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What Happened to Sustainability? It's Hiding in Plain Sight.
In short: sustainability hasn't disappeared from companies, it's been renamed and quietly decentralized between Finance's numbers and HR's culture work, and reconnecting the two is what makes it stick. Ask Finance about sustainability and you'll get a spreadsheet. Ask HR and you'll get a shrug, then the word "resilience." It Was Never a Caring Problem Here's what hasn't changed: the planet doesn't care what we call it. Planetary boundaries are still being crossed. Extreme wea
Aug 105 min read


Five Leadership Capacities Every Senior Leader Needs in Complex Times
Athens is not a finished city. It never pretended to be. The Acropolis has been under scaffolding for longer than most European cities have existed. Ruins sit alongside glass towers and graffiti-covered walls. Ancient columns share a corner with a souvlaki stand. Nothing quite resolves into order, and the whole thing hums with an energy that comes, I think, precisely because nothing has been tidied away. It is raw, incomplete, and unmistakably alive. It was the right city for
May 229 min read


From People-Pleasing to Principled Leadership
How senior leaders unlock their real value when approval stops running the show If you suspect you have a people-pleasing tendency, chances are you didn't get where you are despite it. You got here because you are perceptive, responsive, and highly attuned to people. You know how to read a room, anticipate reactions, and keep things moving without unnecessary friction. You care about trust. You value collaboration. You don't lead by force. For a long time, that worked. But
Jan 124 min read
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