THE BIG IDEA: Play is essential for creativity, collaboration, and positive mental health. This article explores how a more playful attitude can elevate your business.
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Somehow, many of us have come to associate business with seriousness. The mindset is: Playfulness is childish. Adults are serious; business professionals even more so.When you were a child, your parents might have told you: “Stop playing around!”And you just might have listened too well.Play and playfulness, however, are incredibly important for both your work and your organization.
THE BIG IDEA: Improving employee engagement is a chief responsibility of executive leaders. Below are 9 strategies that can move your people to do their best work.
THE BIG IDEA: The strategies in today’s article can radically alter how you work and can yield results uncommon to even the highest performing leaders.
THE BIG IDEA: Hundreds of studies have demonstrated the profound effects meditation can have on an individual’s mental, emotional, and physical well-being. For executive leaders, meditation can be a transformational practice as well as a moral imperative.
Thank you for your continued readership. A happy and healthy New Year to you.Here are a few hand-selected quotes on leadership to prime your mind for the year ahead:
THE BIG IDEA: The imagination is perhaps your most underutilized resource that, if tapped, can transform your organization through innovation and forever alter the course of your business.
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In a 1929 interview, Albert Einstein said: “Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.”Do you think he was correct?
THE BIG IDEA: Integrity is the foundation for trust. Trust is the most important characteristic people look for in leaders. It’s also the driving force behind customer loyalty.
THE BIG IDEA: Apple had no business getting into the retail space, but their courage paid off and there are lessons we can all learn from their success.
THE BIG IDEA: Performance reviews may actually be hindering employee performance and interoffice communication. Timely one-on-one dialogues with your employees can be infinitely more effective and economical.