The psychologist behind a new study confirming the link between dumb jargon and dumb decisions explains how to fight corporate BS.

A conversation with psychologist Ron Friedman about the secrets to team success.

I saw a post by Professor Rob Briner about the enigma of psychological safety, and in the replies it was discussed that in fact PS isn’t so much an enigma, there’s evidence that it is t…

This is Johanna Rothman’s April 2026 Pragmatic Manager Newsletter. The Unsubscribe link is at the bottom of this newsletter. During a recent conference, I was on a panel with some really smart colleagues. One of the first audience questions was, “What's your most valuable management tool?” Some of the other panelists mentioned how they use […]

(This is an updated version of a post I first wrote in 2017. Given everything happening in tech today, it felt worth dusting off.)

Featured in The New York Times, Forbes, and the BBC, Corporate Rebels gives you the tools to break the rules, boost performance, and build something better.

A practical guide for staff engineers and tech leads on identifying, confronting, and paying down operational debt.

Workplace chaos can’t be eliminated, but leaders can take steps to help themselves and their teams better manage it.

Often when I help a company roll out OKRs, the same thing happens. We set the company objective, we craft key results, everyone’s excited. And then someone raises their hand. “What abou…

Organizations struggle with AI because they never redesigned how decisions get made. Here's what that AI decision architecture looks like.