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Caleres is a $2 billion global company built around shoes and footwear. Diane Sullivan led the company’s transformation from “selling shoes” to managing shoe brands. The Brown Shoe Company was founded in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1881 to make leather shoes, no paper insoles, as an alternative to ordering shoes...

Leaders might feel superhuman powers are needed to retain their employees in 2022, as The Great Resignation rages on. However, my view is that stemming the tide of talent defections is within relatively easy reach for we mere mortal CEOs, so long as our organisations’ values, HR policies and management...

The concept of a beginner’s mindset comes from Zen Buddhism and the word Shoshin, translated as looking at every situation as if you are seeing it for the first time. With the world changing as rapidly as it is, we’re seeing things for the first time almost every day. Yet...

It is the final year of university, and there will be so much happening in a short period of time. I am not exaggerating when I say that the final year hits like a truck. And, while you are amid the craziness, there are placement interviews to be taken care...

Assessments of evaluation that are handed to students are often not used as a test for them. Mainly they are a test for the teacher. The major challenge a professor has to accept is that they are not invited to only talk about what a topic they know but they...

Trying to succeed, trying to be happy, and trying to be peaceful are three different things. As we get old all we want is to be able to remain calm throughout the day. To do that one has to follow three plain rules that will allow them to sleep nice...

Humans love acceptance. Acceptance equals love for many of us and it has very similar qualities with love, indeed. How do we end up being rejected and why do we unintentionally reject other people as well? Today we will find all the answers to an issue that makes most of...

Expected new SEC requirements will have a lasting impact on corporate culture. “Our employees are our biggest asset” – 18 years ago, the former CEO of Xerox, Anne M. Mulcahy, made this statement at the 2003 Life Management Conference. As we enter 2022, it might become real and CEOs and...

With remote work having gone mainstream, the concept of workers on the payroll who are completing tasks many miles away from the home office is no longer suspect or concerning. Hiring the best talent, anywhere you can find it, has become commonplace.    Yet some companies remain uneasy. Issues of trust...

As a child, Doug Parker lived in many cities in the United States because of his father's job, who started as a butcher in a supermarket chain but eventually took various positions. Although many boys at a young age get excited about aeroplanes or want to become pilots, he had...