The best leaders are great followers. How to build good habits & break bad ones. 21 lessons from 14 years at Google.

One “must” for this week: The best leaders are great followers

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and Amy Edmondson argue that top leaders succeed by being excellent followers: listening, deferring to expertise, and learning from others with humility.

Examples such as Satya Nadella, Mary Barra, and Tim Cook show how followership is an an underrated leadership skill essential for modern organizations.

Personal development

• How to build good habits & break bad ones

• A longevity blueprint for leaders - movement & nutrition

• Hope vs realism: the stockdale paradox

• How to get unstuck: simple somatic regulation practices

• How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: silicon valley’s missing etiquette playbook

• How to speak with confidence when you’re put on the spot

• The end of history illusion

• What exactly is energy?

Innovation

• 21 lessons from 14 years at Google

• 2025: the year in LLMs

• A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks

• AI changed work forever in 2025

• Microsoft’s Nadella wants us to stop thinking of AI as ‘slop’

• The future of autonomous vehicles (AVs)

• The global risks report 2026

• Why strategy matters in the age of AI

Leadership and management

• The best leaders are great followers

• Avoid “ASAP” and other high-strung, non-specific words

• Growth mindset

• Is your leadership style too nice?

• Show your customers how hard you’re working for them

• ST.R.E.A.M: status rules everything around me

• Talent is the key in an AI age

• The shape of leadership

One book

“The culture map” by Erin Meyer.