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Ivan Palomino

@ivanpalomino.bsky.social
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Behavioral Designer | Host of the Growth Hacking Culture Podcast | Founder of PeopleKult | Author | On a mission of building awesome work cultures More on linktr.ee/ivanpalomino

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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Your IT department is still drafting the AI policy. Anna Berkman's clients already automated half their job without asking anyone. The gap was never skill. It's permission. New episode on what you can actually do with AI without waiting for IT youtu.be/DLHRk1XR45A
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The Practical AI Tools You Can Use Right Now to Save Hours at Work | Anna Berkman
YouTube video by Growth Hacking Culture
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Great news for my new book Expired? . It got into the Amazon best sellers. I made the ebook free until Sunday a.co/d/01y2faIb
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The failure was never the problem. What you decided it meant about you, that's the part nobody goes back and checks. What's the one you're still carrying? My chat with Melisa Buie in the GHC podcast youtu.be/FzUZnKqLTlo?...
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Why Failure Actually Makes You a Better Manager | Dr. Melisa Buie
YouTube video by Growth Hacking Culture
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Certains collègues livraient moins qu'Alain. Ils étaient plus écoutés, plus influents, plus considérés. 20 ans avant de comprendre pourquoi. "Un secret très bien gardé". Et ceux qui le connaissent ne le partagent pas. www.linkedin.com/pulse/il-liv...
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Il livrait dans les temps et dans le budget. Personne ne le voyait.
Tes projets avancent, tes résultats sont solides. Pourtant tu es invisible. Alain Bonnebault explique ce que personne ne t'apprendra jamais spontanément.
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
For 50 years we hired, rewarded, and promoted intelligence. Now intelligence is free. Available on demand. In seconds. The high achievers who never needed resilience are the most exposed. Not the underperformers. The top talent. Bruce D. Randall calls it The End of Smart. He is right.
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Why You're Losing to AI (And How to Pivot Right Now) by Bruce D. Randall
YouTube video by Growth Hacking Culture
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
At 30 I thought speed was everything. At 45 I started something new and the first thing I noticed was how calm I felt. Turns out scar tissue becomes judgment. The data agrees.
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I used to think staying quiet made me neutral. It didn't. It just meant I let it happen. Why we get interrupted (it's about power, not manners) and what stops it: youtu.be/IeyyJCZRYDU?...
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The Psychology of Being Interrupted: Why It Happens and How to Fix It
YouTube video by Growth Hacking Culture
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"J'ai 20 ans d'expérience" → personne ne t'écoute. "Quand une organisation est en crise, je reconnais les signaux 2 trimestres avant que ça explose" → tout le monde t'écoute. Même valeur. Traduction différente. www.linkedin.com/pulse/de-lin...
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De l'invisible à l'indispensable: la stratégie Vintage à 50 ans
Ton expérience ne parle pas d'elle-même. Découvre comment traduire 20 ans de valeur en proposition concrète pour redevenir indispensable.
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
40% of company failures trace back to leadership, not the product. Not strategy. Not market fit. The person at the top. Dane Hudson on why the accountability gap almost always starts with the CEO — and why it's invisible until the damage is done.
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Why Your Leadership Is The Biggest Risk To Your Company | Dane Hudson
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Two sisters were about to lose their family business. Not to competition. To not knowing why it existed. A psychologist spent two days with their team until someone said the real reason out loud: joyful eating. 3 years later, they sold it without losing a single customer. youtu.be/4eSlqDNksvM?...
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AI Is a Rehearsal Room for Hard Conversations, Not a Hiding Place | Sarah Rozenthuler
YouTube video by Growth Hacking Culture
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
A Head of People told me her AI adoption was stuck at 20%. Her fix: more training. I asked if she'd ever asked her team what they were afraid of. Long pause. No. That's most AI strategies right now. Full data live Thursday: luma.com/x10qnpqq
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The 7 Fears: What Employees Actually Think About AI · Luma
⚠️ Limited to 40 senior HR leaders · Free · Recording sent to all registrants 36,165 employees told us what they fear about AI at work. Not in a survey. Not…
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Your 50-year-old brain isn't obsolete. It's operating on different parameters. Organizations built for 25-year-olds don't see it. Périmé? and Expired? change how you think about that. 📖 a.co/d/06LiyPJ3
Expired? The science of staying indispensable when your company bets on youth.
You have 20+ years of experience, crisis scars you earned the hard way, and contextual intelligence no algorithm can replicate. And somewhere in the last two years, the room got quieter.

There's a name for it now. Quiet firing. No conversation, no performance review, no decision anyone will put in writing. Just a slow narrowing of what you get asked to do.

