He woke up at 6 a.m. Checked emails before leaving the bed. Responded to messages in traffic. Attended six consecutive meetings. Ate lunch in 12 minutes while staring at a screen. Worked until 8 p.m. Dined while…

When you receive your IDP for the first time, it comes in that elegant folder, with your name printed on the cover. Technical competencies on one side, behavioral ones on the other. A spider chart showing where…

Ana woke up at 5:30 AM to meditate. Then, she posted her morning journaling routine on Instagram, followed by an organic coffee while reading about Stoicism. In the afternoon, she had her weekly therapy session where she…

There is a peculiar form of violence that does not manifest in shouts or explicit prohibitions. It dwells in the space between what was said and what should have been understood. It resides in the distance between…

Today, talking with an old-guard telecom friend who worked at Motorola, we reminisced about those effervescent years — 1997, 1998 — when the telecom market was boiling. The privatization of Telebrás, GSM towers sprouting by the thousands,…

When I read this sentence in Timothy R. Clark’s book on psychological safety, something froze inside me. I couldn’t detach that idea from the reality I experience every day — in organizational consulting, in executive coaching processes,…

Something deeply disturbing is happening in the waiting rooms of contemporary therapists’ offices. I’m not referring to the usual anxiety of those seeking help — that is legitimate, and often moving. I’m talking about something else: the…

There is a skill that separates technically excellent professionals from strategically indispensable leaders — and it rarely appears in job descriptions. It is something simultaneously more subtle and more decisive: the ability to see three levels above…