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The quiet art of managing burnout
Psychologist Elena Marquez on spotting exhaustion before it spreads through a team, and what managers can do on Monday morning.
Elena Marquez — Organisational psychologist
3 episodes
Leadership up close
Leading people is mostly unglamorous: feedback, trade-offs and showing up on bad days. These episodes look at leadership from the inside, with managers who are honest about what they got wrong.
How to give feedback people actually hear
Engineering leader Theo Grant shares the one-on-one format he uses with 60 engineers, and why most feedback fails before the first sentence.
Leading remote teams across nine time zones
CTO Oliver Bennett on writing-first culture, async decisions and the meetings his team refuses to cancel.
Starting from zero
Founders walk through the first scrappy year: the first customer, the first hire and the money they nearly ran out of.
Creators and the business of attention
Writers, YouTubers and newsletter builders on turning an audience into steady, independent income.
Creative process
Designers, musicians and filmmakers share the habits and constraints that keep their work moving.
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