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Malala Yousafzai is many things. The survivor of a Taliban assassination attempt. An activist for female rights and education. She is a fighter and a crusader for justice. But Malala is also a leader, despite her young...

We spend vast sums of money, in the corporate world, on training and��developing our leaders���in the United States alone, a jaw-dropping $14 billion every year.��The usual leadership course goes something like this:...

I opened the package when it arrived in the mail. There it was ��� a beautiful, glossy copy of my book. My first book. Along with pride and joy, I also felt a massive knot of nerves in my stomach. My book would be out...

No company or client wants to produce products for yesterday, or even today. They want ���Wayne Gretzky��� outcomes���products that fulfill where the demand is going. Great product ideas often exhibit an uncanny prescience...

It���s not just the strategy ��� nor even the execution ��� that produces business growth.�� It is also the choreography���or in other words plotting a series of powerful and unusual growth strategies ��� and then executing them...

A sales leader asked us last week if we had found anything in our research that contradicts long-held wisdom about leadership? Yes, we said, there have been ahas in our work that should change the way we all think about...

My fascination with happiness began at a four-way stop in Toronto. I was on my way to work, ruminating on how unhappy I was at my job. As I pulled up to the intersection, I noticed the faces of the other drivers and...

I was recently in Chicago for a keynote. By random chance, the annual conference for my fellow organizational psychology nerds was taking place at a hotel just three blocks away. Heeding the message from the universe, I...

In his notes to prepare for this interview, Kevin Connolly says he has the word ���people��� written everywhere. The President of Dell EMC Canada Commercial believes that building a culture around people and trust leads to...

In a previous��article, I wrote about why ���wow this is a great idea��� can lead to higher failure rates of your innovation efforts. This results in wasted time, money, and effort that could be invested in more valuable...

The phrase ���work smarter, not harder��� has been thrown around so much that it has become a clich��. I mean, who wants to ���work dumb���? Unfortunately, from time to time, many people, including myself, do just that. It���s not...

Imagine this scenario. You���ve done all the right things. You���ve found the fastest, most expedient way to the top. You fought and hustled and strived and leaned in to the idea of success that you were told you���d want,...

Gillian Riley, President & CEO of Tangerine, is on a mission to help strengthen the opportunities and support available to women-led businesses in Canada. While these enterprises represent over $117 billion in economic...

So it's really interesting when we started the journey and we started hearing from leaders about how important compassion was. At first we thought, 'oh no, we can't talk about that because everybody's going to see us as...

Life really is too short to be unhappy at work. Yet far too many of us aren���t even close to being content���much less delighted���with our work or our workplaces. Instead, we are stressed and exhausted. We can���t remember...

A few years ago we sat in the kick-off meeting of a cross-functional team of senior people, assembled to tackle a big project for their company. The team was in a circle; the men in blue button-down shirts, the women in...

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Delaware���s favorite son likes to say, ���My dad used to have an expression. He said ���it���s a lucky person who gets up in the morning, puts both feet on the floor, knows what he���s about to do and thinks it still matters.���...

Nobel Peace Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Malala Yousafzai's first picture book, inspired by her own childhood. "This is a wonderful read for younger students that will also provide...

What's the secret to having an engaged and productive team? It's having a plan for developing all employees--no matter where they are on their personal learning curves. �� Better morale and higher...