Not having children is a choice: but do we really know what drives it?

The prevailing narrative goes like this: young people are not having children because they have no money.

Emotions are not to be managed. They are to be listened to.

Why suppressing them does not work, ruminating makes things worse, and the only useful thing is to ask them what they are trying to say

The effort that makes us whole

What we lose when we stop putting effort into what we produce.

Those who build processes should not love them too much

The organisational paradox: why companies entrust process design to the wrong people

The role no one assigned you

How real leadership emerges in organisations. At the bottom of every email you send, there is a line saying who you are and what you do: a name, a title, a department. It is the official version of your role, the one the company decided on, the one human resources recorded. Perhaps you agreed it with them; it is certainly the one that appears on the organisation chart.

If there is disorder within, you cannot create order outside

Our minds discard almost all the information they receive, selecting only what they consider relevant. Values, goals and beliefs act as the criteria for this selection. Understanding how the attentional filter works means understanding why some people see opportunities everywhere while others feel submerged in noise.