Eric Bevill
STOP WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO NOTICE YOUR CAREER
Waiting for career growth gets you nowhere. Learn why self-advocacy beats hoping someone notices your work, with research-backed strategies that actually w
Read moreTEAM BUILDING BEYOND TRUST FALLS AND PIZZA PARTIES
Most team building efforts fail because they focus on activities instead of systems. Here's how psychological safety, strategic hiring, and real feedback a
Read moreSprint Retrospectives: Why Most Waste Time & What Works
Most sprint retrospectives accomplish nothing. Research shows 74% of teams repeat the same issues. Here's what effective retrospectives actually look like.
Read moreGreat Engineers Deserve Better Than an Accidental Management Role
Leadership · Engineering · Management PROMOTING YOURBEST ENGINEERIS OFTEN ALEADERSHIPMISTAKE. Great engineers don’t automatically become great leaders. The skills that […]
Read moreWhy 69% of Google Searches Now Skip Your Website Entirely
AI Search · Digital Marketing · The real numbers WHY 69%OF GOOGLESEARCHES NOWSKIP YOURWEBSITE. 69% of Google searches now end […]
Read moreRemarkable Leaders Know AI Burnout Has Nothing to Do With AI
The headlines say AI is burning your people out. The data says AI is delivering real productivity gains. Both are […]
Read moreHow to Protect Your Leadership Pipeline From AI Cuts
And the executives cheering the loudest are usually the ones who should go first. Let me be upfront about something […]
Read moreThe Brutal Boot Camp Lessons That Made Me a Better Leader
It’s February. Great Lakes, Illinois, which, if you’re not familiar, is the kind of cold that doesn’t just make you […]
Read moreThe Truth About Servant Leadership
My job title says leader. My actual job is to serve. This isn’t a typo or a motivational phrase. It’s […]
Read moreProduct Managers Just Got More Important With AI
Boris Cherny runs 5 AI agents in parallel and ships like a 10-person engineering team. So naturally, LinkedIn is flooded […]
Read moreThe Truth About Agile Nobody Admits
February 11-13, 2001. Snowbird, Utah. The Lodge at Snowbird ski resort, specifically the Aspen Room. Seventeen software developers showed up. […]
Read moreWhy Mixing Generations Creates Better Solutions
I hire interns. Not because I need cheap labor. Not because HR has a quota to fill. Because I get […]
Read moreWhy Predictable Leaders Build Better Teams
You walk into the Monday morning meeting. Someone brings up a problem that should’ve been caught last week. Your jaw […]
Read moreThe Dangerous Thing Most Teams Do After a Big Win
You just shipped the project. Six months of work. Late nights. Weekend sprints. Cross-functional chaos that somehow came together at […]
Read moreYour Team Is Copying You Right Now (And You Have No Idea)
Look, I’m just gonna say it: you’re teaching your team something every single day, and most of the time you […]
Read moreHow Great Leaders Build Teams That Think
The leadership trap nobody warns you about We all want that team, the one that actually thinks for itself, that […]
Read moreHeroes Make Your Team Weaker Not Stronger
Every organization has a hero. You know the one. The person everyone calls when things break. The one who stays […]
Read moreAgile Died When We Made It Easy
I accepted this ten years ago. I watched companies slap “Agile” on their waterfall processes and call it transformation. I […]
Read moreThe Truth About Leadership Development Programs
There’s a strange paradox in modern business. In 2022, American companies spent an estimated $165 billion on leadership development solutions, […]
Read moreWhy I’m Starting This Blog: Unfiltered Insights on Leadership and Life (And What You’re Getting Into)
I closing in on finishing a book, Beyond Management: A Field Manual for Real Leadership, which took hundreds of hours […]
Read moreI learned leadership in places where mistakes had consequences. Started in the military during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Spent nearly two decades rebuilding teams, stabilizing programs, and working across cultures where clarity and trust determined success or failure.
I don’t do theory. Everything I write comes from real situations. What worked, what failed spectacularly, and what I learned when integrity mattered more than comfort.
This blog isn’t about giving you a framework or selling you a course. It’s honest writing about leadership, product management, career struggles, being a father, and whatever else I’m wrestling with that week.
If you want polished corporate speak, this isn’t your spot. But if you want real talk from someone who’s been in the arena and has the scars to prove it, stick around.
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STOP WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO NOTICE YOUR CAREER
Waiting for career growth gets you nowhere. Learn why self-advocacy beats hoping someone notices your work, with research-backed strategies that actually w
-
TEAM BUILDING BEYOND TRUST FALLS AND PIZZA PARTIES
Most team building efforts fail because they focus on activities instead of systems. Here’s how psychological safety, strategic hiring, and real feedback a
-
Sprint Retrospectives: Why Most Waste Time & What Works
Most sprint retrospectives accomplish nothing. Research shows 74% of teams repeat the same issues. Here’s what effective retrospectives actually look like.
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Great Engineers Deserve Better Than an Accidental Management Role
Leadership · Engineering · Management PROMOTING YOURBEST ENGINEERIS OFTEN ALEADERSHIPMISTAKE. Great engineers don’t automatically become great leaders. The skills that […]
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Why 69% of Google Searches Now Skip Your Website Entirely
AI Search · Digital Marketing · The real numbers WHY 69%OF GOOGLESEARCHES NOWSKIP YOURWEBSITE. 69% of Google searches now end […]
-
Remarkable Leaders Know AI Burnout Has Nothing to Do With AI
The headlines say AI is burning your people out. The data says AI is delivering real productivity gains. Both are […]
-
How to Protect Your Leadership Pipeline From AI Cuts
And the executives cheering the loudest are usually the ones who should go first. Let me be upfront about something […]
-
The Brutal Boot Camp Lessons That Made Me a Better Leader
It’s February. Great Lakes, Illinois, which, if you’re not familiar, is the kind of cold that doesn’t just make you […]
-
Product Managers Just Got More Important With AI
Boris Cherny runs 5 AI agents in parallel and ships like a 10-person engineering team. So naturally, LinkedIn is flooded […]