•Leadership
People manager: Evangeline meritocracy and encourage meaningful debate
Build a team that thinks independently, not just follows orders. True meritocracy means junior members can challenge ideas without fear—and the best solution wins.
Leadership
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•Leadership
The need to control your negative thoughts and feelings as a people manager
Your mood as a manager directly impacts your team's performance and company results—when job satisfaction drops 1%, financial results fall 2.5%.
•Leadership
Why behaving well is the first step to becoming someone worth following
Before you can lead others, you must master the golden rule—and understand that great ideas transcend language barriers and cultural differences.
•Leadership
The forgotten crisis
COVID-19 will nearly double acute hunger to 265 million people in six months, yet this crisis remains invisible because it's happening far from view.
•Geopolitics
What are the most Critical Global challenges facing humankind in the next 50 -100 years? (part 2)
I explore how automation and AI could displace 75 million jobs by 2022—but what happens to workers at 45 or 55 who can't easily retrain, or entire developing nations?
•Geopolitics
US economy has not worked for the majority of Americans over the past 40 years
While US GDP tripled since 1979, median wages grew just 6%—and for men, they fell 5%. The data reveals a stark disconnect between economic growth and worker prosperity.
•Leadership
Steven Pinker and Yuval Noah Harari in conversation
Two of my favourite thinkers discuss big ideas in an intimate format that prioritizes depth over performance—respectful disagreement included.
•book review
A heart-wrenching and uplifting book by Melinda Gates "Moment of Lift"
I was skeptical until I read it—Melinda Gates blends heart-wrenching stories with data to reveal powerful levers that can truly lift humanity.
•Data privacy
"Digital platform inquiry by Australia Competition and Consumer Commission" - A Good Read
Australia's competition watchdog released a 600+ page evidence-based report on digital platforms—I found their 23 specific recommendations a must-read for understanding data privacy.
•Leadership
Less meeting, more thinking
I block half of every Monday for thinking time—because in a world where $37B is wasted on bad meetings annually, protecting time to think isn't optional anymore.
•Japan
Japan advertising landscape key facts and trends updated Apr 2019
Japan's ad market reveals a surprising lag: mobile spending trails China and South Korea by wide margins, while digital growth races ahead at 10%+ annually.
•Facebook
The balance between privacy and innovation (part 1)
Data is now considered as valuable as oil once was, yet most of us don't understand what personal data actually is, who owns it, or what rights we have over it.