I doubt that there are many CEOs or senior leaders who haven’t heard of the ‘Great Resignation’.  Reported widely in the media, a picture is being painted of a tsunami of post-covid resignations as employees re-evaluate their work lives.   Though its scope and impact is yet to play out in...

As of 4 May 2022, with a net worth of roughly $258 billion, Elon Musk is the wealthiest person in the world, followed by Jeff Bezos(No. 2, $148 billion), Bernard Arnault(No. 3, $132 billion); and Bill Gates(No. 4, $125 billion). Gautam Adani is the fifth-richest person globally, with $122 billion....

Building healthy and effective work relationships is important for a variety of reasons, including success in your career and creating a more pleasant work experience for you, your colleagues, and anyone you service in the community.  Humans crave connection, even the introverted. And given we typically spend up to 60...

Twenty-five years ago, in the feature film Contact, Ellie Arroway (Jodie Foster) responded to her former mentor and nemesis, Dr. David Drumlin (Tom Skerritt), after having had a tough day testifying before Congress. Here's a snippet of the dialogue:  David Drumlin: “I know you must think this is all very...

Working from home was a must during the pandemic, and it’s now a choice that many people are making as part of their new work normal. The challenge with having a hybrid and distributed workforce is that the cues that help create cultural norms are diluted, patchy, or even missing...

If you’re a product designer, the most exciting part of your job is seeing the finished product for the first time. It’s the culmination of months of research, thinking, meetings, tinkering, frustrations, and triumphs. It’s what makes the job worthwhile. So Doug Dietz, a designer at GE Healthcare, was understandably...

There’s a difference between successful leaders, professionals, and business people — and those who aren’t. The difference is their relationships. In life as well as in work, relationships are everything. And the currency that truly underscores great business relationships isn’t a matter of focusing only on profits or objectives and...

Have you ever wondered, “When should I sell my business?” Business owners often peg the timing of their exit to some milestone in their life or the life of the business itself. Perhaps their goal is to sell the business when they reach retirement age (whatever age that may be),...

Does the play-it-safe mentality run rampant in your organization?  Are the “innovative” ideas really just retreads of past decisions that led to lackluster results? While it’s easy to blame individual leaders for their un-inspired initiatives, maybe there’s another culprit.  Maybe your business lacks a risk-taking mindset. Too often in business,...