Karl Bimshas
@karlbimshas.bsky.social
Leadership Advisor | Writer
I post about leadership, accountability, personal development and writing.
You can be a competent, confident leader without becoming a jerk.
I post about leadership, accountability, personal development and writing.
You can be a competent, confident leader without becoming a jerk.
It’s free speech
until you can’t control it,
insist on punishing those who say something counter to it; or simply repeat it—but you don’t like the tone or interpretation, or some other random excuse.
Then it’s something else.
But people will nod, and you will feel superior.
until you can’t control it,
insist on punishing those who say something counter to it; or simply repeat it—but you don’t like the tone or interpretation, or some other random excuse.
Then it’s something else.
But people will nod, and you will feel superior.
September 15, 2025 at 7:37 PM
It’s free speech
until you can’t control it,
insist on punishing those who say something counter to it; or simply repeat it—but you don’t like the tone or interpretation, or some other random excuse.
Then it’s something else.
But people will nod, and you will feel superior.
until you can’t control it,
insist on punishing those who say something counter to it; or simply repeat it—but you don’t like the tone or interpretation, or some other random excuse.
Then it’s something else.
But people will nod, and you will feel superior.
They have always feared facts. That’s why the hardest work they do is distort them. They demand proof from their opponents, then predictably deny every piece presented. Their own “knowledge,” however, must remain unquestioned.
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Trump removes official overseeing jobs data after dismal employment report
President Donald Trump on Friday had his team remove the head of the agency that produces the monthly jobs figures, after a weak report showed hiring slowed and was much weaker in April and May than p...
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August 4, 2025 at 4:36 PM
They have always feared facts. That’s why the hardest work they do is distort them. They demand proof from their opponents, then predictably deny every piece presented. Their own “knowledge,” however, must remain unquestioned.
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
Leadership Shouldn’t Be Locked Behind A Paywall
Two leadership paths. One system. Choose clarity over gatekeeping.
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Two leadership paths. One system. Choose clarity over gatekeeping.
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Leadership Shouldn’t Be Locked Behind A Paywall
Two paths. One standard. You choose.
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July 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Leadership Shouldn’t Be Locked Behind A Paywall
Two leadership paths. One system. Choose clarity over gatekeeping.
open.substack.com/pub/karlbims...
Two leadership paths. One system. Choose clarity over gatekeeping.
open.substack.com/pub/karlbims...
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Daughter of street vendor asking why police aren't helping!! Broken heart 💔
🖕🏽 LAPD
🖕🏽 LAPD
July 9, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Daughter of street vendor asking why police aren't helping!! Broken heart 💔
🖕🏽 LAPD
🖕🏽 LAPD
Leadership without empathy is not leadership — it’s drift.
Leaders must reject the false belief that people deserve their poverty or wealth, and instead take responsibility for challenging unjust systems, leading with empathy, and fixing what’s broken.
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Leaders must reject the false belief that people deserve their poverty or wealth, and instead take responsibility for challenging unjust systems, leading with empathy, and fixing what’s broken.
open.substack.com/pub/karlbims...
Leadership Fails When It Justifies Suffering
Leadership without empathy is not leadership — it’s drift.
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July 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Leadership without empathy is not leadership — it’s drift.
Leaders must reject the false belief that people deserve their poverty or wealth, and instead take responsibility for challenging unjust systems, leading with empathy, and fixing what’s broken.
open.substack.com/pub/karlbims...
Leaders must reject the false belief that people deserve their poverty or wealth, and instead take responsibility for challenging unjust systems, leading with empathy, and fixing what’s broken.
open.substack.com/pub/karlbims...
Stop Your Leadership Drift
To overcome leadership drift and multiply your impact, intentionally pull these ten levers daily to reclaim your power, direct your attention, build influence, and lead with purpose and long-term vision.
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To overcome leadership drift and multiply your impact, intentionally pull these ten levers daily to reclaim your power, direct your attention, build influence, and lead with purpose and long-term vision.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/stop-y...
Stop Your Leadership Drift
10 Anti-Drift Levers Effective Leaders Can Pull to Reclaim Their Impact Most leaders aren’t lazy, but many are drifting. Busy, overwhelmed, and caught in a motion that seems like progress.
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June 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Stop Your Leadership Drift
To overcome leadership drift and multiply your impact, intentionally pull these ten levers daily to reclaim your power, direct your attention, build influence, and lead with purpose and long-term vision.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/stop-y...
To overcome leadership drift and multiply your impact, intentionally pull these ten levers daily to reclaim your power, direct your attention, build influence, and lead with purpose and long-term vision.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/stop-y...
June 26, 2025 at 3:21 AM
The Leadership Accountability Script Vault:
Over 60 Scripts to Confront Leadership Drift without Derailing Your Career
A practical toolkit for leaders who need to have tough conversations.
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Over 60 Scripts to Confront Leadership Drift without Derailing Your Career
A practical toolkit for leaders who need to have tough conversations.
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The Leadership Accountability Script Vault
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June 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
The Leadership Accountability Script Vault:
Over 60 Scripts to Confront Leadership Drift without Derailing Your Career
A practical toolkit for leaders who need to have tough conversations.
karlbimshas.kit.com/products/the...
