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Human-centered insights and strategic clarity. By Rebecca Johnson, comms and fundraising exec turned leadership coach, helping leaders build cultures that can actually keep the promises they make. Now at Story Solutions.

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  1. Issue · Sep 10, 2026

    Help Your Middle Managers Be Better—Jellyfish? (opens the original)

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    Today, you’re getting the second article in a guest-post exchange between Leadership Field Notes and The Mode/Switch.This one’s coming to you from my colleague Craig, tackling why your middle managers aren’t telling you the truth. In the previous edition

  2. Issue · Jul 30, 2026

    Why Your Best People Downplay Their Wins (opens the original)

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    Between my longer-form essays, I highlight articles and ideas that offer insight into how human behavior adapts within systems. Here are a few pieces that have held my attention recently.On the Downplay: A Leadership Shift“Who wants to be celebrated for doing a bigger lift this week?”That question came from the instructor in a weight training class I’m taking this summer. She also happens to be a first-grade teacher. I couldn’t help but think she asks something similar of her six-year-old studen

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