Banks Benitez

On my next professional chapter

Exploring new horizons

Personal Reflections

Running races

The elevated moment of a race

Uncharted Insider

The Insider - September 2023

On the flight to quality, satellite internet geopolitics, and people-pleasing leadership

Conscious Leadership

The costs of people-pleasing leadership

“Managing change is about upsetting people only at a rate that they can tolerate.”

Personal Reflections

The best hours of the year

The backcountry après everything

Climate

Satellite star wars

The disruption of satellite internet

Conscious Leadership

The flight to quality

What the flight to quality means for us

Uncharted Insider

The Insider - August 2023

On insurance, original thinking, main street businesses, and electrification

Climate

Unplanned obsolescence

Are we blindly choosing what’s electric over what’s resilient?

The potential in main street businesses

The largest transfer of wealth and businesses in human history.

Conscious Leadership

The challenge of original thinking

The more we consume advice as entertainment, the harder it is to hear our own voice.

Climate

The new paradigm of insurance

Climate change has forced us into a new paradigm for insurance.

Personal Reflections

Couple's retreat

Creating space for the most important conversations

Conscious Leadership

Your team is managing you

It’s less that leaders are managing their employees and more that their employees have figured out how to manage their leader.

Conscious Leadership

Optimizations vs. goals

"Everyone is sharpening their sword for the battle that's never going to come.”

Impact

The dangers of concept creep

When concept creep gets out of control

Personal Reflections

Co-working with Family

On co-working with my dad

Uncharted Insider

The Insider - July 2023

On leadership, concept creep, and optimizations vs. goals, and family business

Conscious Leadership

Can AI usher in the 4-day workweek?

Are AI-generated productivity gains enough to mainstream a 4-day workweek?

Uncharted Insider

The Insider - June 2023

On what needs to change, AI & the job market, climate fintech research, and Fes, Morocco.

Personal Reflections

The psychology of architecture

Choose the environments that shape us into the people we want to become.

AI & the job market

60% of the jobs in America today didn’t exist in 1940

Conscious Leadership

On Strategic Planning

“All organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they get.”

Uncharted Insider

The Insider - May 2023

On defining reality, the pendulum swings of nuance, rising insurance premiums due to climate change, and a marriage ceremony

Climate

Insurance risk: Climate change's canary

The effects of climate change are causing an economic crisis for insurance companies.