Reflections on workplace dynamics, team interactions, and the structures that shape professional environments. These essays offer fresh perspectives on collaboration, leadership, and creating more human-centered organizational cultures.
In our relentless pursuit of productivity, we’ve inverted an ancient wisdom: leisure isn’t what remains after work, but the foundation from which meaningful work emerges.
Categorizing capabilities as “hard” or “soft” skills fragments what is fundamentally whole. This artificial division reflects a philosophy that reduces humans to skill assemblages rather than integrated beings, potentially blinding us to the qualities that make us fully human.
Emotional bureaucracy—the internalization of administrative logic into our most intimate psychological processes—transforms how we experience life itself. We become both bureaucrat and bureaucratized, simultaneously administering and being administered by our own hearts.
In our obsession with excellence, we’ve become slaves to arbitrary metrics. The concept of ‘good enough’ isn’t surrendering to mediocrity, but recognizing that sustainable achievement often emerges precisely when we stop demanding perfection from ourselves and others.
I fear this is the state in which the world finds itself: normally sick, to the point where it's difficult to distinguish health from pathology. Burnout, constant pressure, ecological erosion—these have become our new normal. In these urgent times, perhaps what we need most is to slow down.
Three kinds of conversation help to build more effective and harmonious teams.
