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Principles of the Unreasonable: 7 Traits of Top Innovators
Innovation has always had a public relations problem. After something works, we romanticize it. We tell neat stories about visionary founders and breakthrough moments and pretend the path was logical all along. Yet while those same innovators were in the thick of trying to build something new, the world rarely called them brilliant. More often…
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What if we replaced Mission Statements with Oaths?
Mission statements are meant to foster commitment amongst employees and most companies have one. Except it is often viewed as window-dressing, seen as abstract, and often totally disconnected from the daily reality of the work. When these statements are created top-down without employee input, or when company actions contradict the stated values, they can lead…
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How to Find out what Actually Works
Excellence is not hustle-culture bullshit. It is not waking up at 4 AM to cold plunge and telling everyone about it. It is not a restrictive diet. It is not a chest-thumping act of look how great I am. It is not sacrificing your soul or bending the knee to make as much money as…
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The Story we tell Ourselves about why People say “yes” to our Marketing
I’ve noticed we have a habit of congratulating the wrong thing… especially in business. Someone says yes and we rush to credit the headline, the funnel, the positioning, the sly little hook we thought up in the shower. It feels good to imagine the yes was engineered, that we lined up the dominos just right…
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Wealth, Optionality, and the Deliciousness of “No”
The Economic Times features a quote each day. Today’s quote is from Nassim Nicholas Taleb – Lebanese-American New York Polytech Professor, essayist, mathematical statistician, former option trader, risk analyst, and aphorist; whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, complexity, and uncertainty. You are rich if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept. There’s…
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The Invisible Obstacle and Money Flow
We make money heavier than it needs to be. Leaders talk about revenue, runway, profitability, receivables… the whole glossary of financial adulthood. Yet beneath all of that is something quieter, older, almost embarrassingly human: our relationship with giving and receiving. Somewhere along the way we made receiving the crowned jewel. We elevated the incoming. The…
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Why Caribbean Leaders in Top Tier Positions Avoid Assessments
There’s a leadership conversation we keep skirting in the Caribbean.Everyone is willing to assess the organization. Assess the team. Assess the culture. Assess the managers. But the person who shapes the emotional, psychological, and strategic weather system of the entire enterprise remains… untouched. Untouched, unexamined, and often unadvised. It’s not because our leaders don’t want…
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The Space Between Knowing and Doing
In every team, every family, every country… a silence shows up…one that lives right in that narrow passage between what people say they understand and what they actually do. It’s a strange little corridor. You can’t always see it, but you can feel the drag of it. Plans begin with clarity, but the execution lags…
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