Banks Benitez

Leading Yourself First

Before you can lead anyone, you need to lead yourself.

How Nonprofit Accelerators Distort Markets

Nonprofit accelerators and fellowships are distorting markets.

Uncharted Insider - July 2019

Hi everyone, Welcome to the July edition of the Uncharted Insider. Uncharted Update: * Uncharted had its 2nd birthday! We turned two years old on July 25th! * We received 125 applications for the Futurebound Acceleration Lab [https://www.futureboundco.org/acceleration-lab] * We completed the Chipotle Aluminaries Project [https://uncharted.org/program/

Biomimicry and Leadership

I am a biomimicry nerd, which means I find myself searching for examples of how human systems can learn from the elegant, self-correcting dynamics of the natural world. There is biological brilliance in our midst, yet we often don’t look to a grove of aspen trees for lessons in

Psychology Underneath Strategy

We vastly underestimate the power that motives of self-preservation, safety, and security play in an organization’s strategic planning process. Underneath strategy, there is psychology.

CEO Mastermind

“Humans are good at relating ‘up’ where we assume the role of student and learn from a teacher, and humans are good at relating ‘down’ where we are the mentor and we seek out a mentee, but we are inexperienced at relating ‘across’ as peers.”