Here's what the science actually shows: the problem isn't your age. It's your operating system.
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Craving legacy post-45 but hesitating to leap? Typical excuses: "I'll have time later." "Gotta focus on earning first." "My part's too small." Wake up call: Impact's for YOU, not them. Living your values, fueling something greater - that's the real transformation. Makes you real.
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I talked to a psychologist who studied hundreds of teams. Submarines, gymnasts, startups. The teams that win aren't the most talented. They're the ones that believe they can figure it out together. Andre Martin in the GHC podcast: youtu.be/prBzkWATisE?...
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Your "A-Players" Strategy Is Failing. Here's What Actually Works | André Martin
YouTube video by Growth Hacking Culture
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
50-70% of executives fail within 18 months of a new role. 89% of those failures are not technical. The problem is not the person. It is the evidence used to choose them. This week on Simply Human 👇 simplyhuman.substack.com/p/what-if-yo...
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What If Your Company Has Been Promoting the Wrong People All Along?
Most talent systems measure where people have been. Almost none measure what they can hold going forward.
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
58 ans. Plan social. Multinationale. Tout le monde attendait qu'il "rebondisse" vers le conseil ou l'entrepreneuriat. Il s'est inscrit en science politique. Ses camarades avaient 19 ans. Il prenait ses notes à la main. Il vient d'obtenir son Master: Riwal Ferry. www.linkedin.com/pulse/riwal-...
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Riwal n'a pas "rebondi". Il a fait quelque chose de bien plus rare.
Je connais Riwal depuis 2011. On s'est croisés dans ce monde un peu particulier du marketing et des études de marché, ce milieu où les gens restent souvent dans l'ombre de leurs livrables: des dizaine...
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
In a world obsessed with the new, wisdom is workplace rebellion. → Your experience, your superpower. → Ageism, leapable. → Vulnerability, the new strong. → Mentorship, a dual exchange. Your career? A lattice. Traverse with agility.
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Block employees describe entire engineering and support teams eliminated. The logic: AI can do the same work with fewer people. They call it silent layoffs. One after another. Highest job displacement score of any company in our entire dataset. Not the story Dorsey tells on stage.
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
We go looking for purpose the same way we grocery shop while hungry. Reaching for whatever fills us fastest. It never nourishes us. Here is what to do instead. 👉 simplyhuman.substack.com/p/what-if-yo...
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What If You’ve Been Searching for Purpose in All the Wrong Places?
On self-awareness, burnout, and why clarity beats certainty every time
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Your brain stitches chaos into a story and calls it a career plan. Then it looks forward and demands the next chapter follow the same line. Every deviation gets filed under: failure. Except the detour was usually the part that was actually yours. www.linkedin.com/pulse/myth-l...
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The Myth of the Linear Path
The linear career path was always a story your brain told you. Psychology, dopamine, and the detours that were never mistakes.
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A warehouse worker in our data got flagged for "excessive break time." The break was a bathroom trip. No manager reviewed it. The algorithm just decided. Nobody built that system to be cruel. Someone decided cruelty was cheaper than oversight. That's the fear nobody names. Soon. 👇
AI didn't decide this. Human did. Event by Culturama
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
On September 10, I'm hosting The Culture Signal, a live session decoding the 7 real fears employees have about AI at work, straight from data on 20 million employee voices. 60 minutes, virtual, limited to 40 senior HR leaders. Join me! luma.com/x10qnpqq
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The Culture Signal: What Your Employees Actually Fear About the AI Age · Luma
⚠️ Limited to 40 senior HR leaders · Free · Recording sent to all registrants 36,165 employees told us what they fear about AI at work. Not in a survey. Not…
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Every AI fear your employees have maps to a documented mechanism in behavioural science. Job security triggers survival mode. Skills obsolescence kills competence. Surveillance strips autonomy. No training module fixes that. www.peoplekult.com/post/psychol...
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The Psychology of AI Fear at Work | What Behavioural Science Says HR Should Do
Your employees are not afraid of AI. They are afraid of what you are not telling them.Somewhere right now, a senior HR leader is approving a budget for an AI literacy training programme. The slides ar...
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
13,004 employees wrote about AI surveillance at work. Keystroke tracking. Webcam photos every few minutes. Dashcams flagging drivers for yawning. That's the #1 AI fear. Not job loss. Full breakdown live Sept 10. Free session for senior HR 🧵 lu.ma/x10qnpqq
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The Culture Signal: What Your Employees Actually Fear About the AI Age · Luma
⚠️ Limited to 40 senior HR leaders · Free · Recording sent to all registrants 36,165 employees told us what they fear about AI at work. Not in a survey. Not…
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
I waited years to leave corporate. "Not yet. Wait until things settle down." They never did. Reorg. One more project that needed me. I wasn't being strategic. I was being protected by my own nervous system. The right moment isn't a date. It's a story your brain tells you to keep you still.
