What if the biggest risk to performance isn’t talent — but the way we organize authority?

🌿Growth doesn’t begin by acquiring something new—it begins by rediscovering what’s already there.

Stop Choosing — Start Balancing: The future of HR is Both/And.

Bias, predjudice, and bullying - what’s the difference?

🔍 How often do we hear that failure is a stepping stone to success? While inspiring, this idea needs refinement. Not all failures are created equal.

Piggyback, Loophole, Roundabout, and Next-Best are according to Paulo Savaget the four workarounds that can help us navigate life's challenges.

Have you ever been asked, "What have you experienced that I haven't that makes you believe what you do?"

Somehow it is so easy to miss the moment when a little healthy stress turns into physically and mentally draining too much stress. For some while now, “The Little Book of Calm” has been my companion in the most stressful moments when I need to remind myself to slow down.

The two things that motivate people to work are meaning and money. While meaning is something we can easily create for ourselves in any situation, money seems to require a little more effort.

An incentive is a tool used to motivate people to do something they would not otherwise do.

“If you want power to be used for good, more good people need to have power.” Jeffrey Pfeffer

Execution is more important than strategy, and here's why: An idea without execution remains just a dream, but in a business school one will learn much more about strategy than execution.

Why I’m reading this 10 years old book? Becuse nice girls still don’t get the corner office. 9% of Fortune 500 CEOs are women.

How many times have you asked yourself: should I quit or continue? Should I stay or should I go? “Quitting on time usually feels like quitting too early,” says Annie Duke.

My last book of 2022 was “How to perform under pressure. The science of doing your best when it matters most” by Hendrie Weisinger and J. P. Pawliw-Fry.

There isn’t much point in working on great things if nobody knows about them. But what exactly makes sense to talk about to show the value of what you do?

Jennifer Moss reminds us in her "The Burnout Epidemic" that the causes of burnout are organizational rather than individual.

Ram Charan in “Rethinking Competitive Advantage” makes it crystal clear: if at all can we talk about sustained competitive advantage, it has moved from owning tangible hard assets, established patents, and controlled distribution channels to repeatedly reinventing intangible soft assets, consumer preferences, and ecosystems.

Motivation, ability, understanding, confidence, support, market - these are essential success factors for whatever you do, according to Marshall Goldsmith in his most recent book “The Earned Life”.

In “Thinking in bets” Annie Duke asks to imagine your best and your worst decision. Instead of a decision, we tend to identify an outcome. While decision-making process is fully under our control, the outcome is always influenced by luck, i.e. unknown.