As the boss of the country’s media and telecom regulators, there’s plenty of corporate malfeasance and corrupt shenanigans Brendan Carr could be targeting on any given day at the country’s biggest media and telecom companies. But because Carr’s never been all that interested in the public interest, he’s once again spending his time trying to hurt a comedian who made fun of our unpopular president.
After an embarrassing failure at his attempt to censor Jimmy Kimmel for criticizing Donald Trump last year, Policyband notes that Carr is cooking up a new inquiry to ensnare Kimmel. This time, Carr is pretending he cares about financial conflict of interests, and is looking to “revisit” long‑standing conflict‑of‑interest rules for broadcasters (and Kimmel):
“A lot of people don’t know this, but there’s conflict‑of‑interest rules that apply to broadcasters, both personal financial, but also personal political,” he said. Carr — who had a blow up with Kimmel last September over the comic’s comments about Charlie Kirk’s assassination — did not mention Kimmel by name. But he really did not need to because of the existence of a conflict of interest complaint pending against the host of Jimmy Kimmel Live! (via an ABC station) at the FCC.”
It’s been abundantly clear that the Trump administration is one giant, lumbering financial conflict of interest, though obviously Carr’s not actually interested in any equal application of financial conflict of interest rules. Instead, he’s leveraging FCC rules to single out Kimmel and a $23,000 payment Kimmel made to Democrat Adam Schiff’s campaign a year before Schiff appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Trump’s friend Larry Ellison has already taken out one late night TV host, Stephen Colbert, who was abruptly fired by CBS. Now Trump continues to try and leverage his lapdog at the FCC to find new and creative ways to make life difficult for any remaining late night hosts, tramping the First Amendment at every and any opportunity.
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Carr is the same guy who recently (and illegally) ignored any remaining media consolidation limits to help his friends at right wing TV broadcasters merge, something only scuttled after court intervention. Whether it’s a conflict of interest inquiry, a free speech complaint, or cybersecurity “reforms,” absolutely nothing Carr does is in good faith; something our press struggles to make evident.
The exception has been outlets like Wired, which recently reported that a right wing activism group, the Center for American Rights (CAR), had direct access to Carr, bypassing all standard staff interactions. CAR was integral in helping Carr shape some of his hollow complaints against Kimmel and ABC in relation to his abuse of the antiquated FCC “equal time” rule.
With that bogus censorship effort thwarted, Carr has moved on to creatively crapping all over the First Amendment in equally creative, but likely equally fruitless ways.
In this episode, we sit down with Jordan Pries, owner of The Electric Kitsch record store in Bay City, Michigan and working musician (he wrote our podcast theme song!), for a clear eyed look at what it takes to survive and stay relevant through 14 years of industry shifts and the rise of Record Store Day.
From the early days of RSD to today’s global frenzy, Jordan breaks down what has changed, what has not, and what customers rarely see, including the financial realities, supply chain headaches, and the role RSD plays in keeping the lights on. We also explore how running a shop intersects with life as a musician, shaping how music is valued on both sides of the counter, and whether Record Store Day still delivers for the independent stores it was built to support or just makes for one very long Saturday.
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Sportswriting legend Red Smith once said that writing a column is easy: “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” In 2026, though, no blood is required. All you do is sit down at a laptop and have Claude or ChatGPT write the story for you.
That seems to be the takeaway from a cluster of reports from the journalistic front of late. Last month, my colleague Maxwell Zeff wrote about writers who unapologetically generate at least some of their prose via unbylined AI collaborators. The star of his piece was Alex Heath, a tech reporter who said he routinely has AI write drafts based on his notes, interview transcripts, and emails. That same week, The Wall Street Journal profiled Fortune reporter Nick Lichtenberg, who explained to the paper that he leans heavily on AI to churn out his work. He has written 600 stories since July; on one day this past February, he had seven bylines.
Ever since reading these reports—thankfully produced by the human hand—I have been having trouble sleeping. Until recently, the consensus had been that using large language models to actually create commercial prose was verboten. Many publications, including WIRED, have firm guidelines against AI-generated text. We don’t use it for editing, either, which is a less alarming, though still troublesome practice of several others cited in Zeff’s column. The book publishing world, trying to protect itself from an avalanche of self-published slop, is still policing its catalog; Hachette Book Group recently retracted a novel that had apparently relied too much on the output of an LLM. But as the models turn out prose that is becoming increasingly harder to distinguish from human outputs, the convenience and cost savings of using AI for the difficult job of writing are threatening to seep into the mainstream. The walls are starting to crumble.
