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Three Leadership Lessons from Stacey Abrams
“I’ve had opportunities to soar in leadership, and I’ve crashed and burned and over the years,” says Stacey Abrams, political leader, voting rights activist, entrepreneur, and three-time New York Times best-selling author. Along the way, she adds, she ...
How Leaders Thrive During Disruption: A Conversation with Charlene Li
Charlene Li is an expert on digital transformation, leadership, and the future of work. She is the author of six books, including the New York Times best-seller, Open Leadership. Q: Your most recent book is the Disruption Mindset, which, coincidentally, came out in the fall ...
How to Refresh and Reconnect with Yourself
This article was originally published on chopra.com by Mallika Chopra, CEO of Chopra Global. Finding ways to ground yourself is a powerful way to maintain equanimity when the world around you seems to just be a bit too much. In life, the reality is that you will face challen ...
Brené Brown’s Advice On How To Become Your Best Self During Uncertainty
Q: In a recent New Yorker profile of you, we learn that you dreamt early on about starting a global conversation about vulnerability—which, of course, you have done. What impact do you think the past few years have had on our comfort or discomfort with vulnerability? It ...
Simon Sinek Has Tips for Businesses that Want to Keep Their Employees
Q: Since the pandemic, many people have been wrestling with their personal why, their purpose. What do you see going on? And how should businesses respond? I think only half the story is being written about the Great Resignation. The pessimistic view is that people don’t n ...
Put Fear in its Place: A Conversation with Luvvie Ajay Jones
We should all have a friend like Luvvie Ajay Jones: a woman who is joyously bold and doesn’t let us get away with thinking: Oh, that’s just the way she’s made. We could never be that bold. In an exclusive conversation with the Conferences for Women, the two ...
3 Ways to Develop the Emotional Agility & Thrive
Even in the best of times, many people squash what Susan David, award-winning Harvard Medical School psychologist, refers to as “so-called negative emotions,” such as grief, sadness, and frustration. But people who are open to the reality of human experience are ...
Readers Write: About Work-Family “Balance”
Thanks to our readers for sharing their experience of work-family issues this month. Here are some positive ideas from two of our readers. If you have a story to share, please send it to [email protected]. Employees Finally Have the Power to Choose by Mboone Um ...
How Yoga Can Help You Find Your Balance (or Accept Your Imbalance)
Jessamyn Stanley is refreshingly honest and self-accepting. She also has a lovely way of bringing self-acceptance out in others. We had a conversation with her this month about the transformative possibilities of yoga—even if you start with a free three-minute video. Stanl ...
How to Build Mental Strength
What do mentally strong people do—and not do? This question became a burning one for Amy Morin after she suffered a series of personal losses early in her career as a psychotherapist. It also led her to write several books, including the international bestseller 13 Things ...
