Coaching

AI makes the session feel smooth, and smooth is the signal motor-learning research tells you not to trust. Which reps you keep is now a decision you have to make on purpose.

A model will write kinder feedback than you will. It still can't tell you there's something to address, when to raise it, or when the right move is to say nothing.

Martial arts makes experts redo the basics on a schedule. Software has no such mechanism, so beginner's mind stops being a virtue and becomes a budget you spend on purpose.

You run 1:1s for your reports and hold space for clients. The higher you go, the less anyone does it for you — so run the meeting for yourself.

Most of what a leader needs to happen can't be ordered into existence. Five coaching moves that turn influence into leverage.