14 questions to ask an employee who’s struggling during your next one-on-one meeting so you can figure out how to best help. Someone’s slipping. You see it. You feel it. You’re not on the same page…
Questions for the Chair
A good meeting, and five questions the press conference left open.
Questionable Advice: “How can I sniff out bad managers while interviewing for a job?”
A few weeks ago I got a question from Stephane Bjorne on twitter, about how to screen for bad managers and/or management culture. This is a great question. I’ve talked a lot about my philosop…
Three Questions on Questions: On Asking, Knowing and Noticing
This was Kristen DiCerbo, Khan Academy’s Chief Learning Officer, in a recent Chalkbeat article. She was offering her explanation for why Khanmigo hadn’t lived up to its promise. I was reminded of a…
Three questions any founders should be able to answer
Stress test your product-market fit with these three simple questions
When to Fold: The Cost of Failing Slow in a Startup
Failing Slow: Why One Founder Regretted Keeping His Startup Alive
The Interview Question Bank for Engineering Managers
Organised by theme, and every question comes with a short thinking prompt
13 Provocative Questions CTOs Don’t Ask - Yaniv Preiss
With great power comes great responsibility to ask powerful, provocative questions
Why I Slack
Earlier this year, I ran a survey to get ideas about how leaders could mobilize. 1311 of you filled out the survey which mean I’m certain the results are full o
Opinion | The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews (Published 2017)
We use them to try to “get to know” people. It doesn’t work.
Disappointed Optimists
Every time I give a talk on design, someone finds me afterward. They wait out the handshakes and the business cards, and then they ask a version of the same question. How do I make THEM do things the
Peter Gostev on Twitter / X
I've got a fun new benchmark for you where most LLMs are doing pretty badly - "Bullshit Benchmark".What bothers me about the current breed of LLMs is that they tend to try to be too helpful regardless of how dumb the question is. So I've built 55 'bullshit' questions that don't… pic.twitter.com/4o4quN5EFR— Peter Gostev (@petergostev) February 24, 2026
(PDF) Leadership Failure in the Eyes of Subordinates: Perception, Antecedents, and Consequences *
PDF | Effective leaders and leadership behaviors and practices are well-researched areas in the domain of leadership and management. However,... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
How to Get Things Done When You Don’t Feel Like It: Five strategies for pushing through: Queue: Vol 16, No 4
If you want to be successful, then it serves you better to rise to the occasion no matter what. That means learning how to push through challenges and deliver valuable results.
The loss of staff belonging in higher education
Nick Hulbert-Williams argues that what looks like low morale and change fatigue in HE may really be a crisis of belonging
