Ivan Palomino
@ivanpalomino
Behavioral Designer | Host of the Growth Hacking Culture Podcast | Founder of PeopleKult | Author | On a mission of building awesome work cultures More on
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?...
"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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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
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)
"Obsolescence is not a birthday. It's a decision — yours or theirs." The behavioral science guide for 50+ professionals who refuse to be sidelined. €0.99 this weekend only 👇 amzn.eu/d/0faTpE4S
Il y a un moment précis. Pas un licenciement. Juste une réunion — à laquelle ton nom n'était plus sur la liste. Et personne ne t'a rien dit. (1/2)... ça continue
When someone tells you everything is fine and it isn't, your brain fires a conflict alert. That signal doesn't disappear because someone smiled. It gets suppressed. It is not burnout from overwork. Burnout from managing the gap between what you feel and what you're allowed to say.
The brain doesn't distinguish between "I might get eaten by a lion" and "I don't know if this career move is right." Same threat response. Same paralysis. Which is why smart people spend months avoiding decisions that take minutes to make once they actually make them.
The meeting that solved nothing took 90 minutes. The walk that solved it took 20. Same problem. Different outcome. Your brain has a mode that activates during movement and rest — not during meetings. A 20-minute walk before a hard problem increases creative output by 60%.
Leaving corporate at 45+ isn't harder than at 30. But the old reflexes have had longer to stick. The approval loop is more automatic. The risk aversion more practiced. The rewiring doesn't need more effort. It needs more consistency. Small repeated actions. Real experiments. Honest data.
Something happens quietly in your 50s at work. Still delivering. Still reliable. Still the most experienced person in the room. But something has gone flat. It's not burnout. Not age. (thread)
Rebuild happiness after 50+ at work: → Stop waiting for feedback. Create your own signals — mentoring, visible projects, conversations that change someone's direction. → Reinvest in relationships deliberately. One genuine connection changes the neurological equation entirely.
85% of employees report staying silent about something that could have made a real difference. That's not a few anxious people. 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐬.
Kipling wrote If in 1895. No leadership frameworks. No TED talks. Just a list of things that are still the hardest to actually do: Keep your head when others lose theirs. Trust yourself when others doubt you. Wait without being tired by waiting. Everything we call leadership development.
The club exists everywhere. Leadership teams burying bad decisions. Departments covering for colleagues. Managers who knew. Who always knew. And said nothing. We call it loyalty. It's complicity. And the longer you practice it, the more it becomes who you are.
There is a specific type of colleague who believes the rules of the workplace apply to everyone except them. They're not your boss. They're not your best performer. They're just absolutely convinced they deserve more than everyone else. And somehow — nobody has told them otherwise.
The most dangerous leaders 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧'𝐭 the ones you can see coming. They're not the ones who slam doors or send aggressive emails. They're the ones who give a speech about psychological safety on Monday and humiliate someone in a meeting on Tuesday. And smile through both.
The day-long brainstorm is the most expensive way a company has invented to make introverts feel bad about themselves. And produce three usable ideas. Stress kills creativity. The loudest voice wins. The best idea goes home unspoken. There's a better way. It's called thinking alone first.
The "AI Layoff" is the new corporate smoke screen. It’s the ultimate form of AI-washing. Companies are firing thousands of people and blaming "AI integration" to trigger a stock bump. It's often just a cover for poor management or a desperate grab for short-term valuation.
Our brain believes that the situation is unique. BUT IT ISN’T. It has happened. We call it cycles... where humanity is lost, greed surges, and then we forget... Try that this time we don’t forget.
For too long, corporate education has been treated as a checkbox exercise. My mission has always been to challenge that status quo by applying behavioral science to the way we learn. I am honored to be part of the Top 50 Global Thought Leaders on Education 2026 by Thinkers360
Culture isn't an art. It is a science of micro-habits. I spoke with CanvasRebel about making the workplace more human and why traditional training fails our brains. Reflecting on the journey so far. Full interview here: canvasrebel.com/meet-ivan-pa...
Is your team winning, or just survival of the fittest? Most managers think they are fostering "healthy competition." In reality, they are presiding over a slow-motion collapse of psychological safety.
I remember sitting in a leadership meeting three years ago. The room wanted a scapegoat for a delayed project. My project lead was the target. I had a choice. Pass the blame or stand in the gap. (1/3)
The factory-style school is dead. We’ve spent centuries forcing kids to be human hard drives. Memorizing dates isn't learning. It’s a memory test. The real world needs critical thinkers, not people who can recite a textbook. We are failing our students by ignoring this.
Le harcèlement institutionnel: quand l'entreprise vous broie sans un mot. 🤯 Ce n'est pas un incident, c'est un système. Objectifs irréels, réorgas sans fin... Ton cerveau est en mode survie. Ton énergie s'épuise. Que vas-tu décider de faire pour te protéger ?