The Unofficial Leader
IanI write to connect the dots across leadership, power, culture, and human dynamics so we can better understand what's happening beneath the surface and choose our next move. Helping unofficial leaders see clearly and move wisely.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 38 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 19 days ago |
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Trust Is the Infrastructure of Change
I start a new role soon and, for the first time in my career, I’ll be stepping into a formal people leader role. It’s got me thinking a lot about what leadership has meant to me up to this point, and what I want it to mean going forward
Th...
Running a Product Team of Models (Without Losing the Plot)
Yesterday I started building FastTrack from my phone, on my couch.
By that night, it was a working product: a local-first fasting and weight app, live as a PWA, with cloud sync, a six-phase roadmap, and a real design direction starting to...
The Tuesday Test
The Starbucks AI inventory story is interesting because it’s very easy to treat it as a story about Starbucks, or a tool that didn’t work, but I don’t think that’s really the takeaway here. To me, it’s a pretty clear example of where a lot...
Before the Next Reduction
Three weeks into my time at my last company, they did a 13% reduction in force. I was new enough to the organization and the industry that I was still in the disorientation phase, still learning where the bathrooms were, still trying to pla...
Acknowledge the hard, then let's get moving
Today is a hard day for 600 of my former colleagues. I’m thinking about all of you.
It’s supposed to be hard. This isn’t supposed to feel good.
But I’m excited about what’s next, even though I don’t know what that is yet.
If you want to...
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