Hi Reader! We started this week's reading list with creativity. It feels right to close it with innovation.Because they're related, but not the same thing. Creativity is generating something new and valuable. Innovation is what happens when you actually do something with it — when the idea survives contact with the real world and becomes something that works.And most teams are surprisingly bad at making that leap.The reason is that organizational pressure to perform tends to kill the...

Hi Reader! Resilience is a word I’ve lived: navigating toxic cultures, near-misses with being pushed out, relocating rapidly to another country, living through war. Life has given me plenty of material to work with. And for a long time, I understood resilience the way most of us do: something you find when things fall apart. You dig deep, you push through, you get back up. The tougher you are, the faster you recover. What Tissa Richards does in Rethinking Resilience is challenge that framing...

Hi Reader! Without false modesty — I know my stuff. Executive roles, HR transformations, team architecture, leadership coaching. I’ve spent 15 years helping organizations build cultures that actually move the needle on revenue, costs, and performance. That’s my domain, and I’m confident in it. But running and growing my own business? Still learning. From every valuable source I can find. Just like Jeremy’s award-winning book, Your Business Growth Playbook: Breakthrough Strategies to Scale...