Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

I love this notion that money is a form of energy, but without purpose, it's pointless.

And as he has shared with us, part of his role in his job and the role of a family office is to help multi-age families identify what the true north or north star is, find the purpose.

And that isn't easy.

It requires a lot of alignment and it requires bringing people together.

But that's one of the fundamental aspects of the job and task.

And then, as he has told us, there can be no bigger investment than investment in people

people and as he started this conversation sharing with us the importance of culture and the various cultures that he has inhabited or passed through as we always think and say it all goes down to leadership so in that sense not too different from other industries and other leaders that we had in the show great conversation and hopefully some very very useful insights for all of you

What people want is that you bring your best self.

And yeah, sure, if you can identify with your professional persona so that it doesn't feel totally alien, that's good for you.

But what's rewarded at work is pro-social, competent behavior that serves others, not your ego.

It's great to be back.

Great to see you all.

Authenticity is usually celebrated or even worshiped, I would say often misunderstood and rarely defined.

And it is important to start with some proper definitions.

So we see our behavior as authentic if it is aligned with our values or if it's aligned with the person we think we are, so with our identity.

And we see other people's behavior as authentic when it seems genuine.

In fact, quite sort of obscure but beautiful and very simple definition of authenticity by Abraham Maslow, you know, the guy who gave us the pyramid of the hierarchy of needs, is that it's sort of a zero phoniness.

That's his definition of authenticity.

And by and large, you know, these definitions have cascaded how most people think about the implications of authenticity at work,

Don't worry about what people think of you.