@rishadt.bsky.social
Despite the algorithmic armies, & agentic AI’s, everyone has agency.
Nothing is written. Nothing pre-determined. There is no “way” or some force to align with.
3 ways to become better:
1. Do the next best thing.
2. Leave things better.
3. Better our previous self.
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How to upgrade our mental operating systems.
A link to a free download of one of the most popular chapters of my book.
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4 conversations on the future of work
Humanity, Humans and Meaning in the Agentic Workplace.
How is AI reshaping who holds power in the knowledge economy?
On The Death of the Corporate Job.
On courage to choose yourself.
Access here
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Five Learnings on success at work and life
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Rishad Tobaccowala
Long Term Career Fitness
a) Keep skills up to tomorrow
b)Maximize Optionality.
3 critical exercises
1. Prepare for a marathon not a sprint.
2. Recognize that jobs and work are uncoupling.
3. Learn to operate as a Company of One.
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The Future Does Not Fit in The Mindsets of the Past
On the Power of Education and how to self educate to build the skills of cognition, creativity, curiosity, choreography and communication that will stand us well in an AI Age.
rishad.substack.com/p/on-education
How to rethink presentations, the world of work and your career
A post for anyone thinking about how to thrive in these tectonic times
Free of any subscriptions, ads or data harvesting.
Just how to rethink...
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The 6 keys of excellent leadership and 7 traits of great cultures.
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Frank Herbert wrote in Dune: "Fear is the mind-killer."
And when we are ruled by fear we are defeating ourselves.
We are practicing self-oppression.
Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote : “Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world."
rishad.substack.com/p/fear
We are in tectonic times
Your company and your own strategy may be out of date
Its time for a Strategic Reset
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On Wisdom.
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Why Google , Microsoft and other AI companies are led by Indians.
It’s in our food…
We are no longer in transformational times.
We are in Tectonic Times.
The Five Tectonic Shifts:
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On Change
Change sucks. But irrelevance is even worse.
How to cure IDD ( Inner Dinosaur Disease)
Companies do not change people do.
Change is about leadership.
To change we need to think like immigrants since we are all immigrating to the future.
rishad.substack.com/p/change
How to sell better.
Three exercises.
1. SAVE. Solution. Access. Value . Experience
2. Elements of Photography: Frame. Expose. Edit.
3. 9 Slide Presentations.
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Chicago Pictures
Three Windows and Two Eyes
Michael Erimo
If you have a hard time saying sorry
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The First World Humanoid Robot Games
Take a minute to watch this video
The future of AI when combined
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How to be more effective.
The 3 keys to being effective are
1) leveraging the only asset one has which is time,
2) making sure that every interaction has the ability to be a tattoo moment, and
3) soaring through feedback.
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Distilled learning on Managing Careers including
1) Operating with A company of One mindset
2) Practicing Resurrection
3) Keeping a sense of perspective
4) Focusing on the 6c's of Cognition, Creativity, Curiosity, Connection, Convincing and Communication.
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The Future of work is Less
And more
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Grace
To be human in an AI Age is to combine roots and wings.
To architect, hone and sculpt our voice.
And to live with grace.
Today the third of the popular series being Human in the Age of AI.
Grace: rishad.substack.com/p/human-in-a...
Voice
A key to thrive in the AI Age
A four step approach
1) Upgrade Our AI Quotient ( Simple easy ways to do so)
2) The importance of 4 P's: Perspective, POV, Provocation and Plan of Action
3) Opening Portas
4) Aesthetics
Read the entire piece here:
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Human in an AI Age
The importance of Roots and Wings
My newest piece on Rishad.Substack.Com which is now read by 30,000 leaders and is completely free ( No Subscription, No Ads)
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Our delightful and fascinating conversation with the most quotable man in media, @rishadt.bsky.social"
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In Colombo, Sri Lanka, lies a cemetery containing the grave of Arthur Charles Clarke who wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The gravestone has this phrase inscribed on it:
“He never grew up, but he never stopped growing”
Arthur C Clarke remained forever young.
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"You won't lose your job to AI but to somebody who learns to use AI"
Really?
Rethink Work to prepare for the decline of jobs and the rise of work
Companies that get work done only through the containers of jobs are in for a surprise
rethinking-work.io
Creativity is an expression of self
A must read
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On Trust and Integrity
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Knowledge is a process of piling up facts;wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fischer, German-born American Physician / Teacher / Author (1879-1962)
