Brian Fink

4 days ago | thebrianfink.medium.com | Brian Fink

Leadership isn’t about being the smartest guy in the room. Or the most charismatic. Or the loudest. It’s about knowing who the hell you are — and who you’re not. It’s about self-awareness. The most underutilized, underestimated, and underdeveloped leadership skill out there. Self-awareness isn’t woo-woo. It’s lethal. It’s the difference between becoming a transformative leader… and becoming a cautionary tale. It’s the muscle that helps you course-correct before the market slaps you.

6 days ago | thebrianfink.medium.com | Brian Fink

We’ve been sold a lie — the Hollywood Alpha. The leader who always knows. Always wins. Always walks in with a whiteboard marker and a 10-point plan that saves the day. You know, the Steve Jobs-wannabe with the turtle-necked bravado and a God complex. Spoiler alert: That person doesn’t exist. Or if they do, they’re either delusional or on their third round of layoffs. The truth? Most leaders are guessing — intelligent guesses, yes — but guesses nonetheless.

1 week ago | thebrianfink.medium.com | Brian Fink

Let me be blunt. AI is here. It’s not coming. It’s not lurking in a research lab. It’s not sleeping in some server farm waiting for sentience. It’s awake. It’s working. And it’s already outperforming you at most things that don’t involve human touch, judgment, and the messy, beautiful chaos of leadership. That’s right. If your job can be turned into a prompt, it’s already on the chopping block. But if you can lead? If you can rally people, drive decisions, build trust, and make others better?

1 week ago | thebrianfink.medium.com | Brian Fink

Let me cut through the buzzwords and bullshit: if you’re worried about AI taking your job, you should be. Because it is. AI isn’t coming for your job. It’s already here, sipping your morning coffee, rewriting your emails, and outperforming your middle-manager energy with 10 lines of Python and a killer API. But here’s the plot twist nobody wants to tell you: AI can replace workers. It can replace functions. But what it can’t replace — not yet, not even close — is creators. Creators don’t get replaced.

1 week ago | thebrianfink.medium.com | Brian Fink

Here’s the reality: modern leaders are held to higher standards than ever before — and rightly so. But somewhere between TikTok reels and TED Talks, we’ve confused influence with impact. We’ve mistaken followers for leadership. We’ve handed out microphones and called it authority. Let me be clear: having a platform is not the same as having a backbone. We’ve got CEOs posting “leadership lessons” on Instagram while dodging union negotiations like it’s a dodgeball tournament.