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The Signals We Want

It's frightening how the same signal we seek to live is one we wish to avoid for living.

EssaysDaniel LeeJuly 3, 2019OMD VenturesBusiness

The Leader Evolves: Financial to People Allocation

With the transition from the industrial age to the internet age, the iconoclasts will come in their ability to allocate people.

EssaysDaniel LeeJune 25, 2019OMD VenturesBusiness

Questioning Defaults In Life

What are the things in life we choose to accept as the default setting? Have you asked yourself what settings in your own life you've left as the default option rather than deliberately setting it to the option you want?

EssaysDaniel LeeJune 18, 2019OMD VenturesCareers

Happiness is Like a Cloud

Nearly a year and a half into my journey, the most common question I get asked from friends, colleagues and family is: "Are you at least happy?"

EssaysDaniel LeeJune 11, 2019OMD VenturesIntrospection

I'll be Ready When I Need To Be. No Time Is Wasted To Get There.

How a book made me cry and I needed all five years to get to this point.

EssaysDaniel LeeJune 4, 2019OMD VenturesHabits

Most Who Wander Are Lost.

The neglected question is: Do you know where you are and why you are wandering?

EssaysDaniel LeeMay 28, 2019OMD VenturesIntrospection

I'm Not Qualified For Anything. None of Us Are.

Qualifications: A barrier, a crutch, an excuse and/or a misinterpretation.

EssaysDaniel LeeMay 21, 2019OMD VenturesCareers

Retiring Without Realizing It

By 25, I think most people have retired.

EssaysDaniel LeeMay 14, 2019OMD VenturesCareers

Quantifying Return on People

It’s time to update the financial rules to put what truly matters at the center.

EssaysDaniel LeeMay 7, 2019OMD VenturesBusiness

Entrepreneurs are Risk-Averse. Employees are Risk-Takers.

A point of view on risk and how people get it wrong with their career.

EssaysDaniel LeeApril 30, 2019OMD VenturesCareers

Moments When You Start Seeing

Understanding could only get me so far and it was in the unprompted moments of stillness that I could embrace a new reality.

EssaysDaniel LeeApril 23, 2019OMD VenturesCareers

Diversity for an Effective Organization. It's Not What They Think.

How do you scale human capital? You don't. At least, not if you're trying to make a high performing organization.

EssaysDaniel LeeApril 16, 2019OMD VenturesBusiness

Scaling Human Capital

How do you scale human capital? You don't. At least, not if you're trying to make a high performing organization.

EssaysDaniel LeeApril 9, 2019OMD VenturesBusiness

To Myself of Five Years Ago Today.

I would tell my 21 year old self: "Be more disagreeable. Don't seek permission because it'll just cause you pain. "

EssaysDaniel LeeApril 2, 2019OMD VenturesIntrospection

Three Freedoms That Come Before Financial Freedom

An obsessive desire for financial freedom shows a lack of self-awareness.

EssaysDaniel LeeMarch 26, 2019OMD VenturesCareers

Taxing the Rich More Will Not Solve Anything

Overtaxing the rich is the fastest way to ruin the economy and society at large.

EssaysDaniel LeeMarch 19, 2019OMD VenturesCareers

Coffee Shop Wallflower - Peak into Korean Business Culture

A glimpse into Korean work culture from a coffeeshop conversation.

EssaysDaniel LeeMarch 12, 2019OMD VenturesIntrospection

Defining "success" watching Karl Lagerfeld

Karl Lagerfeld died two days after I learned about him.

EssaysDaniel LeeMarch 5, 2019OMD VenturesIntrospection

My 10 Learnings from Charlie Munger from the 2019 Daily Journal Corporation Shareholder Meeting

Charles Koch says he wanted to stand on the shoulders of giants and I spend my Saturday night standing on the shoulder of a 95 year old man in a wheelchair.

EssaysDaniel LeeFebruary 26, 2019OMD VenturesIntrospection

Why specialized careers will halt innovation

Interesting people will change the world, not the specialized majority.

EssaysDaniel LeeFebruary 19, 2019OMD VenturesCareers