Empowered
EMPOWERED WELL-BEING What is Well-being? “Who doesn’t want to have less stress, more flexibility, a more human approach to dealing with the demands of work and life?” This is the question [...]
Ray Dalio – The 5 Criteria For Success
RAY DALIO The 5 Criteria for Success I recently watched Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater – the world’s largest hedge fund – speak with Andrew Ross Sorkin on Deal B%k [...]
Harnessing Innovation with Non-Conformity
“Innovation is important—it solves problems today in a way that positions us to address the unforeseen problems of tomorrow.” The Rockefeller Foundation Innovation, and the creativity that fuels it, drive the [...]
Parental Leave: Signs of Improvement?
Parental leave has been in the news, with companies announcing new, more generous policies, and Presidential candidate Donald Trump revealing his proposed plan for new mothers. Is the US taking [...]
Working 9-5? More Like 24/7
freedigitalphotos.net by adamr The concept of a 9-5 workday has been gone for a long time. But we’ve replaced it with a far more extreme timetable: 24/7. Technology [...]
The Freelance Workforce
Image courtesy of punsayaporn at FreeDigitalPhotos.net The 2008 financial crisis resulted in 7.9 million job losses and the recovery was slow. With companies hesitant to hire full-time employees, [...]
Sick and Parental Leave Initiative Announced in Washington
In a LinkedIn post on January 14, senior White House advisor Valerie Jarrett announced that President Obama would propose new initiatives to support working families in the form of paid [...]
The Foundations of Engaged, Motivated Professionals
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve. –Napoleon Hill Happy and engaged workers can support the success of a company and motivating employees is a [...]
Five Business Books for Summer Reading
Summer seems to offer more opportunities for reading. The pace in business lessens as people take vacations, kids are out of school, and the hot weather beckons us to slow down. [...]
Closing the Gender Gap May Lie With Fathers
freedigitalphotos.net by David Castillo Dominici During gender gap conversations, we tend to focus on the “what’s wrong” aspect of the conversation. We provide statistics for the lack of [...]