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Join my new subscriber chat, I have a welcome surprise for you🎁 (opens the original)
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Today I’m announcing a brand new addition to my Substack publication: Simply Human Newsletter subscriber chat.This is a conversation space exclusively for subscribers—kind of like a group chat or live hangout. I’ll post questions and updates that come my way, and you can jump into the discussion.Join chatHow to get startedGet the Substack app by clicking this link or the button below.<
Obsolescence Is Not an Age. It Is a Decision. (opens the original)
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👋 Hej,I want to tell you about a moment I have never fully written about in this newsletter.I was deep inside a corporate role that looked fine from the outside. Good title. Decent salary. Enough responsibility to keep me busy.And then one day, a manager asked me to let someone go.Not because of results. Not because of attitude toward the work. But because, in their words, he had “une attitude de vieux.” An old person’s attitude. Too slow. Too cautious. Too much of the past.Something broke in me
What If Your Company Has Been Promoting the Wrong People All Along? (opens the original)
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👋 Hej,Here is a number that should make every HR leader uncomfortable.50 to 70 percent of executives fail within eighteen months of a new role.Not because they were bad at their previous job. Not because they lacked intelligence or drive. Not because the organisation picked poorly on paper.They failed because the evidence used to promote them was pointing at the past. And the past is the wrong instrument for reading readiness.This week I am sharing the conversation with Logan Yonavjak, co-founde
What If You’ve Been Searching for Purpose in All the Wrong Places? (opens the original)
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👋 Hej,Let me ask you something uncomfortable.When was the last time you went looking for purpose?Not in a philosophical, Sunday-afternoon kind of way. I mean actively. A new role. A new project. A new identity. That feeling of reaching for something that would finally make the work feel like it meant something.Now here is the harder question: did you find it? Or did you fill up on something that felt right for a while, and then left you hungry again?I have been thinking about this a lot. Because
What If the Most Underrated Brain in the Room Belongs to a Gen X? (opens the original)
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👋 Hej,Let me tell you about a generation that nobody is writing think pieces about anymore.Not Boomers, there are entire industries built on managing their exit. Not Millennials, the world spent two decades trying to understand them. Not Gen Z, every HR conference has a panel on them right now.I’m talking about Gen X.Born roughly between 1965 and 1980. Old enough to remember a world without internet. Young enough to have built their careers inside it. The generation that grew up being told they
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