As one might expect, a lot of people were unhappy to read about this development, particularly those like me whose keyboards are dripping with blood. But the subjects of the stories aren’t backing down. It’s as if they feel the future is on their side. When I contacted Heath—whose work I respect—he confirmed that he had gotten pushback but shrugged it off. “I see AI as a tool,” he says. “I don’t see it as replacing anything— the only thing that’s replaced is drudgery that I didn’t want to do anyway.”
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Of course, the hard work of writing is, for people like me, a critical aspect of the whole effort, bringing one’s self to the task of communicating effectively and clearly. Heath thinks that he does connect with readers through his writing—he says that he has trained his AI to sound like him, and his Substack includes personally written tidbits about what he’s up to. On the other hand, he tells me that since he talked to Zeff, he has almost “one-shotted” a couple of his columns. “When I say one-shot, I mean I almost didn’t need to do anything,” he says. But Heath disputes the idea that letting AI write prose for him means that he’s bypassed the thinking process that many believe can only happen though actual writing. “I’m just getting rid of that very messy, painful, zero-to-one blank page,” he says.
The Fortune writer who was the subject of the Journal article also has suffered repercussions, not just from the public but also his friends and colleagues. “I’m feeling a strain in close and personal relationships,” Lichtenberg admitted in an interview with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. In an email, Fortune’s editor in chief, Alyson Shontell, tried to steer me away from the idea that AI was taking over the jobs of reporters under her watch. “Importantly, [Lichtenberg] is not using it as a writing replacement,” she wrote. “His stories are ai assisted versus ai written. Still lots of ambitious reporting and analysis and reworking he is doing that’s highly original.”
The 2026 GeekWire Awards finalists for Young Entrepreneur of the Year, clockwise from top left: Kavian Mojabe (MediScan AI); Zheqing (Bill) Zhu (Pokee AI); Caleb John (Pioneer Square Labs); Charles Wu (Orchard Robotics); and Emily Choi-Greene (Clearly AI).
From farm robots to cybersecurity to AI-powered medical records, the 2026 GeekWire Awards Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalists represent some of the ambitious bets being made in the Pacific Northwest startup scene.
The finalists in this category, presented by Prime Team Partners, are: Emily Choi-Greene (Clearly AI); Caleb John (Pioneer Square Labs); Kavian Mojabe (MediScan AI); Charles Wu (Orchard Robotics); and Zheqing (Bill) Zhu (Pokee AI).
Now in its 18th year, the GeekWire Awards is the premier event recognizing the top leaders, companies and breakthroughs in Pacific Northwest tech, bringing together hundreds of people to celebrate innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit. It takes place May 7 at the Showbox SoDo in Seattle.
Continue reading for information on the Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalists, who were chosen by a panel of independent judges from community nominations. You can help pick the winner: Cast your ballot here or in the embedded form at the bottom. Voting runs through April 16.
Emily Choi-Greene is co-founder and CEO of Clearly AI, a cybersecurity startup that helps security, privacy, and compliance teams review new products, features, vendors, and AI deployments before they ship.
Less than two years after launching, Clearly AI raised an $8.4 million seed round. The company was also named one of 10 finalists in the RSAC 2026 Innovation Sandbox Contest, a high-profile competition tied to the RSA Conference, a major event for the cybersecurity industry. Choi-Greene previously worked on natural language understanding for Amazon’s Alexa and later on device security teams at the tech giant.
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Caleb John is an engineer and investor at Pioneer Square Labs, the Seattle-based startup studio and venture fund.
John’s previous experience spans robotics, AI, and defense tech. He co-founded the AI search ranking startup Pongo (acquired by M87 Labs) and founded Cedar Robotics, which built robot waiters for restaurants. He also contributed to national security AI at Anduril Industries and was recognized on the Forbes Under 30 Seattle list in 2023.
Kavian Mojabe is co-founder and CEO of MediScan AI, a Seattle startup using AI to help medical professionals evaluate patient records.
