María Albert

99% of leaders ruin their companies with this irreversible mistake:

They stick to their guns.

Great companies recognize when change is necessary for survival.

They recognize when market conditions change and adapt accordingly.

They're willing to sacrifice short-term profits for long-term success.

But too many companies are set in their ways.

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Endurance is a form of trust, in your capacity over time to absorb the stresses and extremes of the present. I say trust because the math in the moment may break: the opposition overwhelming, your resources faint. So you make eye contact with the enemy. You put down your spear. You turn your back and wait for the tension to break. The quality that... See more

[Chill.] A definition

the sudden awareness that no one knows what they're doing

And life is short.

And much of what you’re worrying about right now, in the fullness of time, just doesn’t matter.

You may not “got this.”

You may not “figure it out”

You may not be have the perfect plan.

But neither do the rest of us.

So take a deep breath, smile and relish

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Ripples of Impact is a concept previously discussed here at School of Thought. The idea is to expand the ROI (return on investment) in education to see the ROI (ripples of impact). The concept encourages sharing lasting effects beyond immediate instructional outcomes.

For this concept to take shape, we needed a way to see these ripples in action.

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I think one thing that is a really important thing to strive for is being internally driven, being driven to compete with yourself, not with other people. If you compete with other people, you end up in this mimetic trap, and you sort of play this tournament, and if you win, you lose. But if you’re competing with yourself, and all you’re trying to... See more