Low trust doesn’t just damage relationships. It creates friction, slows execution, and pulls senior leaders into decisions and problems their teams could often handle themselves. Here’s what the hidden tax of low trust looks like in a growing company — and what to watch for in yours.

Many years ago, I was finishing a master's degree in counseling and picking up bartending shifts to pay the rent. One Mother's Day morning in Atlanta, something unexpected happened — and it taught me more about what it means to help someone than anything I learned in graduate school.

We talk about attention as something to optimize, hack, or reclaim—but what if that’s the wrong idea?