by Dr. Jessica Kriegel | May 28, 2025
Good Leaders Lie We’ve all heard the phrase “good leaders lie”—and not because they’re malicious, but because they think they have to. To protect morale. To manage optics. To keep calm. But that instinct to shield employees from the truth? It’s doing more harm than...
by Dr. Jessica Kriegel | May 21, 2025
Why That Offsite Didn’t Fix Anything You can spend a fortune on a company offsite, deliver inspiring keynotes, fill whiteboards with arrows, and get everyone “jazzed”—and still end up right back where you started. That fleeting post-offsite energy fades fast if it’s...
by Dr. Jessica Kriegel | May 14, 2025
AI is moving fast. Some leaders are using that momentum to inspire progress. Others are hiding behind it to justify layoffs, confusion, or fear. This week, I looked at how three CEOs communicated their AI strategies—and what their choices reveal about leadership...
by Dr. Jessica Kriegel | May 7, 2025
I’m currently reading Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About The Sixties, a memoir of ideological disillusionment by David Horowitz and Peter Collier. Coincidentally, Horowitz passed away last week at 86 years old, which has me reflecting more deeply on the...
by Dr. Jessica Kriegel | Apr 23, 2025
Last week’s Blue Origin space launch—featuring Katy Perry and an all-female crew—was marketed as a celebration of empowerment. But the public wasn’t buying it. The mission felt hollow, more spectacle than substance. While media attention centered on celebrity, the...
by Dr. Jessica Kriegel | Apr 16, 2025
In the early days of my career at Oracle, “disruption” was a buzzword so overused it became almost meaningless. We talked about it like it was the holy grail. If you weren’t disrupting something—your process, your product, your industry—you weren’t leading. So when...
