You can forget your Higher Purpose if you are not ready to walk the talk. Just think about it… a very touching paradigm shift has started to transpire in recent years: organizations have finally started to embrace the concept of a higher purpose.
Read MoreEmployees feel that the leadership doesn’t support or encourage people to come up with creative ideas. So what are you going to do to eliminate the discrepancy between what you want and how your employees feel?
Read MoreWhat is your biggest concern for the coming years as a manager or executive? Global recession? Climate change? Political instability? Or rather, developing ‘Next Gen’ leaders and attracting and retaining top talent? If it is the latter, you’re definitely not alone as you fall into that 64 or 60 per cent of leaders, respectively, who when surveyed in the Global Leadership Forecast 2018, said that their biggest concerns for the future were developing effective leaders and attracting and keeping them so that they can successfully tackle the countless challenges ahead.
Read MoreThis article was originally published on election morning, November 8, 2016 by a leading German daily newspaper, Die Welt. Prophetically, they chose to change the original title "Clinton vs. Trump: A Case Study in Persuasion” to "Trump will win - he has a better voice."
Read MoreDo you rejoice or cringe when you hear your own voice? Chances are, you do the latter. Most of us do. Have you ever wondered why? The reasons go beyond the common explanation that our recorded voice sounds more high-pitched than the one we hear ‘through our bones’.
It’s not only sounding more high-pitched than we expect that makes us flinch with frustration and disappointment when we hear our own recorded voice, but also the realization that the way we sound does not match our internal image of ourselves and the image we’d like to project to others.
Read MoreYour organization has a mission statement and a goal and you know how to create economic value. You use training, incentives and enhanced managerial oversight to boost your employees’ performance that might lead to higher earnings. But is that enough?
Do you know that creating an authentic purpose for your company and weaving it through all aspects of company life will boost not only the performance and commitment of your employees, but your financial performance as well? If you have an authentic purpose, the personal and the common good become one, your employees’ engagement levels soar, and your organization will shift smoothly into real transformation: you will do more and you will do it better.
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