The subject of purpose in business has become almost commonplace in discussions these days. I certainly have seen a lot of conversations online and, more recently, rooms on Clubhouse centered on the notion of developing purpose. The intentions are inevitably pleasant...
What If Now Is What? Have you ever been in a meeting where, just as it’s finishing, someone pipes up, “Ok, so now what?” It happens quite often, right? I recall many times where I ended up, after attending a meeting, not having the slightest clue of...
Just because you can… should you? In countries around the world grappling with the pandemic, executives are being faced with a large number of difficult decisions. We’ve already seen many companies announce layoffs or, worse, having to shut their doors. For the...
“There is almost total partisanship, both on the right and the left…. neither side talks to the other, and the divide just seems to be getting worse.” Does this sentence resonate at all? It was written by my great-grandfather, Nathaniel Barksdale...
When you are organizing a conference, be it virtual or In Real Life (IRL), among the more commonly used formats is the panel or a roundtable. In either case, the nature of the concept is a meeting of minds, an opportunity for conversation and debate around a given...
Across the 50 or so speeches I’ve made around the launch of my last book, Heartificial Empathy, one of the most recurrent questions is about how to develop more empathy in business. For some, it seems like a frantically urgent need. For others, though, it’s more like...
How to tag someone on LinkedIn if their name doesn’t come up?
