On Monday mornings at the office, everyone is talking about the latest envelope-pushing Saturday Night Live skit. Invariably, the Super Bowl ad that gets the most buzz is the one that shocked and cracked you up. Humor has always been a powerful force when used to entertain, educate and sell. But humor is especially important […]
The global pandemic, the war in Ukraine, racial unrest, a divisive presidential term and so many more events in the past few years have all eyes on the news, including business leaders. C-suite leaders, managers and executives used to have little “extra” time to ensure they were up-to-date on current events. Now, reading the news […]
Investing can be intimidating, especially if you have never learned the basics and how to invest. You may know the best way to reach financial security is to invest rather than save, but you need clarification about how to do it outside your company retirement plan. Investing is a massive topic with many small details […]
Today, Marcia Hunter is an educator, life coach and author with an impressive three-decade career in higher education. Ask her how she got to that point, and she’ll tell you it’s been a lifelong journey. Literally: “It seems like my career got started as a child,” she says. Growing up in rural Jamaica, Hunter had […]
Have you ever walked into a room and couldn’t remember what you went in there for? Or maybe you’ve grasped the hand of a potential client and, when the handshake broke, their name seemed to disappear from your memory? Have you ever left a meeting with a prospect only to remember a key point that […]
People seeking couples counseling seek change to a relationship dynamic that isn’t working in some way. The problems can include poor communication, lack of emotional safety, resentment, trust violations and many other issues. It might even be that the couple have different ideas of what the problems are or simply a felt sense that […]
When Robert Hartwell first launched The Broadway Collective, a musical theater academy, in 2016, he worked at the kitchen table with his assistant. Times were tough then, a sentiment most early stage entrepreneurs can empathize with. “It was just the two of us, working in the kitchen,” Hartwell says, laughing at the memory. “You couldn’t […]
As the world reopened from lockdown in the pandemic, workers trickled back into the offices after remote working. Some ended up right back on their Zoom calls, leading to questions about the significance of the brick-and-mortar office. After the dust settled, business leaders found themselves with a novel question: Is the office an artifact of […]
Remember Roger Bannister? Until 1954, it seemed impossible for a human to run a mile in under four minutes. Then Bannister did it, and his record stood for only 46 days. In the next 67 years, more than 1,500 runners beat the four-minute mile. What changed? Only a belief in what’s possible. Most powerful ideas […]
By Leo Babauta It sometimes amazes me how we make everything harder for ourselves than it needs to be — myself included. That’s not a bad thing — it’s simply human. Harder is not worse. We learn from harder. So there’s a beauty and a sense to it. That said, once we see how much […]