MeaningLabs is the applied research and design lab of Pathways, publishing field notes, essays, preprints and evaluation reports on how people and organizations change. Recent issues examine why leadership development gains decay over time, why leaders with the most influence benefit least, and how skills, competencies and capacities differ in an AI-shaped future of work.
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Essays on leadership, governance and organisational judgement, grounded in Australian case law, survey data and political philosophy such as Burke. Readers get structured arguments with practical recommendations, plus occasional guest interviews on management methods.
Essays on product management, organizational dynamics and workplace culture, written from long experience in cross-functional product development. Each issue examines a concept such as feature factories, causal reasoning or what workplaces can promise, and offers reflective, practical framing.
Michael Lopp (Rands) writes personal, reflective essays on leadership, writing, and a career in tech. Issues combine anecdotes from his time at companies like Pinterest and Riot Games with lessons on creating, speaking, and managing people.
Steve Magness, a performance coach and author, writes about how people sustain excellence in sport, work and life, drawing on coaching experience and psychology and physiology research. Issues pair concrete stories and coaching principles with practical takeaways on motivation, mindset and technology's effect on performance.
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