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...

Hi Reader! "I'm not a creative person."I hear this a lot from the leaders I work with. Smart, experienced, capable people — who have somehow decided that creativity is a trait they weren't given.And I get it. Most of us grew up being sorted: the artistic kids and everyone else. If you couldn't draw, you were filed under "not creative," and that was that.But the more I learn about creativity, the more I realize that it has nothing to do with drawing. (or at least drawing is just one side of...