Launched in 2024, MediScan AI raised $1.4 million in funding last June. Its platform can quickly scan records — including typed and hand-written notes — and generate summaries and comprehensive reports, reducing the time it takes human evaluators to perform such tasks. The startup has positioned itself at the intersection of medicine, insurance and legal industries. Mojabe was previously a software engineer at Amazon.
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Charles Wu is founder and CEO of Orchard Robotics, an agtech startup using AI to deliver precise data on farm operations.
Wu is a Thiel Fellow who dropped out of Cornell University to launch Orchard Robotics. The startup, which raised $22 million in Series A funding last September, has developed a system with cameras that are mounted on tractors and other equipment to gather images as they traverse a farm. The collected images are then analyzed by Orchard Robotics’ AI to generate data on vines, trees and crops, which is then processed to track the growth, yield and health of crops.
Zheqing (Bill) Zhu is founder and CEO of Pokee AI, a Seattle-area startup building AI agents that automate online workflows.
Pokee, which raised a $12 million seed round last July, differentiates itself by applying reinforcement learning to help agents sequence and use tools efficiently, rather than relying solely on large language models. Zhu was previously head of applied reinforcement learning at Meta, where he worked for more than seven years. He completed his Ph.D. at Stanford in the same field and did his graduate and undergrad studies at Duke.
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Geely, the Chinese auto giant that also owns Volvo, has just unveiled a new RV that really does not look like it belongs anywhere near the budget end of the market.
The company has just kicked off the presales in China for the Galaxy Starshine 7, with its pricing starting at 112,900 yuan or about $16,550. For that money, buyers get a midsize electric sedan with a sleek fastback silhouette, full-width lighting, a richly trimmed cabin, and even an available dual-motor all-wheel-drive setup that can hit 0 to 100 km/h in 5.4 seconds.
Why it looks too fancy for its price
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Cheap EVs are usually easy to spot because they cut corners somewhere obvious. But the Starshine 7 doesn’t exactly scream entry-level. The official images show a sedan with a clean nose design, sharp light signatures, flush door handles, a panoramic roof, and a cabin dominated by a large central screen and a bright, lounge-like color scheme for its interiors.
The model measures 4,930mm long with a 2,915mm wheelbase. In photos, it lands somewhere between a mainstream electric sedan and something trying very hard to look premium. And at a first glance, it mostly succeeds.
But do the specs keep up?
Geely’s Starshine 7 will be offered in rear-wheel-drive and all-wheel-drive forms. The RWD version uses a 190kW motor, while the AWD model adds a 150kW front motor for a combined 340kW output. The company is also offering two battery options, a 58.4kWh and 73.6kWh, with CLTC range figures of up to 610km depending on the variant.
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Inside, the car gets a 15.4-inch floating center display, which also showcases a premium interior. The pictures also depict wood-like trim, layered materials, and a generally softer look that isn’t often associated with a budget EV.
This model joins the recently announced $15,000 extended-range EV called the Boyue EREV SUV. So the Galaxy Starshine 7 is another reminder of just how aggressive China’s EV market has become. It is trying to make affordability look aspirational, which is a pretty different trick, and one that Western automakers still seem to struggle with. As always, there is no word regarding a US or European release.
Canva Offline Mode might be one of Create 2026’s unsung heroes
Learn Grid educational resources also available to all
Design and buy merch through the Print Shop
Canva AI 2.0 took the headlines at the company’s annual Create conference, but the announcements weren’t done as its co-founders introduced the hotly anticipated Canva Offline.
For the first time ever, the online-first tool now supports full offline editing with automatic syncing when connections are restored, which the company sees as pivotal for two distinct reasons.
Firstly, it gives travelling professionals extended access to their files whether they’re in the air, on a train or just in a signal not-spot. But secondly, the move aligns with Canva’s ‘democratizing design’ philosophy by improving accessibility in developing countries where reliable internet connections aren’t consistent.
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Canva Create’s ‘one more thing’ was actually three more things
At launch, users can select individual files and designs to download when they plan to go off the grid. It’s unclear whether an extended offline mode may follow, whereby users can start new projects from scratch, but understandably this would require potentially huge downloads and may not be feasible. TechRadar Pro has sought clarification from Canva.
