Rhetorical AI

What Should Our Kids Do Now?

Parents with college-age or post-college kids are all asking a version of the same question these days. It isn’t “What should my kid major in?” anymore. It’s something

By Jack Skeels

/ 23 Nov 2025

Rhetorical AI

Rhetorical AI and the Age of the Talking Machine

How Fluency Without Understanding Is Reshaping Work, Organizations, and Industry. Managers are confronting a problem unlike anything they have seen. Today’s AI systems are not intelligent in the human

By Jack Skeels

/ 18 Nov 2025

Agency-Life

Be grateful for those "messy" client relationships

By Jack Skeels

/ 18 Nov 2025

Be grateful for those "messy" client relationships

Rhetorical AI

AI will make us better… Liars

By Jack Skeels

/ 2 Aug 2025

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Theory X and Theory Y Management

In the 1950s, a distinction was made between the underlying beliefs about workers – Theory X and Theory Y. Depending on which you believe, it would influence your behavior as a

By Jack Skeels

/ 21 Nov 2025

The Art of The Lazy Manager

Lazy gets a bad rap. Managing and managers can be costly to your organization’s productivity (listen to episode 2.1, The Natural Tax of Managing) and in fact less

By Jack Skeels

/ 21 Nov 2025

King Kong, please sit down and wait your turn

Can you be a better manager by stepping back and letting teams manage themselves? As strange as this may sound, the answer is yes. Often managers stop all over the

By Jack Skeels

/ 21 Nov 2025

Your Meeting Sucks

The answer is a pretty-much unqualified “yes.” Does it need to be that way? Of course not, but it is not easy. Meetings were horrible prior to 2020, and though

By Jack Skeels

/ 21 Nov 2025

I Hate your Stupid Meeting

Many meetings are like unpleasant dinner guests who have come uninvited. They intrude on your productive time, drone on with unnecessary conversation, and you can’t wait for them to

By Jack Skeels

/ 21 Nov 2025

The Making of Unmanaged, the Book.

You know less about managing than you think. These misperceptions and fallacies include theidea that managing creates productivity, that managers can solve everything, that more managing equals better managing, and

By Jack Skeels

/ 21 Nov 2025

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