Shared Links (bi-weekly) June 28, 2026
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Worth Reading – The trap of being promoted from within
When you get the title, people will bring you things and hand off responsibility to things that you didn’t know existed. Even though you were sitting right there, in the team that you now lead, you don’t know how many things the previous person in that chair never bothered to tell you about, or the relationships across other teams that made their life easier that you need to build. Many of those things didn’t just happen; effort went into knowing what to do and who to talk to.
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Worth Reading – Employment data shows the early signs of AI job disruption are already here
While there may be growth opportunities in blue-collar industries, you don’t suddenly become a plumber or electrician. It’s a long learning process that doesn’t scale well for that many unemployed people. This is reskilling at a massive, rapid scale, but we have to admit that whatever reskilling we’ve done in the past hasn’t been that good.
Do we expect what we’ve done before to ever match current and future needs? I don’t think it will, and that’s a problem that should be addressed. We need different, serious ideas, but I don’t see many of them out there.
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Worth Reading – Why Your People Managers Are the Weakest Link in Learning and Development
There are many organizations that claim to have a learning culture, but the reality is very different. The real culture is that people are rewarded and promoted based on hourly billable or other targets, leaving no time for learning.
That’s your culture.
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Shared Links (weekly) April 12, 2026
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Worth Reading – Nobody Is Coming to Save Your Career
It doesn’t take much to stand out as a manager when no one is taking the time to even ask about the career goals of the people who report to you. The organization probably isn’t going to provide much in the way of talent development budget, but if you can just show you care and provide some mentorship, you’ll be outdoing 90% of the managers out there.
