Newsletter
May 2025: What If Your Best Idea Is the One Holding You Back?
this is newsletter issue #75
Richard Brisebois
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The question that cuts through every explanation
Everyone has a reason, but not everyone gets the prize. Discover how the ancient question 'cui bono' cuts through every explanation to reveal who actually benefits from any decision or action.
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The Five Dimensions of Strategic Career Choices
Every career is ultimately shaped by a series of decisions that make up a chronology of roles informed by the architecture of choices beneath them. Having worked closely with professionals across industries and career stages, I’ve seen that the most resilient and meaningful trajectories aren’t built by accumulating
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You’re in the Room: Owning Your Place in Leadership
Leaders from non-traditional backgrounds often question their place in boardrooms. But starting with "Should I be here?" creates a self-imposed handicap. You're already in the room—someone saw your value. The real question isn't how you got there, but what you'll do now that you've arrived. This exp
Essays
The YouTube Mirage
A short plea against mistaking exposure for understanding
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Spirit and Structure: A Minimalist Reflection (On the Occasion of the Upcoming Conclave)
This is a departure from my usual writing about leadership and management. But not a detour. What follows is a quiet reflection on leadership of a different kind—spiritual, ecclesial, and paradoxically both human and divine. With the conclave now underway, I've been thinking about the nature of
team connections
April 2025 - when Teams truly connect, Patience as a strategic edge, the trap of Over-Efficiency, Humor in workplace absurdity
this is Issue #74
Essays
"I’ve Done My Research." No, You Haven’t. You Just Googled It.
A short rant. Or a plea. Or both.
leadership
The Manager's README: A Practice in Radical Honesty and Leadership Evolution
The Manager's README isn't just documentation—it's a mirror that creates accountability between your leadership intentions and actions, fostering trust through visible growth and authentic imperfection.
Essays
We Do This to Ourselves
How democratic erosion begins—in politics, at work, and in us
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The Totalitarian Self: When Your Perspective Becomes Reality
We know what a total is. We know what a sum total is: the bringing together of distinct elements through addition. A sum requires multiple numbers, multiple measurements, combined to give us a fuller picture of value, weight, or meaning. The Singular Measure Now imagine a case where the only
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The Slow Unraveling of Democracy
Democracy doesn't collapse overnight—it frays gradually, worn down by those who disengage and those who refuse to listen. But why are people checking out? Is American polarization driven by broken political structures that reward division, or does it reflect genuinely incompatible visions that canno