They fail because trust gets murdered in small, “well-meaning” ways. When I interviewed Igor Podoprigora, co-founder of Codigy, I expected a product conversation. Retrospectives. Catalogs. Cross-team collaboration. Templates. AI summaries. Jira syncing. And yes, we touched all of that. But the real conversation wasn’t about software. It was about something that quietly determines whether your organization can ever scale without breaking: trust. “Teams are organisms.” So why d

Sherif on courage, structure, and making space for every voice Some leadership moments don’t look like leadership at all. They look like someone quietly noticing that a room isn’t working, and choosing to say something. When Sherif spoke about this moment, what struck me wasn’t the tool he used or the outcome that followed. It was the orientation he had developed: I realized this format is not working for everyone. That sentence alone is leadership. The rooms that reward sile

Sandra on why leadership starts with how we talk to ourselves. When organizations struggle, communication is often named as the problem. But rarely do we ask the more uncomfortable question: What kind of communication are we actually talking about? During her interview, Sandra named something that sounds simple, yet goes straight to the heart of leadership. You don’t just learn how to communicate with others. You learn how to communicate with yourself first. That distinction

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