The Hugging Face incident should increase our concern about artificial intelligence. It should not increase our certainty about its future. In July, artificial intelligence agents being tested by OpenAI
Category: Operational Leadership
Lloyd Blankfein’s latest career advice is simple enough: care about your coworkers, guard your reputation, and remember that every employee contributes to the firm’s culture. It’s good advice. The question
In January 2016, I was verbally informed by Goldman Sachs HR representative Craig Tamamoto that I was being terminated “for cause.” At the time, I was also told that I
Lloyd Blankfein’s recent comments on diversity, equity, and inclusion reveal a familiar tension inside elite corporate America: diversity is often celebrated in principle, right up until it begins influencing the
Another pattern I’ve seen: Work that exists to support execution slowly turns into work that exists to support optics. Information gets filtered. Updates get curated. The goal shifts from “what’s
One thing I’ve seen repeatedly: teams generate a huge amount of reporting—but very little of it actually drives decisions. At one point, I was part of a team producing over
What proper alignment actually looks like in an organization: A lot of teams talk about alignment, but in practice it’s often vague. In my experience, alignment isn’t a feeling—it shows
One pattern I keep seeing across teams and projects: Work doesn’t stall because people aren’t working hard. It stalls because no one owns the structure of the work. A few
Over the past year, my work hasn’t followed a traditional structure. I’ve been operating in a highly complex, high-stakes environment that required me to manage multiple parallel workstreams, track dependencies,
Summary Situation: The company wanted to implement a comprehensive performance measurement program for the entire staff. Task: Identify and report on key metrics that reflect the company’s four main goals.