Cultivating Freedom
Cultivating freedom is not the usual title of an MBA course and not top on the list of what business leaders need. As a business community, we are overlooking a valuable asset, namely freedom.
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When “File Not Found” Becomes a Leadership Asset
Across industries, executives are naming the same experience: the playbooks they once relied on no longer fit. AI and automation are moving quickly, financial pressures remain volatile, and risks seem to arrive in clusters rather than one at a time. Many leaders describe a quiet sense of “file not found”—that moment when the system searches […]
Scaling With Meaning
The pressure to grow is everywhere. Leaders are told to scale faster, expand further, and multiply what they already have—or risk being left behind. The narrative is often about numbers: 10x growth, market share, valuations. Yet scaling for its own sake can be fragile. A strategy that looks promising today may unravel tomorrow when the […]
Seeing Patterns We’ve Never Seen Before
When faced with challenge, most of us instinctively search for patterns. How did this happen? Where have I seen this before? Our brains are wired to connect new experiences to old ones. For thousands of years, that worked—because life didn’t change much. Today, it’s different. The patterns emerging now are often unprecedented. The pandemic and […]