Simple Way to Increase Your Engagement at Work by Michael Parke & Justin Weinhardt

A 2016 poll by the Gallup Organization shows that only 13% of employees worldwide are engaged at work. It comes as no surprise that many employees have to work in environments that aren't very engaging. Most of the efforts made to make the workplace more engaging focus on organizational factors, which the employee has no control over. How can we improve this all to common scenario?....Read more

Great Leadership Starts With Self-Leadership by Lars Sudmann

In this talk, leadership expert, Lars Sudmann, argues that great leaders most likely had to overcome the "leadership formula of doom" before they went on to develop themselves as a leader. He poses the question of what would leadership in Utopia look like? Utilizing these ideas he provides three strategies on self-leadership to develop yourself into a "Utopia leader"....Watch the video

27 Incredible Examples Of AI And Machine Learning In Practice by Bernard Marr

More and more everyday we are finding new ways to put Artificial Intelligence and machine learning to use. Take a look at these incredible uses of AI and machine learning that are working everywhere from behind the scenes in our everyday lives to optimizing the operations of some of the world's leading companies....Read more 

How To Speak So That People Want To Listen by Julian Treasure

Do you ever feel like what you're trying to communicate falls on deaf ears? In this video, the successful sound expert explains some useful vocal exercises and provides advice on how to speak with empathy. Improve your listening and understanding skills....Watch the video

What Great Leaders Actually Do by Brandon Burchard

How can we become better at gaining influence and leading others? In this episode of the youtube series "The Charged Life," the popular motivational coach shares six practices of effective leadership in eleven minutes....Watch the video

Negotiation Tips: Listening Skills for Dealing with Difficult People by Harvard's "Program on Negotiation"

Listening skills are crucial to being a great negotiator, but that is easier said than done. It is common for people to jump right into telling the other party why they are wrong, without taking time to hear them out. Learn how to improve your listening skills with these tips....Read more

How Humble Leadership Really Works by Dan Cable

Top-down leadership can be counterproductive. Don't lose sight of the real purpose of being a leader, to bring out the best of your employees. Instead of focusing solely on end goals, focus more on making your employees feel purposeful and energized, so they can perform their best work....Read more

Body Language: The Key to Your Subconscious by Ann Washburn

How we move and present our bodies both demonstrates and determines the person we are and how successful we are. Do you know what your body language is telling people about yourself? And more importantly, what it's telling your self about yourself? This Ted Talk gives an honest and insightful overview of our body language and how we can improve it....Watch the video

How To Stop Negative Thoughts From Sabotaging Your Success by Susan Murphy

Did you know that an instinctual part of your brain may be controlling you and trying to prevent your success? Learn to recognize it and you can begin to tame it and achieve all the goals you desire. This article discusses part of our brain that functions similarly to that of a Tortoise, this is the part of your brain that wants to prevent you from changing....Read more

How AI Can Bring On A Second Industrial Revolution by Kevin Kelly

In this Ted Talk, founding executive editor of Wired magazine discusses how he thinks that over the next 20 years, our tendency to make things smarter and smarter will have a profound impact on nearly everything we do. In this talk he focuses on three trends in AI we need to understand in order to embrace it and have some control over its development. "The most popular AI product 20 years from now that everyone uses has not been invented yet," Kelly says. "That means that you're not late"....Watch the video

Whiteboard Session: How to Get Up to Speed in Your New Leadership Role by Harvard Business Review

Why do so many leaders fail or underperform when joining new companies? This video explains how to it is crucial to focus your energy on specific goals and how to approach a new leadership position from technical, cultural, and political perspectives. Learn to avoid the common mistakes that many fall victim to during the onboarding process....Watch the video

Artificial Intelligence And Its Impact On Contingent Workforce Management by Ted Sergott

One of the most important tasks in a business is finding and hiring the ideal candidates. "74% of employers claim they've hired the wrong person for a position." These mistakes waste a ton of money and time. This article explains how AI could increase hiring success and deepen the understanding of a company's workforce....Read more

