Careers are hard to navigate. Three things shape every career path: talent, skills and chance. Talent is a gift you were born with. It is what comes easy to you. The subjects you understand faster than others. The sport you play with ease. It gives you a head start. A steady, hardworking person...
A sales leader spotted weak signals of disruption months before his leader took him seriously, and by then it was too late. This is a REAL story about why leaders need to trust the weak signals their frontline teams bring them, before those signals turn into a crisis.
Some goodbyes don’t get the ending they deserve. Messi stood there, second place, and you could see the disappointment. That was not how he would have dreamt of the World Cup. I wanted Spain to win. But watching Messi lose that final wasn’t a win for me either. It was […]
Your best people aren't lazy, they're just too busy to think. They settle for "good enough" because they have no time to pause. Here's the habit one company built into every single meeting to fix it.
Everyone talks about “the future of work” like it’s one single thing arriving on one single date. Our work identity is evolving. The rise of independent talent is a good place to understand the meaning of work Do We Just Make Up Jobs? Yes The 9 to 5, the pension, […]
Imagine a love letter to the lost skill of paying attention. That is this book complete with 131 bite-sized exercises that wake you up to a world you see but don’t notice. The Art of Noticing by Rob Walker is an invitation for anyone who has ever looked at their […]
Albert Einstein did not get the Nobel Prize for his theory of relativity. The check of $1.2 million for the expires after 12 months. The prize is never given posthumously. Why Gandhi never won the Peace prize. Why Freud did not win ... Full of trivia this piece was first written on October...
You have certainly heard that, “you will be replaced by someone who uses AI.” It sounds logical. It may be the wrong bet. The most dangerous career advice circulating right now is this: learn AI tools or become irrelevant. You have certainly heard that, “you will be replaced by someone who uses...