Exceptional leaders often excel as skilled storytellers, and for good reason. Once a company hits a certain level of organizational complexity, one of the most important tasks the CEO has is to craft intellectually coherent and captivating narratives about the firm, its purpose, and its performance. Failure in this task means undermining the very existence of the company; a sin…
Modern leaders recognise every moment offers the opportunity for us to leave a positive impact on others. Modern leaders are not perfect. Far from it. Leading, like living, is a series of missteps and challenges, setbacks and lessons learnt. We will be invariably learning some of the same lessons our…
The U.S. law protecting workers from age discrimination is not equal to the protections under Title VII that protect workplace discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Pending legislative actions that could put workplace age protections on par have sat in Senate committee for more than two…
We’ve spent decades worrying about the dangers of China’s rise. We should worry even more if that rise is coming to a halt. Tensions between the two countries are as high as they’ve been since the 1980s. And things are likely to get worse. One of the few points of…
When Britney Spears shaved her head in 2007, she instantly became the butt of jokes and casual cruelty. Late-night talk show hosts excoriated her. People on then-nascent social media platforms laughed at her. Even respected journalists used her as a punchline. Spears never provided a real explanation for her choice…
Wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook, once declared that he and his colleagues would “move fast and break things.” That phrase, which seemed to legitimize recklessness, became an informal motto at the tech giant as well as for many other aspiring entrepreneurs. Frances Frei and Anne Morriss, cohosts of the…
*note: the title of this article was written by Guild’s internal GPT Automation of all kinds is transforming work—with as much as 30% of the work people do today potentially being done by a machine in the near future. And for even a casual reader of the news, it would…
Comcast NBCUniversal celebrates ten years of their award-winning Voices of the Civil Rights Movement platform by releasing ten never-before-seen video interviews on Black Experience on Xfinity (BEX), further expanding the collection of over 200 firsthand interviews featuring American civil rights champions such as award-winning Broadway actress, singer, and lifelong civil…
Washington has shown increasing levels of hostility toward Beijing. Leadership in European Union (EU) has adopted Washington’s tone, if a bit less strident. In the United States talk increasingly includes the phrase “de-couple from China.” The Europeans prefer the word “de-risk,” but it comes to the same thing. Independently and…
With so much conflict, division and crisis happening in the world today, it is easy to despair and think that the individual interventions that add up to progress in the fight against poverty and equality don’t matter. They do. Amidst the doom and gloom narratives that dominate our daily lives,…
I first met Sherri Turpin, CEO at ZVRS and Purple Communications, over two years ago, in August 2021, when I interviewed her about video relay services (VRS) for the Deaf and hard-of-hearing communities. I followed up with her six months later for another discussion on the topic. Turpin is yet…
In a declining economy, startups face an uphill battle when it comes to securing funding.…
With all of the recent news about artificial intelligence (AI), it got me thinking about…
A while back, I took a couple of my grandchildren on a tour of the…
Startups face numerous challenges on their journey to success, and failing to overcome any one…
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