How Great Leaders Inspire Action by Simon Sinek

Through Sinek's fascination of great leaders throughout history, he has discovered some remarkable patterns in how they think, act and communicate. Get inspired by Simon Sinek's powerful yet simple leadership model, which begins with a golden circle and the question "Why?" In this Ted Talk he uses examples such as Apple, Martin Luther King, and the Wright brothers....Watch the video

Run More Effective Meetings With These 9 Questions by Jim Ludema and Amber Johnson

"The average executive spends 23 hours of their week in meetings, and 71 percent say these meetings are unproductive and inefficient." Stop wasting your time and energy. Meetings should create opportunities for discussions and questions that spark creative ideas. Take a step back, rethink and reframe your meetings with these nine questions....Read more

Know Your Worth, And Then Ask For It by Casey Brown

Are you getting paid what you're truly worth? Chances are that you're getting paid what your boss thinks you're worth instead. In this Ted Talk, pricing consultant, Casey Brown, shares stories and lessons that can help you to better communicate your value to your boss. It's time that you got paid what you deserve....Watch the video

Successful Strategies For A Win-Win Negotiation by Nirmala Reddy

Want to be successful in every negotiation you make? A negotiation should not be about one party winning and the other party losing, it should be about discussing their interests and finding mutual benefits for each other. Check out these strategies and tactics to create a win-win for both parties....Read more

Business Mastery: Constant & Strategic Innovation by Tony Robbins

Do you feel connected and passionate about your work or are you just working because you feel like you have no other choice. If you're not working towards something you believe in, you should change career paths. If changing career paths sounds impossible, try to change your mindset because it's not. "Impossible is not a fact, it's an opinion," says Tony Robbins....Listen to the podcast

Let Artificial Intelligence Earn Your Trust by Chuck Hollis

Artificial Intelligence is like a new coworker, initially under intense scrutiny, but over time people understand they are good at and where they might have problems. AI continues to get better at what they do and earn more trust. AI will eventually provide humans with many opportunities to evolve forward toward more meaningful and impactful work. People need time to adjust to AI, just like they need time to adjust to new coworkers....Read more

How to Be A Great Leader: Inspiring Others To Do Remarkable Things by Marie Forleo

In this video Marie Forleo, thought leader and business guru, sits down with Simon Sinek, author of Leaders Eat Last, to chat about how we can transform ourselves into great leaders in business and in life. This video demonstrates how to use your biology in order to build a safe environment where your team feels inspired to achieve remarkable things....Watch the video

Integrative Negotiations, Value Creation, and Creativity at the Bargaining Table by Project On Negotiation Staff

Sometimes we get so used to our routines that we start to lack creativity. How can we change our mindset to be more creative and more likely to create value during integrative negotiations? Here are some tips for obtaining more creative deals with your counterpart in negotiation....Read more

3 Ways to Improve Your Decision Making by Walter Frick

Learning to make smarter decisions starts with becoming better at making predictions. This article discusses three simple rules that can help. The first is to be less certain because we tend to be overconfident. Secondly, ask yourself "How often does that typically happen?" Thirdly, improve your understanding of of probability....Read more

Crucibles of Leadership by Warren Bennis & Robert J. Thomas

What makes a good leader? It seems that there is no easy answer to this question, but research has shown that those who can overcome adversity and find positive meaning in negative events tend to make great leaders. These attributes allow leaders to grow from their struggles, instead of being destroyed by them-to find opportunity where others might find only despair....Read more

When you're making a deal, what's going on in your brain? by TedxCaltech with Colin Camerer

Behavioral economist shows research that reveals just how inaccurate we are when we try to predict what other people are thinking during negotiations. It turns out that chimpanzees may be better at this than us....Watch the video

Margaret Neale: Negotiation: Getting What You Want

Margaret Neale is a negotiation expert from Stanford University. Her research applies cognitive psychology to negotiation strategies. She believes that, "Negotiation is problem solving. The goal is not to get a deal; the goal is to get a good deal." Learn how to prepare for negotiations with the following questions: Why are you asking? How are you asking? For whom are you asking?....Watch the video