The right moment isn't a date. It's a story your brain tells you to keep you still. Ivan Palomino
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
"Motivation became an explanation for outcomes when sometimes it's about access." Celeste Warren, said this in her TED Talk and I haven't stopped thinking about it. Standing still isn't neutral. It has a cost. We just normalized who pays it.
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The moment you become someone's boss, people start filtering what they tell you. Not always out of fear. Sometimes out of love, they don't want to hurt you. Either way, the truth stops reaching you. Quietly. Without asking. Interview with Nik Kinley👇 youtu.be/7Yxc9gswbRM?...
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The Neuroscience of Power: Why Leaders Lose Empathy
YouTube video by Growth Hacking Culture
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
What If the Most Underrated Brain in the Room Belongs to a Gen X? The fears, the wiring, and why the generation nobody talks about anymore is the one organisations cannot afford to ignore open.substack.com/pub/simplyhu...
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What If the Most Underrated Brain in the Room Belongs to a Gen X?
The fears, the wiring, and why the generation nobody talks about anymore is the one organisations cannot afford to ignore
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Engineers aren't bad at empathy. Tell one to "be more empathetic" and there's nothing to execute. Give the same person a repeatable process, pause, ask, consider, respond, and it clicks faster than people who assumed they had it naturally. youtu.be/Xmjm4fT5lsg
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Why Brilliant Engineers Get Passed Over for Promotions | Colette Molteni
YouTube video by Growth Hacking Culture
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Ce que je dirais à mes 20 ans si je pouvais: La peur d'être jugé m'a coûté bien plus cher que d'être jugé. Le silence, ça se paie. Juste plus tard. 25 ans à apprendre ça. 🎙️ Interview complète sur Pas encore périmé youtu.be/Yq5mrJROQu8?...
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Mon plus grand échec, ce n'est pas d'avoir craqué en 2018. C'est d'avoir tenu trop longtemps. Je me répétais "j'ai besoin de ce job." C'était pas un besoin. C'était une laisse. J'en parle dans "Pas encore périmés !" 🎧 youtu.be/Yq5mrJROQu8?...
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Il transformait des organisations internationales, aujourd’hui il aide les gens à se reconstruire
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The smarter you are, the better your excuses get. Not excuses you know are excuses. Airtight explanations for why what you decided was actually correct. The people most at risk are usually the most confident they are immune. www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-sm...
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Why Smart Leaders Make Bad Decisions (And Don't Know It)
The smarter you are, the better you justify bad decisions. Why intelligence alone fails smart leaders and what actually breaks the pattern.
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
"Tu dois te réinventer." On te le répète depuis cinq ans. Coachs, conférences, articles du dimanche soir. Mauvais conseil. Ton expérience n'est pas un bug à corriger. C'est ton OS. www.linkedin.com/pulse/le-mid...
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Le Midlife Edit: ce qu'on garde, ce qu'on lâche, ce qui redevient possible
Découvrez pourquoi se réinventer à 50 ans est le mauvais conseil, et comment le Midlife Edit change tout. Abonnez-vous à Redoutable !
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Your engagement survey can only return answers to questions you already knew to ask. The real driver of your turnover probably never made it onto the form. New Growth Hacking Culture episode on what diagnosing actually looks like versus measuring 👇 youtu.be/Lw897eYuUTg?...
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Your Employee Engagement Survey Is Lying to You | Dustin Snyder
YouTube video by Growth Hacking Culture
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Tu n'as pas raté cette opportunité par manque de compétences. Tu as laissé une phrase décider à ta place. "Mon meilleur temps est derrière moi." Ce n'est pas une analyse. C'est une croyance. Et ton cerveau trouve chaque jour les preuves qu'elle est vraie. Nouvel article de Redoutable 👇
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Les trois croyances à 50 ans qui te bloquent (et comment les identifier par écrit)
Découvrez les trois croyances qui bloquent les pros de 50 ans et comment les identifier par écrit pour reprendre le contrôle. Abonnez-vous à Redoutable !
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
"AI cannot have purpose." Because it reframes everything. The question was never whether AI replaces us. It's whether we choose to become more human while using it. Critical thinking. Empathy. Purpose. Invest there. Now.
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
6 culture traps killing your best managers: 1 Promoted for the wrong reason 2 Thrown in without preparation 3 Measured only on output 4 No safe space to struggle 5 Stuck between two worlds 6 No career path without managing people The bottleneck isn't the manager. It's the system that created them.
