Emotional intelligence: the 1 thing everybody misses. Your manager is already investing in you. 10 charts that capture how the world is changing.

One “must” for this week: Emotional intelligence: the 1 thing everybody misses.

In this week’s curation newsletter: Justin Bariso shares how emotional intelligence can turn perceived weaknesses into strengths, using Superman’s early struggles as an analogy.

Learning to understand and manage emotions can transform reactions into advantages.

The sources and more in this week’s newsletter edition 👇

Personal development

• Your manager is already investing in you

• Feeling tired? Here are 7 things we get wrong about what gives us energy

• LinkedIn co-founder’s take on balance

• Permission to chase work you love

• The anti-To-Do list: a major life hack

• The most powerful paradoxes of life

• The power of beauty in times of crisis

• When being the most reliable leader becomes a liability

Innovation

• 10 charts that capture how the world is changing

• 56% of companies getting nothing out of AI, pwC research says; chairman blames forgetting the basics

• How generative and agentic AI shift concern from technical debt to cognitive debt

• Taste for makers

• What 300,000 voices say about the next era of global change

• What comes next is bigger than SaaS ever was

• When every company can use the same AI models, context becomes a competitive advantage

• Why AI adoption stalls, according to industry data

Leadership and management

• Emotional intelligence: the 1 thing everybody misses

• Employers love tricky job interview questions, but they’re actually useless

• Feel like your job is meaningless? Here’s why

• Premature certainty

• The real reason culture implementation fails (And it’s not communication)

• When you have to assign work no one wants to do

• Why we should cherish women over 50

• Work from home and fertility

One book

“The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes, and Its Implications” by David Deutsch.