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Neuroscience for leadership, culture, and change in the age of AI.
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The surface is visible. (opens the original)
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We photograph stones because they are beautiful.Geology usually refers to rock as the natural solid material itself. In ordinary language, a stone is often simply a smaller piece or fragment of rock, the part we can pick up, hold, polish, build with, or carry home.The polished marble. The black face of basalt. The layers in sandstone. A piece of granite catching the light. We frame them, collect them, build with them, wear them, photograph them.And then we assume we have seen them.But a
The Seasons of Becoming: What Happens to Us When Life Changes (opens the original)
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There are moments in life when we realize that something has changed, yet we cannot quite explain what it is.The calendar tells us that a new season has begun. A career ends. We retire. Our bodies begin to respond differently. Someone we love becomes seriously ill. The familiar structure of our days disappears, and we find ourselves trying to understand who we are within circumstances we did not necessarily choose.We often speak about these experiences as transitions, as though we were moving fr
Fit Can Be Designed (opens the original)
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Two pieces ago, I argued that our screen is aimed at the wrong target.We measure whether people are employed.We rarely measure whether they’re actually using their capabilities.In Part Two, I went under the hood: why meaning is not a garnish on work but part of the mechanism, and why automation, labor-market structure, and organizational design pull against capable people.This is where it becomes actionable.But first, an important correction to the way we tend to think about fit.We treat fit as
Not a Deficit of Capability (opens the original)
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Last time, I argued that our societal screen is pointed at the wrong target: that we measure whether people are working, not whether they are being properly and efficiently utilized, and that the damage from that mismatch is psychological, physiological, and organizational, all at once.Several of you wrote to say something along the same lines: fine, but now what?This is the answer, and it comes in two parts. First, why this happens: not to you specifically, but structurally, to an entire catego
The Headline Numbers Look Fine. That’s the Problem. (opens the original)
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I recently presented to Mensa the implications of unemployment and underemployment for the gifted mind.The subject was not giftedness in the way we usually talk about it.Not achievement.Not exceptional performance.Not what happens when unusually capable people are given unusually difficult problems.I wanted to talk about the opposite.What happens when capable people are persistently underused?Because our employment statistics are built to answer one question:Are you working?They are not built to
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