In the same breath, the company also declared that its new education-focused, curriculum-mapped Learn Grid would be available to all users. Thousands of ready-made resources available in 16 languages, combined with the power to edit with AI, primarily target teachers, but by making it available to all, we can also see it being useful in community projects and extracurricular outreach programs.
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Finally, Canva has refined the Print Shop (previously Canva Print) – an end-to-end design, print and delivery platform that works entirely within Canva without users needing to download their designs and handle third-party tools.
House Speaker Mike Johnson convened a vote in the dead of night on Friday, calling lawmakers back to the floor after midnight in a push to preserve a surveillance program that allows federal agents to read the communications of Americans without a warrant. Twenty Republicans broke ranks and sank it, a sharp rebuke of both Johnson and President Donald Trump, who had spent the week personally working holdouts to back the bill.
The failed vote caps weeks of bipartisan resistance to a clean reauthorization of the surveillance program, authorized under Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The 702 program permits wiretaps of communications ostensibly belonging to foreigners overseas, but is also known to intercept vast amounts of Americans’ emails, texts, phone calls, and other data—private messages that the FBI and other agencies routinely access without a warrant.
Congressional authorization for the program will expire on Tuesday. The White House and GOP leadership have spent weeks pressing for a “clean” reauthorization, fending off a bipartisan alliance of House Freedom Caucus Republicans and progressive Democrats demanding, variously, that the FBI obtain warrants before searching Americans’ messages and that Congress ban the government from buying Americans’ personal data from commercial brokers.
A handful of Democrats led by Congressman Jim Himes of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, have joined the White House in lobbying against new restrictions.
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House Republicans revolted twice in the small hours of Friday morning, ultimately sinking the bill. Shortly after 1 am ET, a dozen Republicans joined nearly every Democrat to kill a leadership-backed amendment that would have extended Section 702 for five more years.
The amendment contained a provision that was in essence a fake warrant requirement. It would have prohibited government officers from “intentionally” targeting Americans’ communications without a warrant—conduct that is already banned by the statute. It also offered the government a warrant path if agents had probable cause to suspect the subject is an agent of a foreign power—an authority that already exists independent of the Section 702 program and adds functionally nothing new to the law.
The final blow came after 2 am, when the 20 Republicans voted again to block the original version of the bill, which seeks a shorter 18-month extension. Those 20 votes were drawn almost entirely from the House Freedom Caucus and the party’s libertarian wing, including Andy Harris of Maryland, the caucus chair; Thomas Massie of Kentucky; Chip Roy of Texas; Warren Davidson of Ohio; and Lauren Boebert of Colorado.
In a rare defeat on a procedural vote that typically passes along party lines, GOP leaders walked away with only a 10-day extension, pushing the fight to the end of the month. The House’s failure leaves the Senate to sort out what comes next, starting with whether to approve the extension next week.
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The vote’s collapse followed a week of hard effort by the Trump administration to assuage Republicans who’ve objected to the FBI’s warrantless access and its documented history of querying that data for political purposes. Trump hosted Freedom Caucus holdouts at the White House on Tuesday, trying to close the deal. Democrats, meanwhile, were briefed Monday by two former senior Biden officials urging them to back the extension, according to a person familiar with both events.
The FBI has used Section 702 data to run warrantless queries on a US senator, 19,000 donors to a congressional campaign, Black Lives Matter protesters, and both sides of the January 6 Capitol attack, according to declassified court rulings and government transparency reports.
Cisco tells Webex users to patch critical security flaws immediately, as experts find its Wi-Fi boxes may be filling their disks with undeletable data every day
Cisco patches four critical flaws in Webex Services, including SSO and Identity Services Engine RCE bugs
No exploitation reported before fixes; users must update SAML certificates in Control Hub
Separate IOS XE bug causes Wi‑Fi access points to bloat logs and fail updates, affecting 230+ models
Cisco has pushed a new patch to address four critical-severity vulnerabilities plaguing its cloud-based Webex Services platform – and has also warned Wi-Fi access points users of a bug in certain versions of IOS XE that could result in a device bootloop.
Webex Services is a platform for communication and collaboration, letting people hold video meetings, send messages, make calls, and share files, all from one place.