Over 60 Scripts to Confront Leadership Drift without Derailing Your Career
A practical toolkit for leaders who need to have tough conversations.
karlbimshas.kit.com/products/the...
For executives, business owners, managers, organizers, and professionals who refuse to submit to manipulation, passive compliance, or moral compromise.
Whether you lead a team, a business, a movement, or simply yourself, this is a call to lead more effectively.
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Whether you lead a team, a business, a movement, or simply yourself, this is a call to lead more effectively.
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June 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
For executives, business owners, managers, organizers, and professionals who refuse to submit to manipulation, passive compliance, or moral compromise.
Whether you lead a team, a business, a movement, or simply yourself, this is a call to lead more effectively.
karlbimshas.kit.com/products/nav...
Whether you lead a team, a business, a movement, or simply yourself, this is a call to lead more effectively.
karlbimshas.kit.com/products/nav...
Leadership, not as a position, but as a stance, against cruelty, complacency, and cowardice.
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When Institutions Fail, People Must Lead
Your Leadership Is Measured by What You Refuse to Tolerate
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June 14, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Leadership, not as a position, but as a stance, against cruelty, complacency, and cowardice.
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Remember in February, when the White House posted this?
June 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Remember in February, when the White House posted this?
Working in a coffee shop when a patron is having a phone conversation is always deeply annoying and I thought our culture would have fixed this by early 2000. Yet, when they have a voice like Denzel Washington’s, it suddenly feels cinematic. Still annoying, just less so.
June 10, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Working in a coffee shop when a patron is having a phone conversation is always deeply annoying and I thought our culture would have fixed this by early 2000. Yet, when they have a voice like Denzel Washington’s, it suddenly feels cinematic. Still annoying, just less so.
'Navigating Chaos: A Manifesto for Principled Defiance' is for execs, managers, & pros who are tired of weak leadership & moral compromise.
Act with principle, stay true to values, & hold yourself accountable.
📥 Download the PDF now!
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Act with principle, stay true to values, & hold yourself accountable.
📥 Download the PDF now!
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June 9, 2025 at 7:45 AM
'Navigating Chaos: A Manifesto for Principled Defiance' is for execs, managers, & pros who are tired of weak leadership & moral compromise.
Act with principle, stay true to values, & hold yourself accountable.
📥 Download the PDF now!
karlbimshas.kit.com/products/nav...
Act with principle, stay true to values, & hold yourself accountable.
📥 Download the PDF now!
karlbimshas.kit.com/products/nav...
You Don’t Need a Flashbang to Arrest a Dishwasher
If You Intervene, You’re an ‘Insurrectionist.’ If You Comply, You’re Next.
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You Don’t Need a Flashbang to Arrest a Dishwasher
If You Intervene, You’re an ‘Insurrectionist.’ If You Comply, You’re Next.
open.substack.com
June 9, 2025 at 12:51 AM
You Don’t Need a Flashbang to Arrest a Dishwasher
If You Intervene, You’re an ‘Insurrectionist.’ If You Comply, You’re Next.
open.substack.com/pub/karlbims...
open.substack.com/pub/karlbims...
What will you do when the people you know, the ones who trust you, are threatened?
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As a leader, do you have a plan if ICE raids your business?
Uncomfortable?
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June 2, 2025 at 2:31 AM
What will you do when the people you know, the ones who trust you, are threatened?
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Even the Best Leaders Screw Up — But the Smart Ones Fix It
How many of these 30 leadership mistakes have you made ... recently?
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How many of these 30 leadership mistakes have you made ... recently?
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Even the Best Leaders Screw Up
But the Smart Ones Fix It
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May 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Even the Best Leaders Screw Up — But the Smart Ones Fix It
How many of these 30 leadership mistakes have you made ... recently?
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How many of these 30 leadership mistakes have you made ... recently?
open.substack.com/pub/karlbims...
This, or even a Schoolhouse Rocks refresher, will help a number of people in immeasurable ways.
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Catalog of Courses
Browse the latest courses from Harvard University
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May 24, 2025 at 3:17 PM
This, or even a Schoolhouse Rocks refresher, will help a number of people in immeasurable ways.
pll.harvard.edu/catalog?keyw...
pll.harvard.edu/catalog?keyw...
If you have the opportunity to prevent a kidnapping this weekend, you absolutely should.
May 23, 2025 at 9:52 PM
If you have the opportunity to prevent a kidnapping this weekend, you absolutely should.
Grateful to those who’ve already picked up Navigating Chaos—you get it.
This isn’t self-help. It’s a field guide for principled leaders resisting the creep of authoritarianism and institutional cowardice.
To those leading with integrity—this is for you.
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This isn’t self-help. It’s a field guide for principled leaders resisting the creep of authoritarianism and institutional cowardice.
To those leading with integrity—this is for you.
karlbimshas.kit.com/products/nav...
Navigating Chaos
karlbimshas.kit.com
May 23, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Grateful to those who’ve already picked up Navigating Chaos—you get it.
This isn’t self-help. It’s a field guide for principled leaders resisting the creep of authoritarianism and institutional cowardice.
To those leading with integrity—this is for you.
karlbimshas.kit.com/products/nav...
This isn’t self-help. It’s a field guide for principled leaders resisting the creep of authoritarianism and institutional cowardice.
To those leading with integrity—this is for you.
karlbimshas.kit.com/products/nav...