How to Bounce Back After a Failed Negotiation by Carolyn O'Hara

Not all negotiations go as planned, no matter how much you prepare. A failed negotiation can leave you feeling like the "loser." Don't let this disappointing situation get you down. How do you make sure your reputation isn't damaged and the relationship with your counterpart is intact?....Read more

The Most Common Type of Incompetent Leader by Scott Gregory

The popular media is full of examples of bad leaders in government, academia, and business. But the most common kind of incompetent leader isn't the ranting, narcissistic sociopath that might immediately come to mind. Instead, it's the "absentee leader" - those in leadership roles are physically there but missing psychologically. People want a leader who is around when needed, and who gives them substantive advice, not platitudes....Read more

The Benefits Of Everyday Negotiations by Ashira Prossack

If you try to recall the last time you negotiated, big events like contracts or salary probably come to mind, but really if you think about it, we're always negotiating. All of these small negotiations make great practice for when the more important ones come up. We use the same skills and tactics no matter the size of the negotiation. Negotiation becomes a whole lot less intimidating once you realize how often you do it....Read more

Will robots take your job? Humans ignore the coming AI revolution at their peril. by Subhash Kak

Modern civilization needs employment - not simply for our livelihoods, but for our emotional wellbeing. Already, artificial intelligence (AI) machines can do many tasks where learning and judgment is required. So are we approaching a jobless future, or will new jobs replace the ones that are lost?....Read more

5 Techniques Top-Notch Leaders Use To Avoid Strategic Distractions by Ann Latham

It can be difficult to avoid distractions that pull us and our teams away from strategic priorities. Across every organization, there is too much to do and yet it's common to see many hours devoted to less important tasks while strategic priorities fall behind. What's to do?.... Read more

How to Think for Yourself When Algorithms Control What You Read by Marc Zao-Sanders

The ability for a small group of elite people to instantly alter the thoughts and behavior of billions of people is unprecedented. With the flick of a switch, the nature and extent of mankind's ingestion of information can completely change. Media platforms are constantly changing their algorithms to better understand their users.... Read more

How to Prepare for a Crisis You Couldn't Possibly Predict by Chris Clearfield & András Tilcsik

Everybody has to deal with unexpected crises now and again. Some people are better than others at handling the unexpected, but in general these are difficult situations. Learn how to prepare for and stay calm in times of crisis so that you can find solutions more efficiently.... Read more

Today's Must-Reads For Entrepreneurs: Increased Regulation, #DeleteFacebook, Seattle's VC Problem by Loren Feldman

Stay up to date on today's top news stories and insights in the business world from across the web....Read more

Your Business Will Employ Drones, Maybe Sooner Than You Think by Jake Rheude

Despite significant regulatory hurdles in the United States, drone startups are increasing drastically. If you think that your industry has no use for drones, ask yourself if your competitors would agree. In the near future, the question may become not whether you should employ drones, but how many drones you can afford to deploy....Read more

5 Big Technology Innovations Of 2018: IBM Reveals Amazing Developments That Will Impact All Of Us by Bernard Marr

From micro-cameras powered by Artificial-Intelligence monitoring the world's oceans to the graduation of quantum computers from the lab into the real world, this article provides a summary of technological breakthroughs that are having major impacts on our lives.... Read more

What Kind of Leadership Works Best at Your Company? by Deborah Ancona & Hal Gregersen

Innovative companies such as Amazon and Tesla are always coming up with new products and services, but they are also in the business of producing leadership styles. Different versions of leadership can be something very important and innovative for these distinctive companies as well.... Read more

Know Your Customers' "Jobs to be done" by Clayton M. Christensen

Companies know more about their customers than ever before, so why do so many of their innovation efforts continue to fail? One theory is that product developers spend too much time building customer profiles and looking for correlations in data. In order to innovate successfully and create products that people truly want to buy, firms should focus on the jobs their customers are trying to get done. We can think about buying a product as hiring someone to help up do a job, so if it does the job well we will hire it again and visa versa.... Read more

