The following is a guest piece by CEO David Mattson. Over the years, we’ve worked with a lot of CEOs and others in senior leadership positions, and I’m often asked what the very best corporate leaders have in common when building their teams. The answer is simple: Great leaders are … Click to continue reading
The following is a guest piece by Alex Vorobieff. A healthy relationship with feedback exists when you can unemotionally assess the results of your business and then rationally determine what inputs or actions you need to change. Denial is a very frequent manifestation of an unhealthy relationship. It’s important to … Click to continue reading
The following is a guest piece by Stanford professor Dr. Leah Weiss. Modern leadership training is being taken over by a clever but misguided trend. One that’s filled with yoga rooms and entertainment-infused buffet lunches. It’s a train that many corporations are jumping onto, but the intent is often confused … Click to continue reading
The following is a guest piece by Derek Lidow. Most people assume that successful entrepreneurs are created solely based on how innovative and groundbreaking their new idea is. We fantasize about coming up with that invention or idea that solves a gargantuan problem for a lot of people and therefore … Click to continue reading
The following is a guest piece by Marcella Bremer. A CEO invited a group of people to a meeting who were at two different levels of the corporation. He asked a question and then went around the table in an orderly fashion getting input from the attendees. When he got … Click to continue reading
The following is a guest piece by Will Wise. Have you ever been in a meeting and wondered, “Why am I here?” Or worse yet, have you ever lead a meeting while others quietly asked themselves, “Why am I here?” If so, my guess is there was one thing missing … Click to continue reading
The following is a guest piece by Jaime Anderson and Gabor George Burt. In the beginning, there was humour and there was laughter. And it was good. But then, work became suffocatingly serious. Until now. There’s an entire branch of social science that studies the psychological and physiological effects of … Click to continue reading
The following is a guest piece by Anne Bahr Thompson, founder of the boutique consultancy Onesixtyfourth. Profound changes in cultural sentiment are shifting the landscape for business. An increasingly divided political climate has had many companies—large and small, new and legacy—across industries stepping up and taking positions on issues typically … Click to continue reading
The following is a guest piece by Terri Williams. A chain is only as strong as its weakest link, and a company is only as strong as its lowest-performing employees. At first, this analogy may appear to be an overreach—after all, how can one or even a handful of poorly … Click to continue reading
The following is a guest piece by Dr. Naphtali Hoff. “People with a scarcity mentality tend to see everything in terms of win-lose. There is only so much; and if someone else has it, that means there will be less for me. The more principle-centered we become, the more we … Click to continue reading
The following is a guest piece by Dave Crenshaw. Have you become allergic to fun? I suppose it’s an abrupt question to ask. If I were to ask that of someone, I can understand them taking it personally and responding with “buzz off” or some incantation of that phrase. But, … Click to continue reading
From growing a successful start-up, to writing a book and speaking internationally about workplace culture, to making a solid attempt at being a decent wife and mother of three kids; I require an enormous amount of mental bandwidth. I’m sure many of you reading this blog are in the same … Click to continue reading