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Success Demands Resilience
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ผ๐โ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ถ๐ป๐ด, ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐บ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฑ. Thatโs not how most people think about resilience, but itโs true: ๐ฆ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ฒ๐๐ป’๐ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ป๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐น๐ถ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ. ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐ถ๐. When we talk about resilience, we usually picture someone recovering from failure, crisis or adversity. But there is another kind that receives far less attention:…
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Trust
๐คTrust is regularly overestimated in negotiations. And regularly underestimated. Often by the same people. Benjamin Franklin looks around the table. โTrust is a strange thing. Nobody wants to be the first to give itโyet everyone expects it from the other side.โ Machiavelli nods. โBecause trust can be costly.โ โDistrust can be too,โ Franklin replies. At…
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Separating wheat from chaff
In high school, my Latin teacher (close to retirement at the time) was proud of a reform heโd introduced decades earlier: he allowed students to use a dictionary during exams. Everyone expected grades to improve. Instead, something surprising happened.Good students became even better. Weak students became even worse. Why? The stronger students already understood grammar,…