
CBS News Interview: Workplace Productivity
Faisal Hoque, founder of Shadoka and author of “Survive to Thrive,” shares his insights on how to be resilient and productive in the face of daily stress.

Faisal Hoque, founder of Shadoka and author of “Survive to Thrive,” shares his insights on how to be resilient and productive in the face of daily stress.

Success often results from simple detours or mistakes made by people on alternative quests.

Faisal Hoque, founder of Shadoka and author of “Survive to Thrive,” says while anyone can go out on their own, it’s important to do your homework before jumping head-first.

Serial entrepreneur and noted author Faisal Hoque shows how to create a innovative-based corporate culture that truly meets your customers’ needs.

The implicit — and explicit — expectation is that businesses should “do good” for others, should create something valuable to the world. The question, of course, is how?

Growing a business from scratch isn’t without certain pitfalls. Here are nine ways you might be sabotaging your business without even realizing it.

Where is the leadership? Is it tainted or toppled by hubris, narcissism, megalomania or some other tragic human frailty?

When the odds are long and there’s no help in sight, it’s our own skills that save us.

Our minds have an enormous capacity to connect the invisible dots to guide us to strive for the impossible.

Good Habits Fuel Sustained Effort Needed To Achieve: The fewer number of tasks we try to do, the more effectively we tackle the tasks at hand.

Entrepreneurs are praised for their triumphs, but what about their struggles and the journeys that brought them to success?

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.