The Purpose Effect

Bring joy, check your list twice and make spirits bright: Learn the secrets behind Santa’s impeccable track record of delivering on expectations! He has 364 days to strategize and produce, and one day to execute. He depends on a hard-working team of employees whom he convinced to relocate to the North Pole. He must re-skill his people […]

About the fine line between "I don't care" and "I care about myself more."

Through coaching, you help people realize their potential by increasing their self-knowledge, perception and understanding. Leaders at all levels may start with the following six best practices. Coaching has grown more popular than any other developmental technique in recent years. For one, people crave person-to-person interaction after two years of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions. For another, […]

The search for meaning at work: A more delicate issue than often admitted. People have always sought meaning in their lives: It’s human. And many modern civilizations rest on the quest for understanding. Nevertheless, with the decline of classic “meaning-makers” such as religions, groups and communities that either provide meaning or continually create it, people […]

Embrace corporate social responsibility from the inside out. Businesses understand that having a mission that is greater than the bottom line pays off in many ways. The shift toward conscious capitalism was encapsulated in the “Davos Manifesto 2020,” in which the World Economic Forum calls on organizations to “engage all its stakeholders” by making the […]

Albert Camus’s The Plague Or: Don’t Throw Up Your Hands, Roll Up Your Sleeves! A once-in-a-century event like the COVID-19 pandemic naturally prompts us to look at history for precedents. The Spanish Flu comes to mind. But also literary fiction can offer instructive perspectives on a type of crisis that leaves no one and no […]

Job crafting means proactively shaping your job to enhance your well-being. Although the concept has been around for a while, the pandemic has given it new relevance. Part I of this two-part series looks at what job crafting entails. Many employees don’t work for an organization aspiring to make it onto the “best places to […]

Dan Pontefract & Michael Bungay Stanier on changes leaders need to make to guide their teams into better, more meaningful ways of working. Watch the Webinar: Related Summaries By Dan Pontefract By Michael Bungay Stanier

Now is the time to evaluate what you have learned under the extraordinary pressure of the last weeks – and use that knowledge to influence the future of your organisation. For some people “New Work” simply meant the physical transformation of work. The digitalization of a lot of processes made it possible to free the […]

In his book Open to Think, Dan Pontefract offers strategies for cutting through the clutter, thinking more clearly and making better decisions. His prescription: be more deliberate with your time. getAbstract: Congratulations on the getAbstract International Book Award, Dan. Since your book was published in 2018, it seems people have only gotten busier and more […]