Sitting eye-to-eye with someone who has honed their craft well beyond Malcom Gladwell’s reported 10,000 hours of mastery is always a revelation. 

So it was a treat to share a cup of tea by the fire on a cold day in London a few weeks ago with Sanyin Siang, the woman that...

Our favorite gelato place always has some crazy flavors of the month. 

It’s fun to see what the new ones are, even though I often default to the same flavor once I find what fits.

My current favorite is Nicky Glasses - coffee & salted caramel gelato with whipped cream. It’s...

“This idea about how things are changing is not new. Things have always been changing.”

So I heard in a Thinkers50 gathering with Howard Yu and Mark Greeven of IMD business school sharing their research on “future-fit” companies.

The difference now is the speed of change....

This thought letter about future proofing life and work is now 100 letters old. Launched as a gift of ideas and conversation that was 100% opt-in, completely free and covering a range of topics and mindsets around creating better futures for yourself, your organizations and the planet. 

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Last week I shared a post on LinkedIn about the Zoom “back to work” announcement which generated a landslide of passionate comments. 

Having seen Zoom’s agility at the beginning of the pandemic when others were slow, there's for sure the possibility of schadenfreude, a...

The slower days of August are a perfect time to catch up with the big, juicy peach-like ideas in life.

While the fiber-filling red apples of Fall are just around the corner, right now there is a bit of space to read and listen and dream and make the weird connections that deliver insights and...

In 1999, I left my lucrative, coveted spot at a management consulting firm to do a stint as Luce Fellow living and working in Asia. I came to Hong Kong as a pit stop to meet my boss on the way to Beijing to start Internet World magazine in China and Asia. 

“Sorry, the joint venture has...

What does Future Proofing have to do with Belonging?

I’ve been banging on about belonging all month in our blog. What the heck do these Future Proof Masterclasses have to do with Belonging?

Well, allow me to digress to our origins. 

The REASON I started the Future Proof course was to...

As we move ever further into the future, the world around us is accelerating at a pace few could have predicted. Amongst these shifts, one thing remains constant: the people. Our human capital is the most sustainable competitive advantage we have. It's the lynchpin in our rapidly spinning...

How has corporate culture shifted to dampen conflict and simultaneously piss people off by failing to address conflicts? What are the implications?

I’ve been thinking about the question above, which came out of last month’s story about how to create belonging for ourselves. ...