Rethinking Meetings.
We spend our time in meetings.
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Paradox.
To be financially successful in the coming years, it’s not just about capitalizing on the new ways to make or save money.
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The Sense of an Ending
“What you end up remembering isn’t always the same as what you have witnessed.”
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Six Keys to Career Success.
1. Align with emerging trends.
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Staying Human in the Age of Data
A smart and worldly man, Tobaccowala has produced a deeply informed book about brand marketing, data science, and humanity that is a remarkably lively read. Name another book about business (or any other subject) that in one breath urges the reader to acknowledge “the turd on the table” in the boardroom and references François Truffaut’s The 400 Blows and Joan Didion in the next. Marketing+Strategy Magazine Best Business Books 2020.
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Transformation, Leadership & Talent: A conversation with David Kenny.
David Kenny is the Chairman of Nielsen, Best Buy and Teach For America.
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On Work.
Work is central to the human experience.
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People.
Everything is easy but people get in the way.
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Avoiding Career Irrelevance.
The conflation of five major forces from 1)technology to 2) demographic change, to 3) the growing importance of marketplaces where one can access both resources or customers with minimal to no capital, to 4) the rewiring of work due to Covid and 5) the rise of an economy of free-lance workers and rise of the side hustle, will impact every job but particularly those of knowledge works very significantly.
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Repairing Ourselves.
"Everything that has a shape breaks”- Japanese Proverb
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Grace
The most updated and advanced versions of foundational AI models from Anthropic, Google and Microsoft, as well as a seasoned version of human intelligence (HI) were asked the same question about grace.
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On Technological Change: 3 Learnings.
For four decades my career at Publicis Groupe has been deeply intertwined with technology, allowing me to observe its changes across several industries including the communications industry.
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Modern Leadership.
We have entered an age of de-bossification.
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Becoming You.
While it is important to listen to and learn from other people and be aware of what they may think of us, we should not live in other peoples minds.
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Organizational Misfit.
The future organization does not fit in the containers or the mindsets of the past.
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Thriving in the Long Run.
Successful individuals and firms tend to have a commonality to their success.
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AI, Humans and Work: 10 Thoughts.
This past Friday, I had the opportunity to present at the AI-volution of Culture 2.0 held at the Times Center in New York City. The event was created by Quilt. AI, a company on whose board I sit and featured the talk show host and comedian Trevor Noah, the incredible chef Massimo Bottura of Osteria Francescana, Katie Drummond the Global Editorial Director of Wired, and many other extra-ordinary presenters.
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7 Steps To Transformation.
From “The Hollow Men” by TS Eliot.
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Rethinking Work
This post provides an update and a request before we return to regular posts next week.
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On Words.
The perfect words in the perfect order is one definition of poetry.
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