Control the Negotiation Before It Begins by Deepak Malhotra

There is plenty of advice out there on how to avoid mistakes at the bargaining table, but some of the most fatal mistakes occur before the negotiators sit down together. People tend to be over confident when they feel they have the upper hand in a negotiation, so they don't take extra time properly prepare themselves. This article presents four factors to consider prior to negotiation that can have a massive impact on outcomes....Read more

Why Everyone Must Get Ready For The 4th Industrial Revolution by Bernard Marr

The future is happening around us, we must accept the changes and learn to thrive in the new industrial revolution. We are facing a wide variety of new technologies that mix together the physical, digital and biological worlds. These new technologies will effect all disciplines, economies and industries, and even challenge our ideas about humanity. How can we prepare ourselves?.... Read more

Replace Micromanaging With Macromanaging For Leadership Success by Janet Britcher

Micromanaging can be demotivating and inhibit innovation. Take a step back and a new approach with Macromanaging, which sets clear expectations and defines how performance will be measured. Macromanaging accepts input and is open to changing processes. Learn how to Macromanage and make your team more effective and efficient.... Read more

Negotiation Examples in Real Life - Buying a Home and Dealing with Difficult People by PON Staff

Avoid this common negotiation pitfall when buying your dream home. Harvard's "Program on Negotiation" tends to discuss negotiation theory and the latest research, but this article discusses a familiar negotiation example in real life and offers tips and advice. Many of us need to bargain in a real estate deal at some point or another....Read more

Seven Secrets To Help Your Team Find Motivation by Greg Salciccioli

Every leader wants to know the secret behind the challenge of keeping your team motivated. The reality is that there is no secret, but the business world has been ignoring the science behind motivation. Promotions and monetary rewards only work for a small percentage of top-performers. True motivation come from within.... Read more

Bye-Bye, Heroic Leadership. Here Comes Shared Leadership by Carsten Tams

This blog series inspires us to imagine organizational change in new ways. Workplaces are becoming more information intensive and depending on collaboration among multiple specialized contributors, because of this we are moving away from having just one powerful leader and moving towards inclusive and continuous leadership styles throughout many networks.... Read more

Are the Most Innovative Companies Just the Ones With the Most Data? by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger & Thomas Ramge

Businesses have to continue innovating, or else they will be taken over by new, more creative competitors. Is it possible that this could no longer be true? The source of innovation is changing - from human ingenuity to data-driven machine-learning, which could prove to be a problem. If innovation is depends on data rather than human ideas, the ones that benefit are the ones that have access to the most data.... Read more

6 Good Reasons To Spend More Time Developing Your Employees by Victor Lipman

It's easy to put employee development on the back burner because these types of activities have long term payoffs. Many people know it is something that they should do more of but don't prioritize it because they are too busy. Employee development can be extremely beneficial and profitable to businesses and greatly appreciated by employees, here are some reasons you should invest more time on it....Read more

Could Your Personality Derail Your Career? by Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

There are many of our personal characteristics that come into play in the workplace, besides the evidently important ones, like intelligence and ambition. Everyone has weaknesses in their personalities, which may seem harmless and irrelevant or even beneficial at work; In reality, these personality traits can wreak havoc on careers and organizations if left unchecked....Read more

Research: Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence? by Alan Benson, Danielle Li and Kelly Shue

Studies have shown that organizations manage careers so that everyone "rises to the level of their incompetence." For example, the best salespeople were promoted, but the better they were at sales, the worse they were at managing. How can we reward people in a way that they can continue what they are good at? .... Read more 

The Secrets of Great Teamwork by Martine Haas & Mark Mortensen

Collaboration has undoubtedly become more complex as teams have grown more diverse, dispersed, digital, and dynamic. Surprisingly, it seems like what matters most isn't the personalities or behavior of the team members; it's whether a team has a shared mindset, compelling direction, a strong structure, and a supportive context. Successful teamwork depends on these core values....Read more 

