Redefining Business Category: Kevin Brennan, An Awesome Human
The Central West End neighborhood of St. Louis houses a great deal of retail entrepreneurial drive. Almost every kind of ethnic dish (from burgers to grasshopper tacos) is...
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Managing For Happiness Book Review
Managing for Happiness Games, Tools and Practices to Motivate Any Team is Jurgen Appelo’s new book published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Jurgen is currently on a worldwide...
The Real Reason Why Productivity is Low
Our good friend, Dave Gray is featured in this fascinating article about company culture by Alexander Osterwalder. Oftentimes companies allow culture to "just happen" over time. This lack of...
Love in Leadership Transforms Business Culture
"You cannot simply change an organization's culture. What you can change are your own behaviors and your influence." -Jurgen Appelo At the Be Human Project we work to...
Want Your Employees to Speak Up? Be an Inclusive Leader.
A vocal workforce fuels business. Feeling valued and sharing opinions creates a company culture that benefits shareholders, employers and employees. But how do you cultivate this type of...
Focusing on the People
The Be Human Project strives to embolden business leaders to focus not just on markets, products or margins but on the people that make an institution possible. This...
Our Work Shapes US
Practical wisdom is missing from our work life. That's what psychologist Barry Schwartz, Dorwin Cartwright Professor of social theory and social action at Swarthmore College, believes. Schwartz explains the...
Geese, Not in Bottles, As Leaders
Huawei, a Chinese tech firm and competitor of Apple and Samsung, introduced a new leadership style in 2012 – a rotating CEO/Executive Management Team (EMT) structure based on...
Musical Leadership: Control and Collaboration
Conductor and Maestro Leadership Program founder Itay Talgam's October 2009 TEDtalk Lead like the great conductors is about how great conductors demonstrate different qualities of leadership. The true nature...
Cardinal Rules for Leadership
While the Cardinals played the Mets in a four game series, Forbes released a brief review of Mike Matheny, his management of the St. Louis Cardinals and his...