How to foster constructive debates within your work team
Working in a diverse workforce where different perspectives come together means learning to navigate conflict constructively. Debates at work can lead to new ideas, but if leaders don’t show receptiveness to different opinions, it will only undermine the whole purpose of having a diverse team. Read More...
How to show commitment to the mental health of your employees
If you’re a leader at your workplace, then you have the obligation to demonstrate compassion and make time for people when they need it. That’s especially the case today at this time of great uncertainty. To help you connect more meaningfully with team members, here are a few simple tips from Read More...
Ireland’s Prime Minister is joining the medical staff to fight COVID-19
Before joining politics, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar had been working as a junior doctor in Dublin. Now, as Ireland is battling with the ongoing pandemic, Varadkar has rejoined the country’s medical register and will work one shift a week to help out the overwhelmed health services. After Read More...
Landlord in Arkansas has restaurant owners pay employees instead of rent
In these difficult times, more and more tough decisions have to be made by companies and businesses, including closing for business and laying off workers. But in Arkansas, the property owner of several restaurants is making life a little easier. In an effort to help restaurant owners and their Read More...
COVID-19: How to be a leader in times of crisis
The unknown peril of COVID-19 is only heaping more stress onto an already stressed workforce. With the virus actively changing the way we live our day-to-day lives, there’s never been a more important time for leaders to step up within their respective companies and apply time-tested principles Read More...
Science tells us the best bosses encourage people to speak up
If you’re a leader within an organization, how do you take on the role? Are you commanding, or do you welcome participation from those working for you? The latest research tells us that high-status people largely lose their ability to take others’ perspectives into account because they start Read More...
Organizing is much like sports
Possibility From The Optimist Magazine Summer 2014 Otto Scharmer can be considered an expert on leadership. Focusing his work on evolutionary stages of complex living systems, such as organizations, his book Theory U became an international bestseller. He’s a senior lecturer at MIT, Read More...
Lessons from the Chinese Warlord
By Rob Hartgers From The Optimist Magazine Fall 2015 The Art of War, by Sun Tzu, is 2,500 years old, but it’s still one of the most widely read books on strategy and leadership. What makes this work so relevant after all these centuries? And what can we learn from it? Henry Kissinger recommended Read More...
The female way of leadership
What do Dante and female leaders have in common? The ability to lead others by first understanding themselves. Karin Jironet | July/August 2010 issue We need more than multinationals to achieve economic Read More...
The State of the World Forum
The State of the World Forum plans to turn good ideas into urgent action. Jim Garrison | April 2009 issue The State of the World Forum was established in 1995 with Mikhail Gorbachev as the convening chairman to create a global leadership network committed to transforming conversations that matter Read More...