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1 week ago | 
solutionsreview.com | Paula Caligiuri
Most tech professionals are open to feedback; they just don't get enough of it, early enough, or clearly enough to grow from it. In fast-paced tech environments, your skills will get you in the door. But it's your willingness to keep learning, especially from others, that determines how far you go. That's humility. Not the passive kind. Not self-deprecation. But the active kind: seeking feedback, recognizing what you don't know, and adjusting based on what you hear.
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2 weeks ago | 
solutionsreview.com | Paula Caligiuri
In tech, independence is often worn like armor. You can debug it, deploy it, document it, and do it all without needing help. But over time, that same independence can become isolating. And in high-complexity, high-velocity environments, that will cap your impact. According to our April 2025 report, 85 percent of tech professionals say relationship-building is very important.
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3 weeks ago | 
solutionsreview.com | Paula Caligiuri
Tech teams are full of brilliant people. Experts who solve problems fast, think analytically and back up their decisions with data. But that brilliance can become a blind spot. According to our April 2025 report, 84 percent of tech professionals say perspective-taking is critical, yet 25 percent struggle to reconcile conflicting viewpoints. More telling still: 29 percent believe their own perspective is generally the most effective, even on diverse, cross-functional teams.
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3 weeks ago | 
mba.co.za | Paula Caligiuri |Melissa Torres |Marissa Lombardi
Study abroad experiences are more likely to lead to meaningful growth if students have opportunities to stretch, connect, and reflect.
Students stretch their understanding of other cultures when they live with host families, attend school with host nationals, and observe how the rhythms of daily life play out in business relationships.
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4 weeks ago | 
solutionsreview.com | Paula Caligiuri
The most successful tech teams aren't the ones that avoid failure. They're the ones that recover fast, learn, and keep moving. In tech, setbacks are part of the job. The last-minute rollback. The AI model behaves beautifully in testing and then collapses in production. The promising feature gets killed because business priorities shift yet again. These are part of the job. But what happens after the failure? That's where the gap shows up. Some people rebound. Others stall or ruminate.
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1 month ago | 
chiefexecutive.net | Paula Caligiuri |Nada Sanders
In a world captivated by rapid advancements in artificial intelligence, it’s easy to assume that hard, technical skills—like coding, data analytics and robotics—will dominate in the future of work. But here’s the paradox: As technology advances, soft skills—the ones that have historically been considered secondary or “nice-to-have”—are becoming the real differentiators for success.
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1 month ago | 
aacsb.edu | Paula Caligiuri |Melissa Torres |Marissa Lombardi
Study abroad experiences are more likely to lead to meaningful growth if students have opportunities to stretch, connect, and reflect.
Students stretch their understanding of other cultures when they live with host families, attend school with host nationals, and observe how the rhythms of daily life play out in business relationships. As students connect with peers from different cultures, they learn to adjust their communication, leadership, and teamwork styles.
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1 month ago | 
solutionsreview.com | Paula Caligiuri
You'd think working in tech means you're surrounded by curiosity. After all, this is the industry built on questions: What if we automated this? Could this scale? What happens if we plug that into this? And yet, curiosity is quietly fading from daily work. According to our April 2025 report, a staggering 93 percent of tech professionals agree that curiosity is "very" or "extremely" important. But nearly half (47 percent) say they struggle to find the time to explore new tools, processes, or ideas.
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1 month ago | 
solutionsreview.com | Paula Caligiuri
If your team can't make a decision without a Jira ticket, a Slack thread, and three stand-ups, ambiguity might already be your biggest blocker. In a world that worships clarity, ambiguity is often treated like a bug to fix. But in tech-where the roadmap shifts, users are surprised, and AI rewrites the rules-ambiguity isn't an exception. It's the environment. According to our April 2025 study, 75 percent of tech leaders say tolerance for ambiguity is critical.
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1 month ago | 
solutionsreview.com | Paula Caligiuri
It's become trendy to say, "AI won't replace you, but someone who knows how to use it will." But here's a more urgent truth: The disruption that threatens most tech teams isn't artificial; it's human. We're racing into an AI-driven future with team members who are technically brilliant but emotionally brittle. They are curious, in theory, but time-starved in practice. They are demographically diverse but operating in their own echo chambers.
