Leadership and Organizational Design
Think like a gardener, not an architect: design beginnings, not endings.
Unfinished = fertile
FULL SPEECH: In his address to world and business leaders at the World Economic Forum (WEF), Prime Minister Mark Carney reiterated Canada's support for Greenland's autonomy and said he doesn't view global relationships going back to the way they were.
Carney's comments come as U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened... See more
tiktok.comCanadian president speech.
Optimism isn’t naïve or silly...it’s honestly strategically superior.
The people who move forward fastest aren’t blind to risk; they’re simply more interested in pursuing the possibility of something better, rather than being suppressed by fear.
The people who move forward fastest aren’t blind to risk; they’re simply more interested in pursuing the possibility of something better, rather than being suppressed by fear.
Thoughts of the Week: January 16, 2026
So whether we’re talking about a tool or a communication phrase, I think just being agile enough to look ourselves in the face of the public, use the public as our mirror and say, “are we being clear and does the public understand what we’re trying to do?” And do they ultimately walk away trusting that we’re doing this work on behalf of them, which... See more
San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly and Richmond Fed President Tom Barkin on What's Actually Happening in the Economy
Learning by doing economics is the approach that one of us (SB) adopted as a new assistant professor in the late 1960s when assigned to co-teach the advanced micro-economic theory course in the PhD program at Harvard. We did not give a single lecture; we just asked questions to be discussed based on the readings and set problems to be solved [31]... See more
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An amazing outcome of cross-department collaboration like SFI routinely does
Even at the introductory level, to learn economics is to learn to solve problems, cranking through enough math that you develop an intuition for what is fundamental and what is contingent in an economic model.
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When evaluating a company, one of my favorite questions to ask is whether it has an aesthetic.
We don’t talk about aesthetics as the highest form of brand or story or a reflection of team cohesion, because investing on “vibes” or “look” or “mood” is very frowned upon. Even using it as a data point is beaten out of... See more
Katherine Boylex.comTo commit your life to teaching and mentorship is to give yourself the gift of always having a purpose. There will never be a shortage of need in making information more enjoyable and accessible. But you do have to be flexible in the knowledge that you are teaching. It should be about serving the student. And being a better learner in order to be
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