If you're not willing to fight for your team,

you're not their leader - you're just another obstacle.

Real leadership means removing barriers,
not creating them.

I learned this the hard way at IBM when I lost my best developer because I didn't shield him from the organizational chaos above.

Protect your people so they can do their best work:

1. Stop Meeting Madness
↳ 30 hours of meetings per week = 0 hours of real work

2. Filter Every 'ASAP'
↳ Question urgent requests - many are fake emergencies

3. Prevent Burnout
↳ Exhausted teams create mistakes, not magic

4. Shield from Office Politics
↳ Absorb organizational chaos so your team can focus

5. Push Back on Deadlines
↳ Negotiate realistic timelines upfront. Never accept overtime as the default

6. Require Priority Trade-offs
↳ Make stakeholders choose what stops when they add new work

7. Eliminate Useless Work
↳ Cut low-value tasks such as creating reports that nobody reads

8. Protect Deep Work
↳ Create distraction-free times and keep "quick requests" from destroying focus time

9. Cut Through Bureaucracy
↳ Push back on approvals and processes that slow your team down

10. Amplify Their Wins
↳ CC their achievements to skip-level managers. Make their success impossible to ignore

Your team doesn't need another manager.

They need a leader who truly has their back.

Be that leader.

PS: What's one thing you wish more leaders did for their teams?

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Billionaires used to have all the leverage.

Things have changed.

Money bought them armies of assistants.

But today?

You have AI.
Same 24 hours. Infinitely more power.

Start your day drowning in tasks?
End it swimming in possibilities.

Slack. Notion. Email. Meetings.
These aren't just tools anymore.
They're opportunities for automation.

Think like a billionaire:

They don't just do the work.
They build systems that do the work.

That's where AI becomes your competitive edge.

Not just for basic tasks like fixing typos.
But for building entire systems of leverage:

Turn complex projects into daily action steps
Transform chaos into structured weekly plans
Create automation that multiplies your impact

Start here:

1/ Pomodoro Technique
↳ Work in 25-minute sprints with short breaks.
↳ Great when your brain is fried and focus feels impossible.

2/ Eisenhower Matrix
↳ Sort every task into: urgent, not urgent, important, not important.
↳ Perfect when everything feels “top priority”.

3/ Pareto Principle (80/20 Rule)
↳ Figure out which 20% of your work drives 80% of the outcome.
↳ Then stop doing the rest.

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These aren’t just hacks.
They’re systems.

AI can help you build them - fast.
Start with one framework.

Watch how everything shifts.

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