Welcome to The Legacy Builders — a special feature series I’ve created as Co-Editor of BE Magazine’s Work section. I launched this series to spotlight women who are doing more than showing up for a job — they’re leading with conviction, building with purpose, and using their work to leave something that lasts.

the bigger culprit is our growing aversion to the messy middle of persevering through the hard work that’s often riddled with failures on our journey to success.  One of the dangers of AI is its ability to produce fast results.  Today it takes very little expertise creating AI prompts to “ChatGPT” a business plan in seconds or create an illustration of a garden.  It takes very little effort to skip the messy middle entirely.  Why wait months, weeks, days or even hours when you can have what you want in minutes?

Hang around offices and boardrooms long enough and you’re bound to hear buzzwords like “purpose,” “impact,” and “disruptive” being tossed around. But did you know that long before these terms were trendy, one 18th-century entrepreneur was literally living them out. His name was Arthur Guinness: founder of the 260-year-old beer brand we know today as Guinness.

Irrespective of where you’ve worked, at some point in your life, you’ve probably heard the phrase ‘Hope is not a strategy’ – meaning that hope is nothing more than a ‘passive, blind desire that a certain thing will happen’. By this definition, hope is the sad state of being you grasp for when you can’t act.

Irrespective of where you’ve worked, at some point in your life, you’ve probably heard the phrase ‘Hope is not a strategy’ – meaning that hope is nothing more than a ‘passive, blind desire that a certain thing will happen’. By this definition, hope is the sad state of being you grasp for when you can’t act.