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...
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The Choices We Make
“Marketing used to be what you say … now, marketing is what you do. What you make. How you act. The choices you make when you are sure...
Human-Based Leadership Rewarded: Employees Strike to Reinstate Former CEO
America’s history is marked with strikes led by under-valued workers demanding treatment as humans instead of a faceless workforce. When grocery store employees decided to strike for two...
Office Politics
The most important issue you will face at work is the one thing they never teach you: office politics. It’s often the worst criticism you can level at...
What About the Numbers?
Former Southwest Airlines founder and CEO Herbert Kelleher said, “Anyone who puts things solely in terms of factors that can be quantified is missing the heart of business:...
What’s in a name?
William Shakespeare said, "What's in a name?" It’s the sweetest sound in the world when we hear it spoken aloud. When someone speaks our name, especially in a kind...
Be Human Salon with Dave Gray
What does it mean to be a “connected” company? We explored this topic at the second Be Human Project Salon at the newly unveiled space of the bigwidesky office...
Be Human Salon: The Right Connection
A salon? That’s what my invitation says: “The Be Human Salon Featuring Special Guest Dave Gray.” Let me tell you why I’m so excited about what is, in...
Hack: The System of Leadership
The challenge many leaders face today is a worldwide decline in trust for leadership as well as employee engagement. The problem is that the organizational structure we are...
Workplace Strategies that Enhance Health and Wellness
Something that we often do not take much time to think about are the environments in which we are working. But we should probably be taking them a...