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"We are colluding with the system we are trying to fight." Dr. Kat Page on why your wellbeing programme is treating symptoms while the design keeps producing the damage. New episode 👇 youtu.be/5apCZ3uJ9j8?...
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Stop Fixing Your People. Start Fixing Work. | Dr. Kat Page
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
"Self-care, as it's currently sold, asks depleted people to add things. But depletion is precisely the condition in which adding things is least possible." The biggest myth about burnout recovery: that there's a finish line. There isn't. simplyhuman.substack.com/p/what-if-ev...
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What If Everything You Know About Burnout Is Making It Worse?
The myths we keep believing and what burnout recovery actually looks like, from someone who wrote a book on it
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
"L'absurde, c'est la raison lucide qui constate ses limites." — Camus À 50 ans, ce moment arrive. Une réunion sans toi. Un projet confié à un plus jeune. Un silence là où il y avait de la reconnaissance. Ce n'est pas la fin de la raison. C'est la raison qui devient enfin lucide.
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The most dangerous leader isn't the one who shouts. It's the one who gives a psychological safety speech on Monday and humiliates someone in a meeting on Tuesday. And smiles through both.
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Nobody warns you about this part of starting fresh at 50. The market isn't the hard part. The competition isn't the hard part. It's discovering how much of what you thought was you was actually just the corporate system you'd been running inside. You don't start over at 50. You translate.
At 50 you finally know what you want. The question is whether you'll stop waiting for the right moment to go get it.
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Brilliant people do not burn out despite their potential. They burn out because of it. The gap between capability and output creates shame. Shame kills executive function. The harder you push, the less you can do. It is not discipline. It is neurology. open.spotify.com/episode/6Xvf...
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The Shame Loop Keeping Smart People Stuck | Burnout, Executive Function & Breaking Free ft. Frankie Berkoben
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
La peur de ne plus être à la hauteur ne te paralyse pas directement. Elle te pousse à te mettre en retrait. À ne plus proposer. Et petit à petit, elle confirme ce que tu craignais. Ta valeur n'a pas de date de péremption. Mais le silence, lui, en a une. www.linkedin.com/pulse/la-peu...
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La peur silencieuse à 50 ans: ce que tu ne dis à personne
Découvrez pourquoi la peur silencieuse vous paralyse au travail après 50 ans et comment la nommer pour reprendre le contrôle. Abonnez-vous à Redoutable !
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Most HR leaders never make CHRO. Not from lack of skill. They mistake competence for readiness. The gap isn't technical. It's mindset. My chat with Tom Emery 👇 youtu.be/cWAjJuxotpI?...
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Why Most HR Leaders Never Become CHROs (And What the Best Ones Do Differently) | Tom Emery
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Low AI adoption isn't a training problem. It's a trust problem wearing a training problem's clothes. 31% of employees admit to quietly undermining AI rollouts. That's not resistance. That's a culture signal. My article on people managing people peoplemanagingpeople.com/hr-operation...
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Your AI Rollout Is a Cultural X-Ray. Most Leaders Aren't Looking.
Learn how an AI rollout reveals hidden culture issues, from trust and psychological safety to leadership bottlenecks, and what leaders should do next.
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The #1 predictor of attrition isn't compensation. It's not benefits. It's not even the manager. It's a signal that shows up 6 months before someone quits. I'm sharing the full data live next Thur (June 25, 11am GMT+2). luma.com/zecxv9sn
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
La mise à l'écart ne commence pas par un licenciement. Elle commence par une réunion. Une invitation. Un nom qui n'y est plus. Et personne ne dit rien. Je lance Redoutable, une newsletter pour les 50+ qui refusent l'invisibilité. www.linkedin.com/pulse/le-mar...
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Le mardi matin où ton nom n'était pas sur l'invitation
Découvrez comment la mise à l'écart silencieuse commence au travail après 50 ans et une action concrète pour reprendre le contrôle. Abonnez-vous à Redoutable !
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Quiet quitting doesn’t start with a resignation letter. It starts about six months earlier with signals most HR dashboards aren’t built to see. open.substack.com/pub/simplyhu...
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What Employees Say Before They Quit (And Why Nobody’s Listening)
The signals show up six months early. Almost nobody is looking for them.
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Ivan Palomino @ivanpalomino.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
5 phrases de mon livre Périmé ? qui résument ce que les pros 50+ entendent rarement à voix haute 👇 "On ne te licencie pas. On te rend invisible." "Ton cerveau à 50 ans n'est pas en déclin. Il a changé de registre." (1/2)
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