Love it? Hate it? Or, just don’t care? How we feel about something dramatically affects how we interact with it. When we feel, we care. When we care, things happen.

Companies that are thriving, not just surviving, are much more than a set of ruthlessly efficient and mechanistic processes – they are a social system operated by people for people. The quality of relationships, both inside and outside the organization is a far more important driver of sustainable success or failure than the… Continue

For organizations to maintain their competitive advantage, their people need to be performing to the best of their abilities. But in a world of increasing stress and pressure, of rapid technological change and digital overload, supporting and developing employees has never been more difficult. To develop top-performing employees, HR professionals need to move beyond ad hoc engagement initiatives and instead to design and embed employee experience throughout an organization’s processes and… Continue

The Drama-Free Workplace: Learn how you can Prevent Unconscious Bias, Sexual Harassment, Ethics Lapses, and Inspire a Healthy Culture



Companies spend millions on legal compliance training and initiatives to eliminate workplace drama and the resulting low morale and lawsuits, but don’t always get the results they want. Most organizations understand that simply checking legal compliance boxes around sexual harassment, bias, etc. isn’t enough, but are at a loss on how to implement… Continue

Simon Sinek’s “Start with Why” demonstrates that the world’s most powerful leaders all think, behave, and communicate in the same way – and it’s the polar opposite of what everyone else does.



The Golden Circle is a concept introduced by Sinek, which looks at the Why as the source of How then. People are attracted to why companies proceed with a specific product, develop a particular brand, or propose a certain job. Whereas modern management appears to focus more on the what, the… Continue

Malcolm Gladwell makes us travel through a logical expedition through the world of “outliers.” And who are they? This magnificent book is the brightest and most innovative, renowned, and prosperous. He poses the question, “What distinguishes outstanding achievers?”



He responds that we focus too much on the individual’s success and focus too little on where they come from: their culture, family, generation, and unique upbringing experiences. Moving ahead in the book, he reveals the… Continue

Several aspiring entrepreneurs talk about how exciting it is to start a company, but only Ben Horowitz is open about how challenging it is to operate an already started company.



In the book, “The Hard Thing About Hard Things,” Ben Horowitz, the Andreessen Horowitz’s associate benefactor and generally regarded and experienced business people of the Silicon Valley, illustrates on his own experience establishing, selling, making due, purchasing, running, and placing resources into… Continue