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In 2015, the International Journal of Wellbeing published an article of mine entitled, ‘Workplace wellbeing programs: If you build it they may NOT come…because it’s not what they really need’.  In the article I pointed out that whilst organisations had been giving more attention to employee health and wellbeing, participation...

The man who has it all… except happiness. Five thousand retail stores in China worth …., he is wildly successful but unhappy! Here was a guy who had it all. The money, the power, the success, but something was missing, and he knew it. He could just not identify what it...

Well, it’s YOU. It’s your ideas, your message, your voice, your way of saying it. It is simply taking the time to be creative and to share yourself and your ideas with the world REGULARLY. In this video, I share ONE simple habit that I stick to with absolute dedication...

The progress of health care throughout history can be measured by innovations. Vaccine developments, new therapeutics, and life-saving medical devices have all played a critical role in drastically moving the needle to improve the quality of care available to people, saving lives and money. Technology, a key driver of innovation...

A New Ownership Tool for an Evolving Marketplace: The past twenty years has seen a slow but steady shift in how businesses organize and operate, with an increasing number looking beyond the short term goal of simply maximizing financial profits for shareholders.  From an organizational standpoint, more and more companies are...

At my company, we spend our time helping other companies scale internationally, which means that we end up working with a lot of international teams. It doesn’t hurt that our own team has been international since 2016. We have people from Australia, the Philippines, the United States, India and Jamaica...

We refer to it as headhunting to add mystique and enchantment, but it really is executive search. Traditionally and in days prior to the excruciating boa constricting squeeze for talent, the big names (or heads), heavy hitters of industry were headhunted. These executives did not look for jobs. They were...

America has been struggling to find its leadership role in faraway conflicts. Obama’s “leading from behind” suggested an elitist, puppet-master-like control of local actors, while Trump’s “not my problem” proclamations implied a U.S. retreat from the world. The Biden administration’s “Putin must go” and “Russia must be emasculated” bravado, while...

Transformation. It’s the buzzword of the day/year. In a nutshell, transformational initiatives are larger and more complex with more on the line than large projects of the past. And so far, are these current initiatives faring better than the large ones from two decades ago? It’s spotty, to say the...

Traditionally, how we navigate our careers and our sense of success is measured by the climb up the corporate ladder. The climb requires accumulating and tracking personal accomplishments, much like a person collects wine or baseball cards. We refer to these achievements by many names—goals, objectives, outcomes, deliverables, results, and...