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The Rock Tumbler: How Different Minds Create Breakthrough Thinking.
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Bring In the Artists
If what got us into a predicament cannot be what gets us out of it, then we need different thinking, different perspectives, and different priorities. That is the cleanest way I know to make the case for diversity without getting tangled in the vocabulary that tends to derail the conversation before it begins. Here is […]
The Three Fatal Assumptions
The Rock Tumbler: How Different Minds Create Breakthrough Thinking.
The Cheapest, Most Powerful Thing You Can Do. Right Now!
Do you remember being six years old?Someone told you that you’d done something amazing, and the feeling was electric. Pure. Instantaneous. You stood a little taller. Smiled a little wider. Felt, for one shining moment, like you could do anything. Here’s what nobody tells you: that feeling never goes away. More than twenty, forty, sixty […]
The Stewardship Architecture Way™
The Entry Point $2,000 One goal. Twelve months. Total alignment. Most leaders are juggling ten priorities and winning at none of them, and are quietly convinced that the solution is in an eleventh priority. Its is not. What is the one goal that, if you nailed it, would make everything else easier? THAT is what this engagement […]
Artists Through History
The Rock Tumbler: How Different Minds Create Breakthrough Thinking.
The Thing Jensen Huang Can’t Sell Us
Jensen Huang, the CEO of Nvidia and arguably the most powerful man in the current AI revolution, said something quietly devastating to students at Cambridge University recently. “Intelligence is about to be a commodity.” He wasn’t being pessimistic. He was being precise. The thing we’ve spent decades credentialing, testing, and competing over, y’know, our raw […]
Stop Performing Certainty: What It Actually Takes to Step Beyond the Paradigm
The Mirror Series: Extraction, Complicity, and What We Build From Here
Part Four into a deep dive of Richard David Hames’ essay, “Beyond The Cracked Mirror: The Psychic Contract of a Dying Paradigm”
Steve Jobs & the Silo Problem
Last week I told you about failing the GMAT and feeling like a misfit. About learning that intelligence comes in forms our education system doesn’t measure or value. This week, I want to talk about Steve Jobs. But not the Steve Jobs you think you know. In 1995, Jobs sat down for a raw, unfiltered […]
The Intelligence Trap
(Why We Need Misfits to Save Us) For the longest time, my biggest regret was failing the GMAT. Not because I desperately wanted an MBA. Because that exam was my ticket to an executive MBA program, as a mature student, fully paid for by my employer. That failure proved something I’d suspected my entire life: […]