Our treatment of each other as humans is what ultimately brings success. Here are five ideas from our book “Everything Connects – How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation and Sustainability” for connecting with the people to move your initiatives forward.
Changing self-doubt into self-belief is a choice. We are answerable for ourselves. Only we can change what and who we are.
Self-sabotage is any behavior, thought, emotion, or action that holds you back. Here’s how to stop sabotaging ourselves.
Mental toughness comes from compassion and vulnerability. Vulnerability can be defined as the diminished capacity to anticipate, cope with, resist and recover from the impact of a hostile situation. Compassion means, “to suffer together.”
We are all constantly forced to reinvent, and that takes entrepreneurial thinking with deliberate mindset, habits, and surroundings.
Inspiration can come from anywhere and anyone. Mine often comes from books and movies — books and movies that combine life stories with a spiritual journey.
Whether deliberately designed or not, every organization has an identity, both tangibly — that is, in the design and feel of the products and services it brings into the world — and intangibly — in the way people relate emotionally to the organization.
Successful businesses manage innovation from concept to commercialization. Here’s how to bring this understanding to your company culture.
Progress certainly comes from putting in the hard work, but working hard is not enough.
Leadership boils down to arranging circumstances for the people they are caretaking—or curating—so that they may flourish.
To survive and thrive we need to find ways to deal with pressure and uncertainty. Here are 10 tips that will help you on a daily basis.
Being a spiritual minimalist also means not succumbing to the negativity around us. We may not be able to avoid all negativity, but we can limit our exposure to it.
Working smarter requires a combination of critical thinking, discipline, and techniques that we can employ for making continual progress.
To be an entrepreneur, you have to be willing to jump into the deep end. And that takes courage. But courage is just the beginning. At a fundamental level, most entrepreneurs need to repeatedly overcome adversity and pursue opportunities with very limited resources.
Forget Trying to Be an Expert, a Beginner’s Mind is What Allows Us to Creatively Move Ourselves Forward. BY FAISAL HOQUE | January 9, 2015 What kind of mind do you want? What kind of mind do you want your team to have? If you want to be thought an expert—you may favor having a full mind. After all, it’s rather impressive to know many things, to be a fount of knowledge. But expertise implies a sort of rigidity; if your mind is full, it cannot accept more information or possibilities. This is why we need to maintain what Buddhists refer to as beginner’s mind—a certain playful absence of assumptions. What is Beginner’s Mind? Shunyru Suzuki writes in Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind, “In the
In an age of unanswerable questions, asking the right question might just be the answer.
Each one of us is born to make an authentic contribution. Authenticity does not come from title, social stature, or the size of one’s paycheck but rather from how we live. Truly authentic people lead with their soul. Along with fearless passion and courage, they possess relentless mental discipline.
The key to solving complex problems may be to simplify as much as possible and approach them with a beginner’s mind.
