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Future-oriented insight for leaders & change-makers:
Journalism and the truth about comments
If you have read comments on published articles, it doesn’t deliver faith in who we are as citizens. It’s time to recognize the importance of constructive, issue-based comments.
By nature, we are interdependent
The power outage crises in Texas showed the weakness of independence, but the community showed its strength when supporting each other in its aftermath.
The social responsibility of business. Ignore Milton Friedman.
The Business Roundtable statement brought economist Milton Friedman to the front pages again.
Social entrepreneurs boost social capital
Loneliness grows in communities and workplaces. Forty percent of American adults feel lonely, and many workers, including CEOs, feel the same way.
Business leaders need moral courage
In the last discussion of my doctorate leadership ethics class, a challenging question was posed: How can we develop organizations and institutions that support good leadership?
The next logical step toward stakeholder capitalism
With the rise of employee activism and many corporations facing this new trend, what if the next iteration is employees on the board of directors?
Universal Basic Income: A brief history and exploration
When we discuss the future of work, how individuals should be compensated and what businesses should do to enforce fair pay, an old idea has resurrected — universal basic income (UBI).
Transform personal brand and shareholder value
When I started working in the mid-1980s, I never thought about personal brand. Personal branding was not a thing. Today, it is what most people seem to be doing. Type in “personal branding” and over 28 million Google results appear.
Building character
The dirty chores at home on the farm were always “character-building.” My dad always used to say that shoveling out the hog barn “builds character.” What I knew at the time is that the only thing it built was a healthy smell that lingered way too long.