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What Is the Best Way to Give?
Is it better to give a thousand dollars to one person, or one dollar to a thousand people? I still haven’t quite decided what my answer is. One the one hand, a thousand dollars has the potential to make a much greater impact on someone’s life than a single dollar. I...
Up Is Not the Only Way: Rethinking Career Mobility
Careers used to be predictable. There were ladders. Each rung led up the hierarchy. Then individual aspirations and company needs began to evolve. Old ladders became largely inaccessible. Some rungs disappeared, and the space between others shifted from steps to...
Generosity is Always the Right Choice
Of all our core values, generosity is the one I most enjoy incorporating into work and life. Giving is fun. When I give, I can immediately notice the benefit I am bringing to the person receiving the gift. More than that, what I receive in return is often far more...
Five Leadership Literacies to Leapfrog Yourself into the Future
We are moving toward a world where younger generations will bring gaming experience to work, and it will prove to be a big competitive advantage for them. A world where clarity will be rewarded, but certainty will be punished. A world where diversity and innovation...
Work-Life Balance and Flexibility
Having a flexible schedule is something any employee can appreciate. As a millennial, it was something I desired, but didn’t realize how available it was fresh out of college. The Future Workforce Desires Flexibility Traditionally, people were led to believe one must...
Discover the Business of Sustainable Wine with Sandra Taylor
As a young US diplomat working in Switzerland, Sandra Taylor experienced her wine “epiphany” while visiting wineries in the nearby Burgundy region of France. Not being very educated about wines at the time, except enjoying the wines she tasted at diplomatic dinners,...
Flexibility, Autonomy, and Work-Life Integration
Remember when work-life balance was the goal of the well-rounded business person? You were told to keep your personal life at home and your business at work. But with the growing use of mobile phones, email and the internet those lines got blurred. The new phrase is...
Take Charge of Your Feelings with The Mood Elevator
Mood swings. We all experience them from time to time, whether as a result of fluctuating hormones or changes in circumstance or fluctuating energy levels. But what if we could learn to level out those swings, and keep ourselves at the upper end of things? What if you...
Stay Flexible on Social Media
As social media managers, we constantly think ahead and plan content for next week, next month, and beyond. After all, the number one rule of social media is “post consistently.” Content marketing requires a constant stream of content. So we plan content and editorial...
The Three Rules of Intelligent Restraint
We’re throwing it back! This week we’re showcasing a guest post from Alison Eyring about the theme from her latest book, Pacing for Growth, which launched on February 20, 2017.* In endurance training, you can apply simple rules of restraint to ramp up and ramp down...
Guess What? Work and Life Don’t Have To Be at Odds
When I was pregnant with my first, I heard the same saying over and over again. “You have no idea how much you can love something until you have a child.” It seemed like such a cliché. I tried not to roll my eyes—mostly because this was usually used as some kind of...
5 Tips to Stop Driving People Crazy
We’re throwing it back! This week we’re showcasing a guest post from Susan Fowler about the theme from her latest book, Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work... and What Does, which re-launched in paperback on February 27, 2017. If you want to drive yourself crazy,...