Stronger together: Building employee-employer bonds
Meaningful work and commercial profit can seem at odds, with corporate incentives usually winning out. However, as Daniel Goodenough explains, business needs to focus on helping employees cultivate their sense of purpose in this world
Lisa Miller, professor of clinical psychology at Columbia University, uses the term, dysthymia to describe what she calls “the low grade feeling that life is unfulfilling.” In her book The Awakened Brain, Miller maintains that this feeling affects well-adjusted high achievers, who have this sentence running in their heads: “If I can just make it through x, y, z, then I can advance, then I can rest, then I can be happy.”
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The Insight That Got Away
How do you sense what’s next for your company and/or your team? Do you have a way of tracking the insights that are personal to you, as a leader, and not just insights that come from the flywheel? In a recent introductory course to The HuPerson’s DesignOS, we had an inspired conversation about tracking insights […]
The Point of Purpose
A company’s sense of purpose is receiving increasing attention in the business world, giving us a more sophisticated understanding of its role beyond augmenting the bottom line. Should we then be looking at imbedding a process for achieving purpose, asks Jill Taylor? Our understanding of purpose now includes a developing awareness of the company’s mission […]
The Multiple Strata of Awareness
When talking about awareness, there are many layers, more than we might be present to at first. Why does this matter? Because in a time when we are asked to be aware of multiple, simultaneous unprecedented changes on the planet, which seems to be a new normal, it might be helpful to know what form […]