ISSUE #040 | THE LEADERSHIP CONTRARIAN

When an employee walks into your office or catches you in the hallway just to ask a quick question because they’re stuck, it can bring up a lot of emotions, depending on the person and what you’re doing at the moment.

It can be no big deal, and you encourage them to ask. It can be frustrating because you want your people to be problem solvers, and their problem just became yours.

ISSUE #039 | THE LEADERSHIP CONTRARIAN

Amidst all the flurry of AI over the last 24 months, and recent reports of our possible doom, we’ve heard a multitude of stories about how AI might be the next tool to catapult humanity forward or to enslave us as our new master.

To make sense of it, writers have been citing history and the repeated challenges we humans have had with new technology over the centuries. Some of the fear was warranted, and some of it turned out to be overblown. And sometimes the warnings were half right.

ISSUE #038 | THE LEADERSHIP CONTRARIAN

Richard Wilhelm was German and a friend of Carl Jung. Wilhelm spent over twenty years traveling China as a missionary and a Sinologist, which is a researcher who studies the things of China. During the time they were friends, Wilhelm told Jung this story.

ISSUE #037 | THE LEADERSHIP CONTRARIAN

Food can teach us a lot about life and leadership.

I love good meatloaf, but that wasn’t always the case.

Meatloaf has received some bad press over the years. Some people love it. A lot of people hate it, as if they'd been subjected to some form of childhood meatloaf trauma.