The Chronicles of a High-EQ Leader

Your Team Is Capable So... Why Does Everything Still Need You?

FITS, Part 1: Find the Dependency

Sep 8 • Djordje Mladenovic

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August 2026

Why do we take on so much work?

Who told us to do so?

Aug 18 • Djordje Mladenovic

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The Leadership Dependency Loop

How it starts, why both leaders and teams maintain it, and what it takes to escape it permanently.

Aug 4 • Djordje Mladenovic

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July 2026

Layoffs Are Making Bad Leaders Look Better

When fear looks like alignment, silence looks like trust, and compliance gets mistaken for leadership.

Jul 21 • Djordje Mladenovic

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Can You Lead Engineers Without Knowing Their Tech Stack?

Following up on the LinkedIn post that reached 110K+ impressions.

Jul 14 • Djordje Mladenovic

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June 2026

The best leaders can’t answer “What’s your leadership style?”

The question I stopped trying to answer

Jun 30 • Djordje Mladenovic

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Thinking Fast, Leading Slow

What Daniel Kahneman Can Teach Modern Leaders

Jun 9 • Djordje Mladenovic

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May 2026

Will AI Kill Engineering Management?

Or Finally Expose What Was Never Leadership?

May 26 • Djordje Mladenovic

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Why Intelligent Leaders Become Emotionally Primitive Under Pressure

Most leaders say they want honest feedback.

May 19 • Djordje Mladenovic

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You Gave the Feedback Calmly. So Why Did It Still Go Wrong?

Most leaders eventually run into the same frustrating moment.

May 12 • Djordje Mladenovic

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April 2026

You Are Not Your Job

(And AI Is Making That Truth Impossible to Ignore)

Apr 28 • Djordje Mladenovic

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AI Is Speeding Up Your Decisions. It’s Also Scaling Your Misjudgments.

We like to believe we see people clearly.

Apr 21 • Djordje Mladenovic

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