Chief of Staff

The Waiting Is Over, Tomorrow Is the Day

The CoS Costume Party is Frightening For All The Wrong Reasons

Six Getups I'd Confiscate at the Door

The Wrong Room

Judgement Is the One Thing a Leader Cannot Delegate, and the First Thing Most Organisations Are Built to Help Them Avoid

Dishwashers Come With Manuals. Chiefs of Staff Don’t. Until Now.

We've Never Been in the Same Room

Six Months In: Who We Are, Why We Do This, and the New York Stage Where We Finally Meet

Your Chief of Staff Has a Leo McGarry Problem

The Mystique Is Real. The Job Is Not.

Promoted to Nothing in Particular

Nine seasons of Donna, on Suits, reading the room better than anyone, and the writers still could not name her job. Sound familiar?

Unvisited Tombs

You won't be there to read it.

The 90-Day Fiction

Nobody gets good at this job in 90 days.

The $400,000 Body Double and Defining the Chief of Staff Role

First Round in 2017, Bloomberg last week, Korn Ferry this month. Three takes on the Chief of Staff, and between them exactly one idea worth keeping. Let's sort the wreckage.

Killing the CoS Job Description, One Vague Word at a Time

We built a (pretty remarkable) tool that refuses to write a bad Chief of Staff job description. Also: Ask Us Anything, tonight.

The Shrinking, and What It Was Actually For

The discomfort in the room and the truth of what you said are two different things. They always were.

Your AI Strategy Has a Carmela Soprano Problem

You hired the title. Nobody designed the role. Your Chief of Staff is quietly paying the bill.