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More trust with fewer rules leads to excellence
There is a paradox at the heart of managing people: while trust and affirmation are the foundation of the best functioning companies, nations, and families, strict enforcement of laws is also necessary when trust breaks down. How do you balance these seemingly conflicting approaches? It's a challenge that requires both strategic thinking and emotional intelligence.
Resilient leaders believe in a future they help shape
Leaders who possess resilience firmly believe in the power of shaping the future they envision.
Can AI offer a productivity break-through for professional service firms?
Explore the possibilities of a game-changing productivity boost for professional service firms with the integration of AI technology.
Solutions to our challenges can come from unexpected places
The main finding that psychosocial interventions can have a substantial positive effect on the economic and psychological welfare of poor people
Without trust the nation falls apart
Trustworthiness is required for any organisation to achieve its purpose
Use 2023 to infect your workplace with empathy
The workplace is much better and more enjoyable when we also grow talent, keep conflict under control and explore new ways to add to human and environmental health and happiness.
Artificial Intelligence is coming to small business near you
ChatGPT responds to requests in conversational English, allowing even non-techies to use AI.
Requiring too much compliance can damage business
We should spend at least as much time encouraging excellence and innovation as requiring compliance.
Spreading kindness makes better companies
Kindness is contagious and has the potential to make the world a better place. Showing kindness does well for both the giver and the recipient. An act of kindness can make someone's day and help improve both your mental and physical health.
Maintaining infrastructure should be higher on the agenda
Infrastructure maintenance helps us invest in the future rather than cleaning up the past. Failure to maintain our infrastructure leads to degradation of the infrastructure, which affects our economy and leads to high cost of reconstruction over time.
What shall we do with our anger?
Anger management is good, but tends to focus on reducing our anger and managing its impact on us. A better approach may be to harness anger for constructive action to change the conditions that made us angry.
Innovation can feed millions in Africa
Food systems and food security are important in Africa just now. With fertilizer supplies disrupted by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, wide spread weather disruptions, fuel price increases and infrastructural challenges, many people are in danger of starving.