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The Best AI Agent Managers are Ops Leaders, Not AI Specialists Via Harvard Business Review "The most effective emerged from roles already accountable for service quality, customer outcomes, and operational judgment. These individuals brought deep domain expertise and a lived understanding of what 'good' looks like in real customer interactions, capabilities that proved more necessary than formal AI credentials. Organizations that developed the role successfully treated the role as an apprenticeship, immersing managers in live operations, failure reviews, and iterative test–deploy–learn cycles, while clarifying decision rights and escalation paths early.

The Best AI Agent Managers are Ops Leaders, Not AI Specialists

21.02.2026 06:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Journalists and public officials have an ethical obligation to communicate with Civic Clarity Via Grammar Girl "I believe we may need civic clarity more deeply than we have in my lifetime. Civic clarity means not just gathering facts, checking out facts, making facts available to the public. It requires taking responsibility for what readers and viewers and listeners know and understand about the world." — Why Writing with 'Civic Clarity' Is So Important, with Roy Peter Clark (2020), …

Journalists and public officials have an ethical obligation to communicate with Civic Clarity

20.02.2026 06:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Leadership and management are distinct skills, and great operators need both Via Talks at Google It's a cop-out when people say, 'Well, I'm a better manager' or 'I'm a better leader'. Quite a lot of founders will say, 'Oh, well, I've got these leadership skills and other people can do the management.' I do agree that you probably innately spike in one or the other, but as your career progresses, you really have to learn both.

Leadership and management are distinct skills, and great operators need both

19.02.2026 06:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
For Managers: Stop trying to be the expert in the room and start coaching through curiosity Via Lenny's Podcast "Too many people think your job as a manager is to be the expert and tell people what to do. No, actually, your job is to enable people to be their very damn best on your team. You have to create an environment and a context and provide them information, and then you need to provide them a form of coaching.

For Managers: Stop trying to be the expert in the room and start coaching through curiosity

18.02.2026 06:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Instead of Giving Orders, Lead by Giving Intent and Ownership Via MindSpring "I was trained for submarine. My guys were trained to do what they were told. That's a deadly combination. We all know organizations where people just follow the leader into disastrous situations. So I got my guys together and I said, "Hey, we got a problem here." — MindSpring Presents: "Greatness" by David Marquet, at 0:19 Most organizations run on a dangerous default: a leader does all the thinking; everyone else follows.

Instead of Giving Orders, Lead by Giving Intent and Ownership

17.02.2026 06:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
On the job hunt: a great self-intro is all about the other person Via TED "I created an elevator pitch and included a complete list of my accomplishments. When I heard "Tell me about yourself," I was ready, and I proudly explained everything that I could do. When I finished, the interviewer said, "Instead of talking about yourself, it would have been more effective if you had explained what you can do for me." My interview lasted five minutes.

On the job hunt: a great self-intro is all about the other person

16.02.2026 06:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Boundaries are what you tell someone else you will do, and they require the other person to do nothing Via Lenny's Podcast "Boundaries are what you tell someone else you will do, and it requires the other person to do nothing. Too often I hear people say, "My kid doesn't respect my boundaries. My colleague doesn't respect my boundaries." And with all due respect, I think you have an incorrect definition of boundaries. I think you're making a request." [...] Because if you're setting what you call a boundary and you're really making a request, you're giving all of your power away to the other person.

Boundaries are what you tell someone else you will do, and they require the other person to do nothing

15.02.2026 07:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Repair is the Single Most Important Strategy for Maintaining Strong Relationships Via Lenny's Podcast "In our family, we say something . . . we actually now say it at work: 'Perfect is creepy.' I just think it encapsulates that you don't even want to be perfect. It's actually very creepy. Only nonhumans can ever be perfect. What defines the human condition is that we want to do well when we mess up over and over again.

Repair is the Single Most Important Strategy for Maintaining Strong Relationships

14.02.2026 07:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Effective AI usage needs management skills, not just prompting skills Via AI News & Strategy Daily | Nate B Jones The training market has bifurcated into just those two poles: the 101 Basics and the 401 level - technical implementation. It has skipped the middle entirely and the middle is where most of the productivity gains for most people actually live. The 201 level is where the question shifts from…

Effective AI usage needs management skills, not just prompting skills

13.02.2026 06:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Unlock real competitive advantage by connecting AI to your company’s proprietary data and context Via Every "I think it's the hardest part of AI, actually. And this is the part that has been so magical at this particular firm that we've been working with. Our partner basically interviewed every single investor and every single team to really understand the nuances with which a team collectively thinks about every part of the investment memo. This work that we've been able to do together would not have been possible if it didn't have such a high degree of tailoring.

Unlock real competitive advantage by connecting AI to your company's proprietary data and context

12.02.2026 06:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Use AI to automate away the annoying things first. Use the RDL framework to find ideal candidate use cases Via Annie Tsai Mistake number one is [...] wanting to automate the exciting things instead of the annoying things first. Start your agentic flows on automating the things that are repetitive, are data heavy, but are also low ambiguity — The Three Most Common Mistakes People Make with Building AI Agents—Annie Tsai at 00:53 Most teams start their AI agent journey by reaching for the most ambitious use case…

Use AI to automate away the annoying things first. Use the RDL framework to find ideal candidate use cases

11.02.2026 08:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Consuming information is not the same as learning. To learn, we must Experience, Reflect, Abstract, and Act in a Learning loop Via Farnam Street "There's no shortage of good content available but transitioning that into actual learning is different than just consuming information. So often we think that experiences, be it reading or conversation, translate into knowledge. But [...] what we really need to do is reflect on those and work backwards. We need the active reflection. We need the mental work: What is it about that situation that worked?

Consuming information is not the same as learning. To learn, we must Experience, Reflect, Abstract, and Act in a Learning loop

10.02.2026 07:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Forgiveness frees you, not the other person Via The Knowledge Project Podcast She said, 'I've come to a revelation. I will not bequeath a legacy of bitterness to my children about their father. I will not say a bad word about him no matter what he does.' When she said that, I was so moved. [...] She was saying, 'I'm not going to play this game. It stops with me.

Forgiveness frees you, not the other person

09.02.2026 09:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Small changes can make a big difference, but only if they accumulate Via The Knowledge Project Podcast Small changes can really matter, but only if they're oriented in the right way. [...] Are your small actions accumulating or are they evaporating? Are you doing small things each day that are oriented toward a larger outcome or are you doing small things each day that are one-offs and don't really add up? — James Clear Shares Secrets to Habits, …

Small changes can make a big difference, but only if they accumulate

Via The Knowledge Project Podcast Small changes can really matter, but only if they're oriented in the right way. [...] Are your small actions accumulating or are they evaporating? Are you doing small things each day that are…

08.02.2026 06:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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