Lifestyle and Travel

There is a concept in physics called ''Entropy'' describing how all systems tend to reach conditions of total disorder. The human body does not escape this common truth. It seems to lose all its ability to keep organized functions at the desired level, as time goes by. The beauty industry...

Planning, tactics, clear roles, and all other forms of order and discipline—to one degree or another, as leaders and as followers, in organizations small and large, frankly as humans we pine for these things. They promise predictability (even when they fail to deliver). But here's the problem: The world today...

The statistics around employee engagement are startling. According to Gallup, for the past 10-20, around 45-50 percent of US Employees are disengaged, with a further 10-15 percent actively disengaged. I use this graphic as a perfect example of what that really means and the impact that it is having on...

I remember back in the late 1990s and early 2000s - as a young woman in the tech space in a predominantly male-dominated industry – companies attracted top talent with game rooms, catered happy hours with champagne, and even new car signing bonuses. With that exuberance is long gone, there...

Food is the easiest way to make ourselves happy. Consuming a delicious meal releases serotonin in our brain, which is the hormone that makes us happy. Some scientists claim that a person is more likely to survive without food for a serious period of time rather than without serotonin. No...

Succession planning is going backwards. Since 1999 there has been continued worldwide slippage in companies that feel they have a decent bench to replace those moving on or retiring. DDI’s recent Global Leadership Forecast reports that 77% of organisations report a leadership gap - a situation that is worsening as...

There is no business transformation without the transformation of its leaders. Far too many transformational efforts don’t deliver on its high ambitions. Instead of realising step-change improvements, they often lead to incremental change. Through sports, I experienced what it took to realise step-change improvements. To tap into unknown opportunities, I...

About to present in a room full of your peers, you take one look around and suddenly you don’t feel so good because you feel like a fraud. Don’t feel bad, you’ve only just experienced Imposter Syndrome and this is more common than you think. Imposter Syndrome according to verywellmind.com...

Recycling seems to be a new trend but this is pretty much how it always used to be. Ecological awareness and the need to protect and prevent the degradation of ecosystems from the growth of garbage, has evolved over the centuries. Each country, depending on its own pace of technological...

Over the last 10 years, huge amounts of money have been invested in the progress of classical medicine. However, very few are important achievements of which we can be truly proud, that saved millions of human lives. The greatest achievement of the last century is the discovery and application of...