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The Bosshole® Chronicles
The Bosshole® Chronicles
Latest Episodes
An Ode to Robal
Nobody tells you the hardest part of becoming a manager: the job changes overnight, but your skill set doesn’t. I rewind to the early 1990s, when I stepped out of individual contributor sales and into leading sales and marketing with almost no ...
Mark Ostach - The Gift of Connection
Your attention isn’t just getting interrupted, it’s getting retrained. We sit down with digital wellness guide and speaker Mark Ostach to unpack why so many of us feel rushed, reactive, and oddly disconnected even when we’re “caught up.” Mark j...
Letters from Fred - Bosshole® Zero
A dusty box in the basement turns into a full-on leadership time machine. I stumble onto a stack of handwritten memos from my old manager “Fred,” the same boss from our early “Don’t Bring Him Back” story, and reading them instantly brings back ...
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When Promoting from Within Doesn't Work
“We only promote from within” sounds like a values-driven promise, but what happens when that promise puts the wrong person in a critical seat? John Broer and Karen Shulman dig into the uncomfortable reality: internal promotions can fail, somet...
How America Spoke About Sacrifice And Freedom
Memorial Day asks for more than a moment of silence, so we take a different path this week and sit with the words Americans once used when the stakes were life and death. I’m recording on Memorial Day weekend, thinking about the more than 1.3 m...
