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Workplace Culture (5)

What Is a People-First Economy?

A monumental shift is happening now in corporations. The Business Roundtable – which includes America’s top CEOs such...

4 Essential Coaching Skills for Overloaded Managers

The modern workplace manager is expected to wear many hats. Operations expert. Organizer. Career counselor. Mentor....

Three Scientific Truths to Experience a Motivation Breakthrough

Have you ever struggled to stop a bad habit (like procrastinating on submitting your expense reports) or start a good...

3 Key Ways B Corps are Creating a More Equitable Economy by Putting People First

From strikes to rallies and petitions, employee activists are leading the way in advancing social justice movements in...

3 Strategies to Change your Workplace Culture by Changing Your Meetings

Meetings are an organization’s cultural backbone. How you run your meetings says more than you might think about how...

The B Corp Revolution: How Companies like Patagonia Are Driving Positive Social Change

In the modern consumer economy, just putting out a great product isn’t enough. Companies must live up to a great...

It's Time We Redeem Feedback: 3 Actions to Build a Feedback Movement

It’s time we redeem feedback. Why? Because feedback has a branding problem — a negative reputation that has been built...

The 5 Biggest Email Time Wasters That You Need to Ditch

Email has become the essential tool people love to hate. These expressions capture the angst well: “It’s killing me.”...

A Networking Survival Kit for People Who Hate Networking

Networking events are those special times in life when people gather together, generally in large numbers, to chitchat,...