How the Triple Bottom Line (People, Profits, Planet) is Becoming the New Normal These days, everyone seems to be talking about âthe new normal.â We see it in blogs, business journals, and newspapers. We hear the chatter in executive forums, networking meetings, and around boardroom tables. Common questions that define this new business environment are: […]
Where do you go to get quality work done? If youâre like the people Jason Fried interviewed for his book Rework your answer might be a coffee shop or a special room in the house, or while traveling on a train or a plane. You wouldnât mention work being a good place to get […]
It appears weâve entered the age of narcissism, for reasons that include fear for our own well-being, companies that measure and reward individual instead of team results, a new generation of employees who feel more entitled than their older peers and a U.S. culture that reveres individual success. Letâs face it, some amount of […]
Everyone is a master. Yet we have a choice about which energy we master. We can work to master Abundance (Abundance = overflowing health, harmony and prosperity), or we will default to the scarcity mastery (scarcity = disease, conflict and financial worry) which we have inherited. Everything in the Universe is made of energy and all energy […]
To see American management 20 years ago, visit a company in India today. Like many other developing countries, India imitates American business. Yes, U.S. businesses have leaped forward in many ways. But weâve also taken several steps back. Today in this country, we often avoid conflict by tiptoeing around issues and discouraging debate. In an effort […]
A few years ago on a family vacation, we sat in the choir stalls at Westminster Abbey â the 700-year-old English church â and listened to choir voices echo and then fade into the abbeyâs ancient spaces. My normally fidgety son was glued to his seat, in complete awe. The summer before, we all stood […]
In a 2015 Gallup survey, more than half of iPhone owners said that they couldnât imagine life without the device. Adrien Ward, a cognitive psychologist and marketing professor at the University of Texas at Austin, has spent a decade studying the way smart-phones and the internet affect our thoughts and judgments. In his own work, […]
What lessons can the space shuttle Challenger and Columbia disasters teach us that we can apply in business? According to the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, NASA never fixed the underlying institutional problems that led to the 1986 Challenger tragedy. As a result, many of them played a role in Columbiaâs doomed flight in February […]
Iâll admit it. Iâm an email addict. Iâm a people-pleasing baby boomer who wants to be on the ball and prove my worth by the speed of my response. On average I check email 30-40 times an hour: Itâs the first thing I do in the morning, the last thing I do at night and […]
Why do so many people start a new business, only to fail? According to the Commerce Department 80 percent of all new businesses close their doors within the first five years. Of those that survive another eight in ten will fail in the second five years. There are thousands of books, tapes, seminars and […]