Banks Benitez

Personal Reflections

Our relationship to time

What kind of approach to time does this moment call for?

Impact

Giving away Patagonia

Our legal structures drive organizational outcomes.

Uncharted Insider

The Insider - September 2022

On Patagonia, our relationship to time, sincerity, the 4-day workweek, and brothers

2022

Employee Surveillance

It’s far easier to police performance than it is to inspire performance.

2022

Trust in Virtual Spaces

Is remote work slowing the accrual of trust?

2022

On the Medium and the Message

The medium dictates the message in collaborative, organizational spaces.

Personal Reflections

Returning Home, The Future of Work

Officing with my dad

2022

The Insider - August 2022 (Future of Work edition)

On our obsession with productivity, the medium & the message, and trust in virtual spaces.

2022

That Peculiar Infinity

Lessons in humility.

2022

New Course on the 4-Day Workweek

Releasing an online course that guides leaders through a comprehensive, step-by-step process to design, plan, pilot, and evaluate a 4-Day Workweek

2022

On Deconstructionism

To be a constructionist in an era of deconstructionism.

Impact

On the Burden of Awareness

Accepting the finite scope of our capacity.

Uncharted Insider

The Insider - July 2022

On the burden of awareness, deconstructionist cultures inside organizations, and the 4-Day Workweek

Personal Reflections

On Family History

There is always another story, waiting to be surfaced, ready to come up for air.

Conscious Leadership

On Servant Leadership

What starts with a belief that we can be superhuman often ends with the realization that we are nothing more than human.

Impact

On Regenerative Work

We’ve designed our working lives the way we’ve designed our industrial farms.

Impact

On Frontiers

Web3 and the behavior of frontiers

Uncharted Insider

The Insider - June 2022

On crypto frontiers, servant leadership, regenerative work, and father-son trips.

Conscious Leadership

On Letting Go

Walking out of the Uncharted office for the last time.

2022

The Burnout Age

When we credit burnout to busy seasons or to remote work or the pandemic, we’re letting ourselves off the hook.

Impact

On Accountability

Our society is simultaneously characterized by wildly disproportionate accountability for trivial transgressions and zero accountability for profound institutional failure.

2022

On Manipulation

The more short-term our thinking, the easier we are to manipulate

2022

The Insider - May 2022

On social enterprise funding models, social media, burnout, and letting go and moving on from Uncharted.

2022

Uncharted Insider - April 2022 (Special Edition)

Uncharted has merged with Common Future

Conscious Leadership

Reflections 10 Years In

Reflections on leadership 10 years into Uncharted