It was found vulnerable to four flaws: CVE-2026-20184 (9.8/10 – a vulnerability in the integration of single sign-on (SSO)), CVE-2026-20147 (9.9/10 – a remote code execution bug in Cisco ISE and Cisco ISE-PIC), CVE-2026-20180, and CVE-2026-20186 (9.9/10 arbitrary code execution flaws in Cisco Identity Services Engine).
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Apparently, no threat actors found these flaws before they were patched: “Prior to this vulnerability being addressed, an attacker could have exploited this vulnerability by connecting to a service endpoint and supplying a crafted token,” Cisco said in its security advisory.
“A successful exploit could have allowed the attacker to gain unauthorized access to legitimate Cisco Webex services.”
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While Cisco patched the flaws, it also stressed that those using SSO integration should upload a new SAML certificate for their identity provider (IdP) to Control Hub.
Bloating access points
At the same time, the company warned its access points users of a bug that could render their devices useless. In a separate advisory, Cisco said how “certain Cisco Access Points (APs) may fail to download new software images or Access Point Service Packs”, because an updated library in Cisco IOS XE generates a log file that grows by 5MB every day.
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The file, which cannot be deleted from the command line interface, will keep growing until there is no more room on the disk, essentially preventing any further updates to be installed on the device.
Versions 17.12.4, 17.12.5, 17.12.6, and 17.12.6a are affected, it was said. In total, more than 230 different models are at risk, Cisco said.
“The longer an AP runs the affected software, the higher the probability that a software download will fail due to insufficient disk space,” the advisory reads..
Users should, therefore, move to a version that doesn’t bloat the device, but it’s not as straightforward of a process. Cisco published a detailed guide, so if you’re using the company’s APs, make sure to read it here.
You probably don’t spend a lot of time using the FAT32 file system anymore, since it’s thoroughly been superseded many times over. Even so, Microsoft has seen fit to deliver an upgrade for FAT32 for the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview build. Finally, the stock Windows tools will let you format a FAT32 drive up to 2 TB instead of locking you to a 32 GB maximum!
The size limit was never baked into the FAT32 spec itself. With a 32-bit field for counting sectors, the file system supports up to 2 TB volumes with 512-byte sectors. However, as explained by former Microsoft developer [Dave Plummer], it just so happened that the 32 GB limit came about because of a random decision made when slapping together the Format dialogue box over 30 years ago.
The pending change was first announced in 2024, affecting the command line format tool as well. It’s actually been possible to create larger FAT32 volumes for some time, you just couldn’t easily do it with Microsoft’s standard formatting tools.
FAT32 is still a terrible file system to use in 2026, mostly because it has a hard limit on file size that tops out at 4 GB. It’ll ruin your life if you’re shooting HD or 4K video. We often don’t spend a lot of time musing over file systems in detail, but they’re right at the heart of everything we do on our computers on a daily basis. Sometimes, it bears thinking about!
TCL introduced its new flagship X11L SQD-Mini LED TV at CES 2026, and now a few months later, the company is ready to expand its lineup with more SQD-Mini LED models and its first RGB-Mini LED TV. All sizes of the TCL QM8L SQD-Mini LED TV are available now. Meanwhile, both the TCL QM7L SQD-Mini LED TVs and the RM9L RGB-Mini LED TVs are available to pre-order.
SQD-Mini LED panels are TCL’s latest iteration of its Mini LED display technology, where “SQD” stands for “Super Quantum Dot,” a layer of tiny crystal dots that help filter the light from the LEDs in the company’s panels. TCL claims its SQD-Mini LED screens are more color accurate than its previous models without losing out on HDR contrast. The TCL QM8L has an anti-reflective SQD-Mini LED panel, up to 4,000 discrete dimming zones, up to 6,000 nits of peak brightness and support for Dolby Vision 2 Max after a software update. The TCL QM7L also has an anti-reflective SQD-Mini LED panel, up to 2,100 discrete dimming zones, up to 3,000 nights of peak brightness and support for Dolby Vision IQ. Both TVs feature Audio by Bang & Olufsen and run the latest version of Google TV with support for Gemini.
