Why Stepping Outside Your Routine Is the Fastest Path to a Fresh Perspective I used to think clarity came from thinking harder. Sitting with a problem longer. Making another list. But every summer, I am reminded that clarity often comes from putting yourself someplace new (and removing yourself from your usual). I once again got […]
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*Company culture that is And Why AI Will Never Replace Them In December 1995, a fire destroyed most of Malden Mills, a textile factory in Massachusetts. It was three days before Christmas. Fourteen hundred people were suddenly out of a job, in a town where the mill was the town. The owner, Aaron Feuerstein, could
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Companies that are quietly replacing human talent with AI automation are making a strategic error that history will judge harshly. With AI headlines dominating every business conversation, it’s tempting to believe that people are replaceable. But the most innovative companies in the world have always operated on a completely different premise — one that a
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Why Your Humanness Is Your Greatest Business Asset in the Age of AI Picture a busy professional, let’s call her Dana, sitting at her desk at 4:47 on a Tuesday afternoon. She needs an answer to a time-sensitive HR question about FMLA leave. Her company recently rolled out a shiny new AI assistant. “Perfect,” she
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There’s a moment in every organization where someone thinks it. Maybe in a meeting, maybe filling out a process form for the fifteenth time, or maybe watching a good employee walk out the door over something entirely preventable. Why are we still doing it this way? Most people think it. Few people say it out
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The new sales leader came in and immediately identified the team’s biggest problem. “The sales reps are leaving events early,” they told me. “That’s time theft, and it’s something I’m going to tackle right away.” I listened. What I wanted to say was, “The problem on this team isn’t time theft. The problem is leadership
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Why the stumble is part of the swing — and how to start taking risks worth taking We have failure backwards. We treat it as an ending, a verdict on our ability, our worth, our potential. We rehearse it in worst-case scenarios before we even begin. We fear it. We hide it. And in doing
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There’s an energy to the job market right now. You can feel it in networking events, LinkedIn posts, interviews, and late-night conversations between exhausted professionals wondering if they’re the problem. Some people are desperately trying to find work. Others are desperately trying to escape it. Employers are frustrated they can’t find “good people.” Employees are
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The two most dangerous words holding you back There is a particularly difficult roadblock we all face when we are trying to create something new. It’s wisdom. It whispers that you already have the information you need, that you’ve been around this block before, that the person explaining this to you doesn’t quite understand how
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(Without Realizing You’re Doing It) Most leaders don’t wake up in the morning thinking, “How can I create a disengaged, exhausted, high-turnover team today?” And yet it happens every day. Not because people are malicious. Because they’re overwhelmed, undertrained, reactive, or stuck repeating leadership patterns they experienced themselves. A toxic workplace rarely begins with one
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