The tenerife disaster of 1977: “We're going”. What if it’s not the phones?. AI versus the MBA.

One “must” for this week: The Tenerife disaster of 1977: “We’re going”

This tragic event reminds us how people do not usually speak up with their concerns, and especially do not speak up again once they have spoken up and been dismissed, even when their own lives and the lives of others are at stake.

The interpersonal costs and risks of speaking up feel so large that they outweigh the benefits of doing so.

Personal development

• What if it’s not the phones?

• How to read like a scientist

• How to read more books

• The 1 thing that makes corporate jobs hard

• The end of reading is here

• We need guidelines for learning and AI

• What is the value of one hour of a startup founder’s time?

• Why I stopped arguing with people

Innovation

• AI versus the MBA

• 10 books, one big question: what does AI mean for us?

• Google’s AI search is rapidly becoming the default, new data shows

• Optimizing for the wrong metrics

• Should countries buy, build, or lease to maintain strategic control of their AI?

• The future worth building is human

• The vital few

• When flexibility becomes a liability

Leadership and management

• The Tenerife disaster of 1977: “We’re going”

• 4 hidden traps of team dynamics

• 5 reasons calendars are full of meetings

• How to avoid catastrophe: the normalization of deviance

• Queen bee syndrome: the workplace dynamic holding women back

• Research: why some junior employees work well with AI-and others don’t

• Why mentoring matters more in the AI era

• Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers-not specialists-in the AI era

One book

“Why we sleep: unlocking the power of sleep and dreams” by Matthew Walker.