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Like other TV makers at CES 2026, TCL also capitalized on the growing trend of Micro RGB or RGB Mini LED panels. Rather than use a layer of white or blue LEDs that are transformed with quantum dots and color filters, TCL’s RGB-Mini LED starts with discrete red, green and blue LEDs to produce richer color. The TCL RM9L features the company’s new RGB-Mini LED display with an anti-reflective layer, over 3,800 discrete local dimming zones, up to 6,000 nits of peak brightness and support for Dolby Vision 2 after a software update. The TV also features Bang & Olufsen audio and Google TV with Gemini support.
TCL says the QM8L is available to order now starting at $2,500 for the 65-inch model, $3,000 for the 75-inch model, $4,000 for the 85-inch model and $6,000 for the 98-inch model. The TCL QM7L, meanwhile, is available to pre-order starting at $1,200 for the 55-inch model and goes as high as $4,000 for the 98-inch model. If you’re curious about TCL’s new RGB-Mini LED displays, the TCL RM9L is available to pre-order starting at $8,000 for the 85-inch model and up to an eye-popping $30,000 for a 115-inch model.
Hogan Assessments explored the role of the leader in the workplace and the importance of aligning goals with the expectations of the modern workforce.
New global research from HR consulting platform Hogan Assessments has shown that the characteristics and behaviours often displayed by leaders in the workplace are out of touch with the qualities many employees say they want and expect from those in a leadership role.
The ‘Leadership Divide: Global Insights on Who Leads versus Who Should’ report gathered data from more than 21,000 executives and 9,794 full-time employees, across 25 countries. What was discovered is that there is a “clear misalignment between what organisations reward and what employees value”.
To that point, it was found in the report that there is zero overlap between the top five competencies frequently demonstrated by executives and the five characteristics that employees said they wanted for their organisations’ leaders.
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Participating executives were found to better stand out in their company by inspiring others, competing with their peers, presenting their ideas publicly, taking initiative and driving innovation. By comparison, the employees who took part in the research explained that they prioritise an entirely different set of qualities in a leader: communication, integrity, accountability, sound decision-making and the ability to lead effectively.
“Organisations have long tended to reward visibility, confidence and ambition in leaders,” said Allison Howell, the CEO of Hogan Assessments. “But employees are telling us they want something more fundamental: leaders they can trust, leaders who communicate clearly, and leaders who create the conditions for teams to succeed.”
Growing divide
According to Hogan Assessments’ research, and indeed the stance many organisations take, leadership is a resource for teams and should be treated as such. However, the data finds that often executives come in with their own agendas that may not be in line with the viewpoints of the wider workforce.
The report said, “Today’s leaders often focus on their own individual vision, ambition and careers. These behaviours and characteristics tend to get people promoted. But, in contrast, our survey respondents told us they want leaders who focus on accountability, team achievement and other behaviours that support the team.”
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By modelling the competencies most appreciated by employees, the report suggested that those in leadership can create a culture of trust. Because leadership is the ability to build and maintain a high-performing team, trust is foundational to leadership effectiveness; in turn, the report found that “leaders who earn trust create the conditions for teams to perform at their best, giving the organisation a sustainable competitive advantage”.
Of those who participated, 72pc of respondents confidently said emotional volatility and unpredictability have a negative impact, while passive aggression (62pc), arrogance and entitlement (59pc), and extreme caution (56pc) were also identified as qualities that damage trust, increase disengagement and weaken team performance.
Despite this, executives often stood out for assertiveness and self-assurance, with the report noting that the confidence that can help leaders advance “may, when overused or left unchecked, be experienced by teams as arrogance, weakening trust and contributing to disengagement”.
Ultimately, Hogan Assessments’ report found that many of the behaviours that enable leaders to step out in front have the potential to alienate the wider workforce and create a culture of mistrust. With that in mind, organisations may benefit from looking beyond the more obvious, visible, charismatic attributes that denote leadership ability and instead place a greater emphasis on behaviours that build confidence.
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“That shift should be reflected in how leaders are selected and developed, with greater emphasis on coaching, feedback and performance systems that reward accountability, transparency and follow-through.”
Howell said, “Leadership pipelines are strongest when organisations align how they identify and develop leaders with what employees actually value. These findings show that trust, accountability and sound judgment are not secondary qualities. They are central to team effectiveness and long-term performance.”
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