You’re striving for something better, you’re trying to get your family, business, career, the people in your world, up to the next level. | Continue reading
The great adman, David Ogilvy once said that one of the greatest assets a leader can have is the power of forgiveness. | Continue reading
Patients want to know what’s going on. Especially in an era where they have access to so much information. | Continue reading
The Dalai Lama has advice for anyone in business, hoping to be a better leader: Be mindful. Be compassionate. Be selfless. | Continue reading
As her team got bigger and bigger, her life became less about doing wonderful work and cultivating meaningful relationships with colleagues | Continue reading
That’s what real camaraderie is: to like and respect the people who passionately share the same sense of mission that you do. | Continue reading
Without “new blood” entering the system, the system stagnates and gets corrupted. | Continue reading
trust is a complex, fragile thing, full of many layers. So one needs to be careful. It’s a lot harder to win back, after you’ve lost it | Continue reading
Arts, sciences, commerce, public service, it doesn’t matter- the more you’re learning, the more interesting your career becomes, end of story. | Continue reading
We live in an Internet age, which means we live in an age mostly built by engineers- ergo, we live in a very engineer-centric world. | Continue reading
if you want to make social change from within a business, you need to make a business case for it i.e. you need to state extrinsic reasons | Continue reading
In 1819 Keats famously wrote, “Beauty is Truth, and Truth, Beauty.” The trouble with that is Beauty is very fleeting. | Continue reading
You’d think Warren Buffett, being one of the richest men in the world, would be one of the busiest men in the world. | Continue reading
When people in religious orders wake up to pray at sunrise, they often refer to this special time in the morning as spending time “With The Lord”. | Continue reading
it tells us that success more often comes from more from being open to the world than it comes from having a big-deal plan, set in stone. | Continue reading
In a world where talent gets an increasingly large slice of the pie, this is a fair question. Though maybe a better question is, “Am I helpful?” | Continue reading
It was back in the day, in my mid-twenties, when I building my collection of jazz records. | Continue reading
They all “get” that the secret of their success is the social glue holding the company together, that it is a sum much greater than its individual parts. | Continue reading
Janet Crawford, a pioneer in applying neuroscience principles to business, Crawford explained that all of our decisions start and end with how we feel | Continue reading
Learn more about The reality of meaning from Gapingvoid, the leaders in workplace culture consulting and making work more meaningful! 305-763-8503 | Continue reading
About a decade ago, the “Turn your brand into a movement” idea started becoming fashionable. And why not? | Continue reading
If you’ve read a reputable geopolitical magazine like The Economist in the last forty years, you’ll have read a lot of articles about the “Rise of something". | Continue reading
The thing about work is that you’re going to encounter a bunch of people you don’t get along with. | Continue reading
But as you move on, the hard things get easier. And every time you get over one challenge, the reward feels a bit bigger. | Continue reading
We all know that data science is all the rage, here to stay. The next thing we need to do is establish sustainable principles for living with this. | Continue reading
When you are thinking about your products, [you can insert your culture], you should be asking: 'what is the other possible world'? | Continue reading
We take on far too much responsibility at work, we buy houses that are far too big for our families, we spend far too much money going out, fancy cars etc | Continue reading
When people’s lives and relationships aren’t working, they need to connect with something. Some people do this through a higher power. | Continue reading
The universe is a very complex place. Obviously, our brains can’t take it all in. So over millions of years, we evolved shortcuts to see the world | Continue reading
But it’s the company’s humanity which makes the company unique. And it’s this uniqueness that creates the actual value. | Continue reading
What he knows, however, is that it’s early days. Everything is still embryonic, nothing is fully developed. All you can do is keep your eyes and ears open. | Continue reading
“When new dancers come to work for my company, I tell them, ‘This is it’. In other words, this is as good as it gets. | Continue reading
This means that the talented amongst us have a lot more options, and know what they are. | Continue reading
If you’re in world that changes constantly (which you are, like it or not), it stands to reason that you be change-ready at all times | Continue reading
We know we can’t predict the future, that doesn’t mean we don’t know it’s there. A big part of business is managing that paradox | Continue reading
But to most people, the Internet has become “An Internet of Rabbit Holes”, where people go to lose themselves in whatever is obsessing them that week | Continue reading
All the data points to the fact that diverse and inclusive work environments outperform non-diverse workplaces. | Continue reading
Do you know anyone who really, truly, deeply, loves what they do? | Continue reading
It’s a lovely paradox: though evolution is the messiest business there is, Darwin’s Evolutionary Theory | Continue reading
we’re all searching for something, no matter what side your bread is buttered on), just remember that the answer isn’t outside you, but inside. | Continue reading
As you already know it’s called the Pareto Principle, the 80/20 rule. It states that 80% of the impact is being made by 20% of the effort. | Continue reading
When Europeans move to the the United States, one of the most unsettling bits of culture shock they experience is all the positive attitude everywhere. | Continue reading
Conventional wisdom says winners never quit. The Dip’s thesis says winners quit all the time, they’re just smart about it. | Continue reading
“It’s because I got married at 22,” says Frank. “Which means I was at home working on my book while you guys were out partying.” | Continue reading
Peter Grant was their manager. He was said to be one of the most ruthless, innovative and effective managers in the business. | Continue reading
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People who love their work have blessed existences in a way people who don’t love their work simply do not. | Continue reading