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the agent's weekly read
Observed-scene posts keep outperforming framework posts 3:1. Comment quality is the story: VP-level readers confessing. Thursday 09:00 remains the best slot by ~40%.
- The 'silent exec' post drew 12 comments from VP-level readers — reply to the three longest ones; that thread is doing your prospecting for you.
- Observed-scene posts outperform framework posts 3:1 on your profile. Next week's offsite post is a framework post — consider opening it with a scene.
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| 13 Jul | The most senior person in the room speaks last, or the room learns to speak like them. I sat in on a leadership meeting last week where the CEO opened with his view 'just to frame things'. textvia Vantageall-time #1 | 201 | 38 | 298 | ×2.9 |
| 9 Jul | Your calendar is your org chart. Show me a COO with 34 weekly meetings and I'll show you 12 decisions nobody owns. textvia Vantage | 88 | 16 | 126 | ×1.2 |
| 6 Jul | 'We're like a family here' is the most expensive sentence in leadership. Families don't do performance reviews. textvia Vantageall-time #3 | 132 | 29 | 202 | ×1.9 |
| 2 Jul | A CEO told me he has an open-door policy. His last dissenting opinion walked through it eight months ago. textvia Vantage | 76 | 13 | 108 | ×1.0 |
| 29 Jun | The promotion that ruins great operators: the best IC becomes the worst manager when the org skips the grief phase. Yes, grief. You're asking them to bury the job they loved. textvia Vantageall-time #2 | 154 | 33 | 235 | ×2.2 |
| 25 Jun | Watch who gets interrupted in your leadership meeting. Now watch who never does. That's your real hierarchy, and it's probably not your org chart. textvia Vantage | 62 | 11 | 87 | ×0.8 |
| 22 Jun | The Monday test for feedback: if the person can't do something differently on Monday because of what you said on Friday, you gave adjectives, not feedback. textvia Vantage | 95 | 21 | 146 | ×1.4 |
| 18 Jun | Executive teams don't need more honesty. They need cheaper honesty. If truth costs social capital, you'll only hear it from people with capital to burn. textvia Vantage | 58 | 9 | 79 | ×0.8 |
| 15 Jun | I watched a leadership team spend 50 minutes on the office plant budget and 10 on a €2M make-or-buy decision. Parkinson knew. Comfort is the enemy of governance. textvia Vantageall-time #4 | 118 | 26 | 182 | ×1.7 |
| 11 Jun | Every exec team has a designated pessimist. Fire the role, keep the person: rotate who argues the against-case, and watch the quality of your yes. textvia Vantage | 71 | 12 | 101 | ×1.0 |
| 8 Jun | The best leadership meeting I sat in this year had an agenda item called 'what are we pretending not to know?'. Fourteen minutes of silence, then the real meeting started. textvia Vantage | 83 | 15 | 119 | ×1.1 |
| 4 Jun | New managers over-correct into niceness. The kindest thing you can do for a struggling report is precision. textvia Vantage | 49 | 8 | 68 | ×0.7 |
| 1 Jun | Offsites don't fix operating systems. A two-day retreat cannot repair what your Monday meeting breaks fifty times a year. textvia Vantageall-time #5 | 102 | 19 | 149 | ×1.4 |
| 28 May | 'Be more strategic' is not feedback. It's a horoscope. textvia Vantage | 66 | 10 | 89 | ×0.9 |
| 21 May | The silence after 'any questions?' is not agreement. It's the sound of people calculating the price of asking. textvia Vantage | 91 | 17 | 131 | ×1.3 |
| 14 May | Coaching note from this week: the CEO who says 'my team can't prioritize' has usually given them 11 priorities. textvia Vantage | 57 | 9 | 78 | ×0.7 |
| 11 Apr | Honored to have joined the panel on leadership in transformation at the Zurich Leadership Forum. text | 31 | 4 | 39 | ×0.4 |
| 19 Mar | Wonderful workshop with an executive team in Milan this week. Grateful for the trust. image | 24 | 3 | 30 | ×0.3 |
| 20 Feb | 10 lessons from 15 years of coaching executive teams. A thread. text | 19 | 2 | 23 | ×0.2 |
| 26 Jan | New blog post: why psychological safety is misunderstood. text | 12 | 1 | 14 | ×0.1 |