Banks Benitez

How to begin a new year

When we bring our innocence, we find ourselves on solid ground.

Withholding Hard Truths

The quickest way to reduce your sense of self-importance (and increase your self-care) is to entrust the people around you with the difficult information you believe that only you can handle.

Leadership and Being Misunderstood

If you can't tolerate being misunderstood, then you can't be trusted to make long-term decisions.

Accountability in an Age of Victimization

Victimization culture externalizes responsibility. Ownership culture internalizes responsibility.

Shaping Space vs. Taking Up Space

Ego-driven leadership takes up space. Fragile leadership holds space. Brave leadership shapes space.

The Artistic Soul of an Organization

Being purpose-driven is no stand-in for an organization’s soul.