Insights: real situations, and the logic of how corporate actually works

Every team sits inside a bigger system. Nicole Lundgren looks at leadership through three connected layers: the people, the team dynamics, and the organisation around them.

Most people walk into a review with a list of tasks. I ask one question instead: what was different afterwards? That's the sentence that moves a decision.

Saying you're overloaded gives your manager nothing to act on. Saying which two things fit this quarter, and which one doesn't, gives them a decision to make.