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15 Oct 2026
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Nancy Duarte — holds since 2026-10-15 — tap for who they are
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14 Oct 2026
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Ada Chen Rekhi — holds since 2026-10-14 — tap for who they are
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11 Aug 2026
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Nancy Duarte — holds since 2026-08-11 — tap for who they are
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4 Mar 2024
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Ian McAllister — holds since 2024-03-04 — tap for who they are
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25 Oct 2006
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Joel Spolsky — holds since 2006-10-25 — tap for who they are
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1 Apr 2026
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Thuan Pham — holds since 2026-04-01 — tap for who they are
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9 May 2025
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John Siracusa — holds since 2025-05-09 — tap for who they are
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6 Mar 2025
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Kapil Gupta — holds since 2025-03-06 — tap for who they are
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M.G. Siegler — holds since 2026-09-24 — tap for who they are
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Ed Bayes — holds since 2026-09-09 — tap for who they are
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12 May 2025
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17 Dec 2024
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28 Oct 2011
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Patrick McKenzie — holds since 2011-10-28 — tap for who they are
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Camille Fournier — holds since 2025-05-28 — tap for who they are
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15 Sept 2026
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Chris Coyier — holds since 2026-09-15 — tap for who they are
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29 Sept 2018
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Tren Griffin — holds since 2018-09-29 — tap for who they are
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17 Feb 2024
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A leader announcing a change should show the team the thinking that led to it before pressing urgency.
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Most team members want more direction and feedback from their leaders, not less.
Holds
Change initiatives usually lose steam because leaders stop retelling the story, not because the team does not get it.
Holds
When escalating, tell your leader exactly what you want them to do.
Holds
When a candidate describes a team project, the interviewer should look for signs that they took a leadership role.
Holds
A technical leader should let engineers find the flaw in their own design through leading questions rather than announce it, because a discovered flaw is acted on and a reported one is argued with.
Holds
Good leaders change their minds in response to new information.
Holds
A leader can force people's behaviour to change, but not their thinking.
Holds
A $1,299, 100-gram pair of slip-on glasses seems far more enticing than a $3,699, 700-gram headset strapped to the face.
Holds
A baby-step version of eval-driven design is to sketch out 10 to 20 hero flows and run the feature or interaction through them to see where it falls apart.
Holds
A blank chat box is lazy: it violates the first rule of a good user experience, that it is obvious what you can do.
Holds
"Hire great people and get out of their way" is dangerous advice for anyone in a leadership role.
Holds
A career goes better attached to the part of a business that brings the money in than to a cost centre, whatever the work itself is.
Holds
A career ladder must not be a checklist that guarantees promotion, because a promotion depends on the organisation’s needs as much as on the employee’s skills.
Holds
A browser works better as a single window than as multiple separate windows.
Holds
A business is more likely to fail from taking on too much complexity than from lacking resources.
Holds
A business succeeds through a small number of highly effective distribution channels, not many mediocre ones.
Holds