July 2025

Meet P. V., 52, executive assistant to the Global VP at NexxMedica, a pharmaceutical company where half the managers think “AI transformation” means asking ChatGPT for presentation titles. She’s been with the company for 19 years.She knows who signs late, who fakes sick, and which senior leaders are brilliant—on paper. P. V. doesn’t say much.She […]

Meet Ava Steele. She is 29 years old, holds a Top Tier MBA, is vegan-ish, and has just been appointed as a first-time manager at a blazing-hot Silicon Valley startup called Unicornify.AI. because of course it is called that. She wore chunky sneakers and quoted Brené Brown in investor meetings. Ava had swagger, spreadsheets, and