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How to Break Through Your Dilemmas in 3 Steps
Wendy K. Smith is an expert in strategic paradoxes–how leaders and senior teams effectively respond to contradictory agendas—and how we can all more effectively navigate the pull of “either-or” thinking. Wendy is the co-author of the 2022 book, Both/And Thinking: ...
Three Ways to Increase Your Team’s Influence
Chef José Andrés immigrated to the United States from Spain at 21 with the equivalent of $50 cash. Today, he is a two-time Michelin-star-winning chef, runs 31 dining establishments, is a New York Times best-selling author, professor, father of three, and is a leading phila ...
How to Create Teams that Excel Under Pressure
Photo credit: iStockphoto.com (Rudzhan Nagiev) Dr. Swati Mohan is one of the foremost women leaders in aerospace engineering — a field comprised of 88.8 percent men and 11.2 percent women. In 2020, she led the mission that landed a rover on Mars to search for signs of life ...
Three Simple Ways to Improve Employee Well-Being
Before she became CEO of TaskRabbit, Stacy Brown-Philpot was a dog-loving leader at Google who sometimes brought Zeus, her little Yorkshire Terrier, to the office. One day, a manager on her team asked if she could sit with Zeus for a few minutes because she’d just had to t ...
Sometimes the Most Honest Conversation You Need to Have Is With Yourself
Celeste Headlee is an American radio journalist, author, public speaker, co-host of the weekly series Retro Report on PBS – and host of the Conference for Women’s podcast, Women Amplified. This month, she allowed us to turn the tables and interview her about her specialt ...
Beyond Harmony: How Productive Disagreement Strengthens Your Team
If you’re like many people, you may feel that – given the state of public discourse these days – it’s best to avoid differences of opinion in the workplace. But that’s not necessarily so, says Mónica Guzmán, journalist and author of I Never Thought of It That W ...
Identify 3 Core Values to Guide You
Gabby Rivera was raised in a Puerto Rican family in the Bronx, came out as queer, and published a critically acclaimed debut novel, Juliet Takes a Breath, about her coming-of-age story. Then Marvel Comics called. They invited her to write America, a comic book series a ...
3 Micro-Steps to Avoid Burnout (and Be More Productive)
“We’ve all been living under this delusion that to succeed, we must burn out,” says Arianna Huffington, co-founder of The Huffington Post and CEO of Thrive Global. “I can tell you that based on the latest science and ancient wisdom, it doesn’t have to b ...
3 Listening Skills to Help You Improve Collaboration & Relationships
There’s a funny thing – actually, a few funny things – about how we think about listening. One is that when we feel we haven’t been listened to, our best response is to repeat ourselves, only louder. Or to retreat and say nothing at all. Another funny thi ...
How to Improve Your Attention in 12 Minutes a Day
We all know our attention tends to be scattered because so many things compete for it. But have you ever asked yourself exactly how much you’re missing when trying to pay attention to a task? Ten percent? Twenty? Thirty? The answer is 50 percent, according to D ...
