Leadership
Discerning Fact from Fiction – Truth from Lies?
Opening Insights: "...Exploiting the Vulnerabilities of Human Psychology..." In 2017 Sean Parker, the first president of Facebook told the world what he and other social media and entertainment executives and companies knowingly did and do... [...]
What happens when the media’s priority is profit?
Opening Insights: Media Today The integrity of the media has been questioned left, right and center. The reality is we are in a state of affairs where we don't know who or what to believe. [...]
AI Revolution and DeepMind’s AlphaZero
Opening Insights: The Rise of AI Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind... it comes with colossal opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to predict. Whoever becomes the [...]
Working on Addiction in the Workplace
Opening Insights: Addiction in the Workplace More than 70% of individuals with alcohol or illicit drug use continue to maintain employment, as many employees with alcohol or other drug problems can continue to remain “functioning.” [...]
When Retention and Results Count!
Opening Insights: Employee Crisis There is a global talent shortage and employment crisis. It is the new pandemic of our times - affected and infected by our socio-cultural. In a new Korn Ferry study that [...]
The Vision is Global
Opening Insights: Collaboration Huh? Collaboration is a word we all know, yet few of us truly understand because we have yet to really experience it. Many of us think that collaboration is "waiting for our [...]
Jeff Bezos tells employees ‘one day Amazon will fail’
Opening Insights: "Not too big to fail!" As America witnesses the fall of the once world's largest retail chain, SEARS… Jeff Bezos, Amazon's founder warns his staff that like SEARS: "Amazon is not too big [...]
The End of a Legacy… WHO CARES!?!
Opening Insights: An Empire ...Once a pioneer to the department store industry, Sears struggled in a quickly shifting retail environment, battered by competition from big-box stores and then by the meteoric rise of Amazon and [...]
A Corporate Response to The Millennial Challenge
Opening Insights: A Cultural Challenge Instant gratification. That is what drives the personal computer / smartphone generation. Technology conditioned them to need to instantly (without cost or effort) find the answers to all their questions. [...]
For Once, I’m Grateful for Trump
Opening Insights: Questioning Are you grateful to or for President Trump? How do you see him? What do you see him doing or having done? “For Once, I’m Grateful for Trump…” is an article published [...]
Today’s Leadership Style: FEAR to Motivate
Opening Insights: Motivation How do we motivate people today – from baby boomers to Gen Zs? What supports people in taking action – personally and professionally; to move forward and drive their lives? FEAR? HOPE? TRUST? [...]
Grassroots Community Inclusion
Opening Insights: Community Power in the Micro and Macro We are not pursuing Artificial Intelligence to beat humans... we are pursuing AI so that we can empower every person and institution that people build with tools [...]
Transcending Adversity to Diversity
Opening Insights: A Viking CEO and A Catholic Priest We are not pursuing Artificial Intelligence to beat humans... we are pursuing AI so that we can empower every person and institution that people build with tools of [...]
“Finding Your Passion” Is an Ineffective Way to Live Your Life, Say Scientists
Opening Insights: "Find Yourself Generation" I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. ALBERT EINSTEIN The millennial generation is often identified as the "ME" generation - the lost and narcissistic generation in search [...]
Employee Empowered Co-Lab™: Followship-Leadership
Opening Insights: An Employee Perspective Like many others, our work environment faces many challenges. They are not unique to us nor to our company. However, the amount and severity of them do seem to be [...]
The Future of Arizona, The Republicans and the Nation
Opening Insights: No Fear to Speak, At Deaths Door The reality of mortality leaves us in a place of deep reflection and candor. To avoid regrets, no holds are barred and no truth is too [...]
Employee Empowered Co-Lab™: Followship Discovers
Opening Insights: Seeking Clarity A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES A Collaboration Laboratory Institute (Co-Lab™) focuses on empowering cultural transformation, raising human intelligence (with experiential learning) and restoring solidarity [...]
Employee Empowered Co-Lab™: Followship Takes Flight
Opening Insights: From the Cockpit to the Conference Room Creative minds don't follow rules, they follow will. AMIT KALANTRI A Collaboration Laboratory Institute (Co-Lab™) focuses on empowering cultural transformation, raising human intelligence (with experiential learning) [...]
Employee Empowered Co-Lab™: A Leader Emerges
Opening Insights: A Co-Lab™ Awakens One of the newest figures to emerge on the world stage in recent years is the social entrepreneur. This is usually someone who burns with desire to make a positive [...]