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The Silent Organization: Understanding and Transforming Your Feedback Culture
A feedback culture is an organizational environment where open, honest, and ongoing communication is not just welcomed, but actively encouraged and integrated into everyday operations. It’s a workplace where employees at every level feel safe to share their perspectives, give and receive constructive feedback, and know that their voices can help shape both individual and team success. In a strong feedback culture, feedback isn’t seen as criticism, but as a valuable tool for personal and collective growth, adaptation, and innovation.
Fueling Holistic Motivation: How to Inspire Drive Across Work, Life, and Relationships
Creating motivation that flows seamlessly from our daily routines into our work, relationships, and broader life is about embracing a holistic approach—where the mind, body, and spirit work in harmony to fuel lasting drive and fulfillment.
The Fundamentals of Design Thinking: A Human-Centered Approach
At its core, design thinking puts humans first. It’s about understanding real needs, and then coming up with ideas, testing them, and changing course as you learn. Rather than assuming what people want, you involve them in the process from start to finish.
How to Stop Sabotaging Your Goals: A People-First Approach
Unlocking your potential and achieving ambitious goals—whether personal or within your organization—requires more than passion and strategy. Too often, individuals and businesses unintentionally sabotage their progress by neglecting the human side of goal achievement. For mission-driven organizations and leaders, shifting the focus from business priorities to prioritizing people is key to sustained growth and breakthrough results. Here’s how to leverage the principles of design, craft, develop, engage, elevate, and embrace to create systems and organizations that empower people, not just profit.
Rethinking Needs and Wants: Economics Beyond Money
Economics is often reduced to money—spending it, saving it, and maximizing it. But at its core, economics is not just about currency or the exchange of goods and services. It is the study of how humans make choices in a world of limited resources. This...
The Importance of Objectively Evaluating Your Business: Staying in Sync with the World
In today’s ever-evolving marketplace, running a business is as much about agility and alignment as it is about passion and persistence. As a business strategist, I’ve seen firsthand the critical need for entrepreneurs and leaders to step back and objectively...