about visibility. Some managers only knew how to assess performance by seeing who was at their desk. Remove the desk, and they couldn’t tell who was contributing, because they’d never learned to define or measure outcomes.

That’s not an employee problem. It’s a management skill gap that remote work revealed. And many return-to-office (RTO) mandates are an attempt to restore presence as a proxy for performance instead of building the harder skill: defining “done” and measuring real results.

To be clear, there are genuine reasons for in-person work: collaboration, mentorship, culture. But “I can’t tell if they’re working” isn’t one of them.

From my Decoding Corporate series on the future of work. Managers, where do you land? 👇

10/06/2026

How to protect your voice and personal brand when AI writes everything.

Personal brand in the AI era is a brand-new problem. When everything you publish sounds like everyone else’s AI output, your voice has left the room, even though your name is still on it. In 2026, slick and forgettable is the worst possible professional brand.

The fix: know where to keep your fingerprints.
The original observation only you would make
The specific example from your actual experience
The opinion that comes from your years in the room, not a model’s training data

Use AI as a production tool — let it draft, format, and speed you up. But the editorial judgment, the point of view, and the lived perspective stay yours.

AI can produce your content. It cannot produce you. The creators and professionals who win in the AI era are the ones who use it for leverage without outsourcing their actual voice.

From my Decoding Corporate series on AI, personal branding, and the future of work. How are you keeping your voice yours? 👇 Save this.

10/03/2026

How to use return-to-office face time to actually advance your career.

Everyone’s back in the office, and most people are wasting it, doing the exact same work they did at home, just with a commute attached. Physical presence creates career opportunities remote work can’t replicate, but only if you’re intentional about it.

Three deliberate in-person moves that build career capital:
Be intentional about who you have lunch with, it’s relationship capital, not just a break
Move sensitive, relational, or career-defining conversations to face-to-face, where they land completely differently than over chat
Be visibly making things happen, not just visibly present, there’s a real difference between being seen at your desk and being seen driving an outcome

If you have to be in the office, make the time work for you instead of just enduring it. Presence without intention is just a longer commute.

From my Decoding Corporate series on RTO, networking, and career growth. What’s your best in-office career move? 👇 Save this for your next office day.

10/01/2026

Should you tell your boss you used AI?

AI disclosure at work is a credibility question, and there’s not really a framework for it. The instinct is to hide it — because using AI can feel like admitting you didn’t really do the work. That instinct is backwards.

A simple decision tree:
Did AI materially shape the output — the actual thinking, not just spellcheck? If yes, mention it.
How to frame it: “I used AI to accelerate the first draft, and here’s where my judgment came in.”

That framing does something powerful. It signals you’re fluent with the tools AND that you’re the one steering them. In 2026, leading with how you used AI is almost always the power move, not the liability it feels like.

The people hiding their AI use look like they’re behind. The people who frame it well look like they’re ahead of the curve.

From my Decoding Corporate series on AI at work and professional credibility. Do you disclose AI use at work? Where’s your line? 👇 Save this.

09/29/2026

The networking mistake that kills your connections, and the fix.

You have a great conversation, say “let’s stay in touch!” and then nothing happens for years.

“Let’s stay in touch” is a social exit, not a commitment. It sounds warm, but it puts all the follow-up work on the other person, which means it never happens.

The fix: end with one concrete micro-ask where YOU own the next step.
Not “we should grab coffee sometime” (vague, dies immediately)
Instead: “Can I send you that article I mentioned?” or “Would it be okay if I introduced you to someone you should know?”

Small. Specific. And critically, you’re the one who acts next.

That tiny shift is the difference between a contact and a real connection. Networking isn’t about collecting people, it’s about creating a genuine reason to talk again, and owning the follow-through.

From my Decoding Corporate series on networking and relationship-building. What’s your go-to way to keep a connection alive? 👇 Save this for your next event.

09/26/2026

Hot take: most companies don’t have a feedback culture, they have a feedback ritual.
A feedback ritual is the twice-a-year performance review, the form you fill out, the retro that produces a doc nobody reads again. It looks like feedback and checks the box, but nothing actually changes.

A feedback culture is different: feedback close to the moment, specific enough to act on, and safe enough that people say the real thing. Most organizations have the ritual and call it the culture.

The tell: if feedback only happens on a calendar, it’s a ritual. If it happens because something just occurred and someone cared enough to name it well, that’s culture.

This is one of the most common gaps I see in organizations, and closing it is less about new processes and more about psychological safety plus manager skill.

From my Decoding Corporate series on workplace culture and leadership. Ritual or culture, which is your org actually in? 👇

09/24/2026

Why some people’s ideas always land at work, and how to make yours land too.

Some people walk into a room and what they say just lands. And sometimes it’s about framing. Influence can be a structure, and once you see the pattern you can use it.

Three language moves that drive influence:
Lead with their priority, not your request — open with what they care about, not what you want
Name the implication, not just the observation — not “our response time is slow” but “our slow response time is why we lost those two accounts”
Give them an easy first yes — a low-friction next step, so agreeing feels small instead of risky

Influence can come from being the clearest about what actually matters to the person you’re trying to move.

From my Decoding Corporate series on workplace communication and influence. Which of these are you going to try first?

👇 Save this for your next pitch.

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