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Face the inevitable and learn
The trouble with avoiding mistakes is that you don’t learn anything. Which makes you even more likely to make mistakes… especially the big ones. Now, …
Will you be outsourced or automated
I’ve been listening to a lot of Future of Work experts over the last two decades. A lot of it, frankly, is buzzword salad. …
Are you a Minder, Grinder or Finder?
There’s a pretty flat hierarchy in the legal world, so an mnemonic was designed to informally signal the ranks. There are minders, there are grinders and …
Get big, act small
A big company can only hope to act like a small company if it wants to keep growing. Agility and growth are not mutually exclusive. …
Don’t be a whiner
Hillary Clinton’s version on why she lost the election: the game had changed. It can happen to any single one of us. We play by the …
It’s A Joint Effort
How do you actually create an environment where everyone participates? One of the keys is creating a psychologically safe environment. Participation comes at a potential cost. …
Best is a privilege
We have this fantasy wherein we hire the most talented people and immediately have the best team. But that doesn’t take into account chemistry, the …
The long game
The thing about happiness is, well… Well, there’s a lot about happiness. But one thing’s for sure, you can’t buy it and you can’t bookmark it …
My job is to love my life
Mark Manson writes about passion. He writes about our expectations: that because we love doing something, we will always love doing that thing, every day for …
We Are All Patients
The guidebook to empathy in patient care, aptly titled Empathy in Patient Care by Mohammadreza Hojat, opens with a quote by Persian poet Saadi: “All human beings …
Get Gritty
Failure isn’t a permanent condition. This is one of the tenets of Dr. Carol Dweck’s growth mindset philosophy, and the basis of Angela Lee Duckworth’s studies …
Who cares if the lightbulb burns out?
Freedom of time, freedom of money, freedom of relationship, freedom of purpose. Dan Sullivan, the founder of Strategic Coach, gives a talk called 10X is Easier Than …
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