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People are afraid of all kinds of things but car accidents are actually among the most common causes of death. Having a crash with an airplane may carry a lot of chances to cause death but it is very unlikely to happen, whereas car accidents are now a routine. Five...

By the time you finish this paragraph, 5,000 credit card transactions will have settled; nearly 50,000 instagram pictures will be uploaded; 350,000 tweets posted (or retweeted); and 3.8 million Google searches will have taken place. The amount of data that people share and companies process today is incredible. But most...

We know that the challenge of leadership has shifted in the last few years to a greater state of uncertainty, ambiguity, and changeability than we have ever seen. The implication of this is that decision making and judgement is increasingly being devolved to the middle – to the B-Suite. While...

A few days ago, I delivered a workshop (virtually) for a Vistage Chief Executive Group in Colorado Springs. Randy Welsch, the Vistage Chair who led the group, started the meeting with a short inclusion exercise. He broke everyone into small groups to answer four questions: Who was the best leader...

“You don’t need to reinvent the wheel when it comes to training design.  Most of the hard work has already been done for you” Use what’s already freely available to help you create quality learning experiences We’ve all heard of the old saying ‘don’t reinvent the wheel’, yet many educators...

Keeping a remote workforce engaged means putting people first and trying new things to keep everyone involved and invested. Leaders must work to keep their teams engaged, whether continuing to work remotely or returning to the office post-pandemic. Try these three strategies for team relationship upkeep. In this remote-controlled world...

From March 18, 2020, to March 18, 2021, the world's 2,365 billionaires added US$4 trillion to their collective wealth during the pandemic, according to a new report from the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS). Their combined wealth rose from US$8.04 trillion to US$12.39 trillion - that's a 54% increase. In...

What do you think of when I ask you to be more productive?  Most people would say I need to “do more”.  The reality is that none of us will ever be able to complete all the tasks on our to-do list. Time management and work-life balance are not the...

Working remotely can be highly challenging for many people. The workstyle of working from home became a trend right after Covid-19 appeared as an existing problem in all modern societies. However, it is almost certain that the working conditions will never return to the point they were before the pandemic...

The global pandemic hit us all hard in March 2020, changing our lives drastically in the process. Many of us were forced to work remotely, or cease work altogether, in order to avoid infection, and to comply with social distancing orders.  The end result was extremely isolating and incredibly anxiety-producing...