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Q4 2024 |Q1 2025 Book Reports
The last several months have been emotionally charged for me. I've been intentionally investing in more reading
Meg Bear
Mar 124 min read


Ask better questions
One of the things I’m most excited about in this Ambiguity Age is the realization that we are forced to ask better questions.
Meg Bear
Mar 112 min read


Retention is a terrible metric
The hard truth you need to hear
The labor market is expecting significant productivity gains in the next decade.
Meg Bear
Mar 52 min read





Galvanizing Action
An important part of transformation is the ability to get the flywheel moving and like the name implies, the initial cycles are really hard.
Meg Bear
Nov 25, 20244 min read


Inventing the Future
When we look at our world over the arc of time, we have to acknowledge that we have made a lot of progress.
Meg Bear
Nov 7, 20242 min read


The Future Is Interdisciplinary
Some of the innovations I’m most impressed with have not really been innovations at all – they have been deconstructions of prior innovation
Meg Bear
Oct 19, 20244 min read


The power in saying I don't know
One thing that set me back early in my career was being completely obtuse about how much people hate to admit they don't know.
Meg Bear
Sep 20, 20245 min read


The most important question
I feel very fortunate to have a strong belief that everything is figureoutable.
Meg Bear
Sep 12, 20243 min read


So this is how it works.
When I was around six years old, I became aware of gender imbalance.
Meg Bear
Aug 30, 20243 min read


Why you must start now
It’s hard to know how to innovate these days. Everything is a bit upside down.
Meg Bear
Aug 3, 20242 min read


Closing the Opportunity Gap
I graduated high school at 16, something that seemed completely normal to me at the time.
Meg Bear
Jun 15, 20244 min read


Admire out loud
There are so many amazing people – and so many things to admire.
Meg Bear
Jun 8, 20242 min read

Being Wrong
It’s great to know stuff – knowledge is power and the benefits of crystallized intelligence are many,
Meg Bear
Mar 27, 20242 min read


Asynchronous relationship building
The other day I was asked a question that gave me pause. It’s one I’ve been asked a lot in my career but I think given my sabbatical I’m mor
Meg Bear
Mar 23, 20243 min read


Perspective taking is hard
When I was in high school I spent summers with my dad in the bay area and school year in Arizona.
Meg Bear
Feb 29, 20242 min read

The Importance of Being Seen
I had the occasion this week to engage smart HR peeps on twitter to help me understand where they are landing on framing the future
Meg Bear
Oct 26, 20222 min read


It's Time to Re-Think Work
More than a decade ago I wrote an article for Workforce Magazine talking about what we would now call the gig economy.
Meg Bear
May 18, 20222 min read


Honor your gifts
I was recently in a work event where, for fun, we were reading our astrology based personality profiles.
Meg Bear
Nov 21, 20202 min read
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