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Beyond the CV: Why I Traded the Boardroom for My Own System & Values

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Most "About Me" pages are just boring! They usually follow a standard script: a list of university degrees, a chronological timeline of corporate titles, and a few polite sentences about "synergy". If you are looking for a standard CV, you can find them all on LinkedIn . There, you will see the "Head of XXX" the "Manager of YYY" and the corporate strategists of ZZZ etc. But if you are reading this, you aren't looking for another employee CV. You are looking for an exit strategy ! I am not here to impress you with my past titles. I am here to impress upon you a new architecture for living ! Asking for Permission Before we go further, I want to do something unusual. I am asking for your permission. I am not asking for permission to speak because I am going to do that anyway. But I am asking for your permission to challenge your reality. I am asking for your consent to act as a “consultant for your own freedom”. To guide you out of the "...

The "Massive Bank Account" MBA: Why Practical Skills Always Beat Degrees & Theoretical Knowledge

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Let’s look at the KPIs of the modern education system. If a university degree were a financial product sold on the open market, would you buy it based on its current ROI? (ROI = Return on Investment) You invest 3 to 5 years of Time or even more! (your most valuable and scarcest asset!) and tens of thousands in capital! In return, you receive a piece of paper that grants you entry into the lower levels of a corporate hierarchy. As a professional who has hired teams and managed end-to-end strategies, I have seen thousands of CVs. I have seen MBAs from prestigious universities . I have seen PhDs.. but some of the most richest humans on earth often have dropped out from university to pursue his own business ventures. Then when I attended an event where the speaker asked the following question in a room of 1000+ people: "How many of you are financially free because of their degree?" Nobody raised his hand! And I realized that I have asked myself the same question for multipl...

The Corporate Cage vs. The Castle: Why JOB Means "Just Over Broke"

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  Let’s visualize your current position. I want you to picture the Organigramm (Organizational Chart) of a big enterprise.  You have likely seen it in company presentations or HR on-boarding documents. It is often a pyramid. At the top, you have the C-Suite and the Board . Below them, the VPs . Then the Directors . Then the Managers . And then, somewhere near the bottom, buried in a sea of little boxes, the "Workers". As a former Director of Analytics , I spent years studying these structures. I optimized them for efficiency. And here is the data-driven truth I realized: The Organigramm is designed to extract value from you, not to deliver value to you. Inside that box, you have a ceiling on your income, a ceiling on your creativity, and a ceiling on your time. You are a line item in a spreadsheet. JOB = Just Over Broke We are conditioned to believe that a "Safe Job" is the ultimate goal. But let’s look at our "financiel results" or at least at the fo...