Forcing people who work for you to give you and others presents is unethical. Appeal to your colleague's better instincts as an educator and discourage this practice immediately. As you are a colleague and not a subordinate, you are in a position to be able to appeal to this person's sense of equity.
My first boss told me, "Don't make the client's problem your problem." I think about that a lot. Come early to work. Gives you time to settle in for the day. Every morning, skim your calendar for the week. Once a week, check your calendar for the month. Double-check all your events and deadlines are properly calendared. The cases are yours, not your legal assistant's.
AI can now schedule meetings, summarize calls, draft emails, and write serviceable first drafts. That's not the threat. The threat is what it reveals. If your value as a manager lives mostly in tasks, AI will eat it. If your value lives in people- coaching, clarity, and meaning-AI becomes your time-maker. The task trap (and why AI breaks it) For years, many managers equated "being indispensable" with staying busy: approving requests, forwarding documents, chasing status updates, taking notes, and nudging people about deadlines.
We received requests for this from Sales, Marketing, and customer surveys - after all, every B2B or B2C company needs its own mobile app, right? But I walked away from the research feeling shaken. The people we interviewed were excited about the app concept - not because it would decrease their workload or simplify anything, but because they could use it to work more.
The project was designed to train the company's AI model to "recognize and analyze facial movements and expressions, such as how people talk, react to others' conversations, and express themselves in various conditions."
Astronomer is committed to the values and culture that have guided us since our founding. Our leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability, and recently, that standard was not met.
