Here is a collection of interesting items, articles, and learnings that I have recently found valuable:

📌 Leadership Minute: How To Set and Hit Your 2025 Goals – (produced by Robert Glazer)
Robert Glazer shares key strategies for achieving 2025 goals through focused goal-setting, visualization, and alignment, using tools like the Whole Life Dashboard and Goal Ladder to stay on track and build meaningful connections.

📌 AI Killed the Tech Interview. Now What? 
Kane Narraway published an analysis of how AI has impacted technical interviewing processes. The article examines how tools like GitHub Copilot and large language models have rendered traditional coding assessments less effective, and discusses potential new approaches to evaluating candidates. Narraway suggests longer interviews that assess both architectural thinking and ability to work effectively with AI tools.

This article is particularly relevant for hiring managers, tech recruiters, engineering leads, and job seekers in the software development field who are navigating interviews in 2025.

📌 The Go-Giver Book 
The Go-Giver Book delivers essential leadership principles through its Five Laws of Stratospheric Success, showing how focusing on creating value for others leads to both personal fulfillment and business profitability. This book, written in 2008, is practically required reading for all StartupExperts members, and it's worth mentioning that it's complemented by extensive online resources including podcasts, daily emails, and courses that help leaders implement these powerful concepts in practical ways. 

And People. . .

Melanie Naranjo is simply amazing - her brilliant mind and wonderful sense of humor makes every interaction with her memorable. As a StartupExperts member, we're very excited to have her representing our community at our Panel Discussion at Transform. Every time I see her at an event, she never fails to make me laugh, and I love that she brings her dog along - it perfectly captures her authentic approach to both work and life. You should definitely follow her on LinkedIn and elsewhere to keep up with her insightful perspectives and infectious energy.

Andrew Bartlow, author of "Scaling for Success" and cofounder of the People Leader Accelerator, has an incredible gift for simplifying complex leadership challenges into quotable insights. I've had the opportunity to interview him likely a dozen times, and each conversation reinforces why he's worth following—his wisdom has genuinely transformed my leadership approach. He also served on the StartupExperts Exec team several years ago as our VP of Strategy and I honestly don't think we'd be where we are now without his guidance. If you're attending Transform, make connecting with Andrew a priority as you'll walk away with practical knowledge. If you won't be there, follow him on LinkedIn.