For a socially responsible business, flexible working isn’t just nice to have – it’s a vital part of using work to make the world a better place. Social responsibility starts at home, and unless you treat your employees right then everything else is just an add-on....
An Emotionally Positive Workplace Emotions are great for work. If people are allowed to bring their feelings into the workplace then their passion will show, engagement will rise, and you’ll free up the energy that might otherwise be spent on repressing those...
Why Businesses Need to Act Openly, Inside as Well as Out “Word spread because word will spread. Stories and secrets fight, stories win, shed new secrets, which new stories fight, and on.” ― China Miéville, Embassytown If ever a case needed to be made for greater...
Top-down and bottom-up leadership are often presented as incompatible choices. Advocates of each will tell you why their way works well and the other is a disaster. But when we stop to think, all good leaders know that life is never a simple choice between two...
The recent outcry over Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and its potential use to discriminate against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community has caused a storm that has drawn businesses into a controversial legal and ethical...
You might not know it from the way we sometimes talk, but business is all about people. In the spirit of keeping that in focus, here are some of the human-centered trends that we can expect to see in 2015. Customer, Customer, Customer British Prime Minister Tony Blair...