Banks Benitez

Conscious Leadership

On attention spans

What medium do we want to become most like?

Impact

The need for context

It is context that's missing from our online spaces

Conscious Leadership

On a bias for inaction

Exploring the power of doing less

Uncharted Insider

The Insider - October 2023

On my next professional chapter, the game of leadership, and the courageous middle ground

Conscious Leadership

The courageous middle

What games have I unwittingly entered whose expectations and rules I am now following?

The leadership game

The best leaders are often skilled game designers

On my next professional chapter

Exploring new horizons

Personal Reflections

Running races

The elevated moment of a race

Uncharted Insider

The Insider - September 2023

On the flight to quality, satellite internet geopolitics, and people-pleasing leadership

Conscious Leadership

The costs of people-pleasing leadership

“Managing change is about upsetting people only at a rate that they can tolerate.”

Personal Reflections

The best hours of the year

The backcountry après everything

Climate

Satellite star wars

The disruption of satellite internet

Conscious Leadership

The flight to quality

What the flight to quality means for us

Uncharted Insider

The Insider - August 2023

On insurance, original thinking, main street businesses, and electrification

Climate

Unplanned obsolescence

Are we blindly choosing what’s electric over what’s resilient?

The potential in main street businesses

The largest transfer of wealth and businesses in human history.

Conscious Leadership

The challenge of original thinking

The more we consume advice as entertainment, the harder it is to hear our own voice.

Climate

The new paradigm of insurance

Climate change has forced us into a new paradigm for insurance.

Personal Reflections

Couple's retreat

Creating space for the most important conversations

Conscious Leadership

Your team is managing you

It’s less that leaders are managing their employees and more that their employees have figured out how to manage their leader.

Conscious Leadership

Optimizations vs. goals

"Everyone is sharpening their sword for the battle that's never going to come.”

Impact

The dangers of concept creep

When concept creep gets out of control

Personal Reflections

Co-working with Family

On co-working with my dad

Uncharted Insider

The Insider - July 2023

On leadership, concept creep, and optimizations vs. goals, and family business

Conscious Leadership

Can AI usher in the 4-day workweek?

Are AI-generated productivity gains enough to mainstream a 4-day workweek?