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Mindfulness can easily be thought of as a retreat from the outsized challenges leaders often face. But when things get tough, that’s when your mindfulness practice actually shines. Here’s how taking the time to ask yourself what’s actually happening can make or break your work day.

To shed light on Global Diversity Awareness Month, Kelly Kinnard, VP of Talent at Battery Great, shares that leaders are realizing workplace gender equality isn’t merely about firming up HR policies, but the sometimes-subtle signals employees send and receive about who’s valued & who’s not.

In this unprecedented time of anxiety and confusion, contributor Paul Niven believes organizations should turn, to the use of individual level OKRs. In this article, Niven shares how OKRs can help bring a welcome and comforting source of the ‘normal’ in what is decidedly an abnormal time.

We're bombarded almost daily with the results of polls–but beware of bias and wrong conclusions that can be pulled from the questions asked, the responses and the analysis.

According to Gallup's most recent State of the American Workplace report, 61% of employees say they work remotely at least part-time. That's why it's crucial for companies to create an effective digital workplace culture–a task that's harder digitally than in-person.

It’s more important for success than strategy, technology and even products. The only way for an organization to survive and thrive long-term: The ability to generate and regenerate talent on a continual basis. 

In this article, Contributor Bruce Rosenstein recommends developing your own three-month self-directed course focused on Peter Drucker's body of work to search for and find relevant, actionable information (a key Drucker topic) and turn that information into knowledge.

In many companies, talent acquisition is not forward-thinking, with roles being filled in reaction to someone leaving or when a company gets an infusion of capital. Companies need to take stock of their workforce goals and consider how AI can improve them.

Managing in today's environment requires real understanding of the business, the required skill sets to begin making the future today, the ability to create the right organizational structures to maximize identified opportunities and the know-how to convert into operational reality the right ideas.

In response to widespread calls for social justice throughout the country amidst a global pandemic wreaking havoc on our mental health, many companies are taking a more people-centric approach and have newly committed to creating initiatives and openly discussing D&I in the new remote workplace.

Overcoming resistance to change is often one of the biggest challenges for continuous improvement practitioners. In this article, Dr. Robert Swaim looks at the reasons organizations change and breaks change down in six key areas of impact.

Of late, many have contended that the university has become a credential cartel controlling the rights of entrance into the job market. Further, many are beginning to question the value of an MBA.