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Making Time to Build Judgment

2026-10-2711:43

Now that AI does more of the work, everyone is looking to us for judgment. So how do we spend the rest of our week to build it? In this episode, Leslie Ferry looks at how this shift affects three parts of a workweek: doing the work, thinking about it, and talking it through. She follows one AI-drafted recommendation as it becomes the right recommendation for its situation. In this episode: The one question to ask of any AI draft before it goes furtherThree kinds of conversations that bu...

The Challenge Is Yours Now

2026-10-1509:06

An investor asks where a company should focus next year, and a VP of Finance hands the question to one analyst on her team. A year or two ago, she would have built the plan herself and handed out the pieces. In this episode, Leslie Ferry explores one of the biggest ideas in her book: in what she calls the Upsurge Era, people leaders no longer manage tasks; they lead work forward. She walks through both sides of one piece of work, what the leader gives and what the person who takes it on bring...

Four Listeners, Four Paths to Clarity

2026-10-1310:12

An investor wants a new view of the company's performance by Thursday morning. Lena, a VP of Finance, gives her team one clear message, and on Wednesday afternoon, the analysis that comes back isn't what she asked for. In this episode, Leslie Ferry looks at four work approaches, the Energizer, the Captain, the Harmonizer, and the Introspective, and what each one tends to need to hear first. They're guidelines, one part of how someone is wired, and a useful place to start. In this episode: Why...

When the Work Isn't What You Pictured

2026-10-0809:59

It's the kickoff call for a six-week launch, and the project lead tells the team, "Take it wherever you think is best." One teammate is thrilled, one waits for a slide that never comes, and one notices her team isn't on the list. In this episode, Leslie Ferry goes back to the beginning of the project from "Recognition Looks Different to Everyone" to explore what motivates people before the work even begins. Recognition comes after the work, and most motivators show up in how a project is set ...

Recognition Looks Different to Everyone

2026-10-0611:30

A project lead gives a teammate a big public shout-out for catching an error that saved a launch, and the teammate calls it a team effort and goes quiet. In this episode, Leslie Ferry explores why the same recognition can energize one person and leave another uncomfortable, and what that reveals about the Wiring Gap, the distance between how we intend to show up and how others experience us through their own wiring. In the Upsurge Era, recognizing someone's contribution in a way that motivate...

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