How to Deal with the Irrational Parts of a Negotiation by Joseph Grenny

Too often, we stay solely focused on the topic of our negotiations and we neglect to account for the human dynamics that drive it. But even small changes in your approach can completely change the outcomes of your most crucial negotiations....Read more

Recipe For Success: Managing A Remote Workforce by Sylvia Vorhauser-Smith

The benefits of a remote workforce are compelling; they include increased productivity, improved health and well-being for workers, to name a few. Overcoming the challenges confronting leaders of remote workers need not be daunting.... Read more

As AI Makes More Decisions, the Nature of Leadership Will Change by Tomas Chamorro, Michael Wade, and Jennifer Jordan

It's tempting to regard artificial intelligence as a threat to human leadership. After all, the very purpose of AI is to augment, improve, and ultimately replace human intelligence. There is no reason to believe that leadership will be spared the impact of AI.... Read more

Barriers and Gateways to Communication by Carl R. Rogers & F. J. Roethlisberger

The biggest obstacle to communication seems to be people's tendency to evaluate rather than listen. Fortunately, people can learn to listen with understanding, which can lessen their evaluative impulses and greatly improve their communication with others....Read more

How Artificial Intelligence Is Scaling Human Communication The Right Way by Bryan Kramer

There are a lot of conversations going on about the impact that emerging and current technology will have on our society, particularly the unknown consequences and whether we really want the future that's being proposed to us. Technology should be used to improve communication, not hinder it.... Read more

How to Collaborate Effectively If Your Team Is Remote by Erica Dhawan & Tomas Chamorro

Good communication can be a huge challenge these days, as more of our communication takes place digitally and more teams work remotely. How can we try to avoid the inevitable misunderstandings and miscommunications that occur in our digital world? We can start by making an active effort to be ultra-clear.... Read more

How This One Counterintuitive Tip Can Help You Win A Tough Negotiation by Tanya Tarr

Empathy - the ability to understand and relate to the feelings of another person - is an overlooked concept in today's politically segregated world. Many experts consider acts of empathy in the workplace a crucial leadership skill. But what if you're negotiating with someone who doesn't share the same values as you.... Read more

Self-Awareness Can Help Leaders More Than an MBA Can by Rasmus Hougaard

Only about 40% of CEOs are MBAs. Studies have even shown that leadership based solely on MBA-trained-logic is not enough and is actually detrimental to a company. Leaders need to be convincing and authentic.... Read more

4 Glaring Reasons Why You Must Put Clarity First - Reasons Like Profits And Productivity by Ann Latham

It is easy to be blind to the lack of clarity surrounding us, this article discusses why we should be more aware of this and make clarity a priority. No matter your goals, bringing more clarity to your life will bring a lot of opportunities.... Read more

Five Questions You Need To Ask Yourself Before Implementing AI by Falon Fatemi

Nowadays it seems like Artificial Intelligence is flipping the traditional workplace upside down. Choosing and implementing new technologies can be extremely beneficial but also overwhelming, here are some things you must consider .... Read more

4 Ways to Build an Innovative Team by Greg Satell

Every company is looking for more energetic, bold people that bring good ideas to the table, how can we find them?... Read more

How to Make the Right Connections When You Don't Already Have an "In" by Dorie Clark

If you've changed locations or entered a new field of work, you may be having a hard time trying to find the right people to connect you to business opportunities. This article covers five strategies to help you expand your network.... Read more

New Currency to Build Empires on a Budget by Mark Gold

This article isn't about Bitcoin, it's about "access currency." In business, access currency refers to the exchange of valuable goods, information and services under a mutually beneficial barter system....Read more

Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time by Tony Schwartz and Catherine McCarthy

Working around the clock leads to burnout, increasing your energy is the best way to get more done, faster and better.... Read more

Everyone Tells You to Think Outside The Box. Here's How To Actually Do it. by William Donius

It's easy for our brains to get stuck with familiar patterns and routines, which is why we are often encouraged to somehow "think outside the box." Learn how to tap into your creativity.... Read more

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