Episode Details

A McKinsey partner went on LinkedIn to announce that the “glass cliff” isn’t real. He kept his job and lost his leadership role. He’ll also have that post as his top Google result for the rest of his life. Peter and Laura explain why LinkedIn is the one platform where your hot takes come with your employer’s logo attached. They also suggest what he should have done, which was host the authors for an internal company event, not a public pile-on.

Speaking of lunch: Ancestry’s CEO says the best leadership move is eating with your employees wherever they actually eat. That means the break room, not the executive dining room. We agree, mostly. Laura has a frequency note, and both hosts have NYC cafeteria stories, including some Gayle King salad-bar diplomacy.

Then there’s Kimberly Guilfoyle, now the former ambassador to Greece, after Wall Street Journal reporting on wealthy businessmen allegedly covering her Amex bills, flights and a trip to Davos. The career lessons are not complicated. Don’t embarrass your boss. Don’t assume something is fine because everyone around you is doing it. And for the love of God, don’t put it in an email.

Colts owner Carlie Irsay-Gordon is wearing a headset on the sideline and taking frantic notes on every play. Is she an engaged leader, a distraction, or a woman being held to a different standard? Peter and Laura disagree. Plus: evaluation apprehension, and Laura’s blood pressure.

Some AI companies want to buy your company’s Slack history for training data. Peter walks through why that is a confidentiality nightmare for employers. It also hands employees a great counterargument the next time a company tries to enforce a non-compete. A listener asks whether her son should keep his fraternity leadership role on his résumé after the Cornell incident.

Your weekly drink with a lawyer and a journalist.

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