Many leaders have been taught to set realistic goals. Realistic usually means achievable. Otherwise, they think they risk demotivating the team. Psychologically, this is based on the concept that people are motivated when they believe their effort can lead to success. Some have learned that this isn’t enough. If you want to perform better than […]
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The technological side is moving on its own. Leading AI researchers now place Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), machines that reason and learn across domains at roughly human level, within the next 10 to 20 years. Whatever the exact date, the direction is settled. Tasks that can be automated will be. That prospect excites me
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I’ve learned over the years, sometimes the hard way, that the people around you are never neutral. They either help you become more fully yourself, or they make you smaller in ways you may only notice later. Green flags in people are the behaviors that create trust and growth. It makes life feel less heavy.
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We all have three currencies. Time. Knowledge. Money. For years, especially while building a career and family, money looked like the decisive currency to me. Until I started to understand that our life is the sum of our exchanges. That insight didn’t come in one big moment. It built across many years. Money matters. It
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Welcome, 2026. Finally, you’re here. How wonderful! I can’t wait to explore you, to learn from you, to work with you. I’ll approach you with respect and humility. You deserve nothing less. There will be many hurdles to overcome, and multiple mistakes to be made. Once in a while I’ll fail. For sure. I know.
I’ve changed my opinions many times over the years. About people. About decisions. About what I thought was true at the time. If that makes me inconsistent, so be it. I’ll take evolving over pretending I’ve always been right. But my values? Those have hardly moved. They weren’t picked up casually, and they don’t get
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If you can’t handle the truth, people stop sharing it with you. Not out of malice, but out of self-preservation. They learn that honesty costs them more than silence gains you. Over time, you become surrounded by echoes of your own assumptions, isolated not by walls but by your own defensiveness. Real growth starts when
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The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics was awarded to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt for explaining innovation-driven economic growth. THEIR WORK Joel Mokyr showed that progress happens when knowledge connects knowledge. He distinguished between propositional knowledge (understanding why things work) and prescriptive knowledge (knowing how to make them work). His deeper message: innovation
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Why do optimists die first? Here’s what really lies behind the question: For eight years Admiral James Stockdale lived inside Vietnamese captivity, in a prison cynically nicknamed the Hanoi Hilton. He was tortured more than twenty times. He did not know whether he would survive, be freed, or see his family again. He refused to
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Ego and confidence get confused constantly, but they’re completely different. Ego is your internal publicist, constantly working to convince the world you’re more important than you actually are. It feeds on external validation like a starving animal, whispering lies: “You’re always right,” “Others don’t understand your brilliance,” “You deserve special treatment.” Confidence is quiet certainty
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