Shared language enables teams to align, decide, and act with clarity. Without it, confusion deepens and performance falters. Executive coaching insights and the lived experience of Mayan migrants reveal how ethical speech—noble rather than base—can transform organisational life. Language doesn’t jus
Too often, career changes are framed as 'pivots' that erase prior achievements. Instead, professionals should stack experience—layering skills, insights, and accomplishments into a coherent foundation for leadership. Reject the myth of starting over and compound capability across roles. In doing so,
Margaret Mead's reflections on Santa Clause offer a balanced approach to preserving childhood wonder while fostering critical thinking. She emphasised distinguishing myth from deception, framing Santa as a
Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise, but they struggle with logical reasoning due to token bias, where small input changes can lead to significantly different outputs. This
In today's virtue signalling work environment, busyness often masquerades as productivity. Many tasks are non-essential, leading to a sense of being unfulfilled and exhausted. To combat this, strategies
The ability to critically think through problems is invaluable yet challenging to master. Effective thinking saves time, reduces mistakes, and fosters innovation, but it's not a fixed skill.
A friend of mine often remarks, "I'm not always right, but I'm never wrong." This in a sense sums up the problem with the prevailing view about what 'being right' means. It preferences outcomes over inputs.
The hope is much, for having gotten this far is to be forewarned and thus forearmed. In that we do well to employ scepticism when listening to a human interlocutor. Because even the best of us are filling in the blanks in our memory.
This is why some people will look at a library and see a wealth of opportunity, while others will see the same space and same books and apprehend only barriers to entry or exclusion from a world in which they think they have no part to play.
One of History's lessons is that once a group is deemed unteachable they will be placed in the category of an ever present threat to the preferred social order.
Sit with ambiguity, but be aware of when a seemingly circular conversation is enhancing a definitional understanding and when it is just a group of individuals unable to comprehend ambiguity hoping that a drawn out conversation will nail down the problem.
