article thumbnail

Susan Cain’s New Book Explores the Question: What Is Sadness Good For?

Success

Docter was scheduled to screen the film in progress for Pixar’s executive team. Keltner taught Docter and his team the functions of each major emotion: Fear keeps you safe. Copyright © 2022 by Susan Cain. The post Susan Cain’s New Book Explores the Question: What Is Sadness Good For? The third act didn’t work.

Monster 130
article thumbnail

I Shared My OCD Struggles with 11,000 Employees—Their Responses Showed Me the Importance of Vulnerability in Leadership

Success

We are all books, and we each have many chapters. It’s not until you open the book and read those chapters that you understand why someone thinks or behaves as they do. I am a book, and I have an OCD chapter. No company or team can function at its highest capacity without vulnerable leaders. Be curious, not judgmental.”

Medical 322
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How Designers Can Set The Stage For A Flexible Future

Allwork

This empowers teams to plan their in-office time to prioritize activities that offer the biggest benefits for in-person engagement. Continuous listening and learning from staff feedback allows leadership to best understand how and where team members want to work and where friction points lie. 2) What did you accomplish? Technology Hub.

article thumbnail

Stacey Abrams’ New Co-Authored Book Details the Struggles Black Entrepreneurs Still Face and Why Business Partnership Differences Can Be Your Superpower

Success

And we got to see each other pursue a passion to reform part of the state’s foster-care system through the community service project our team spearheaded. Copyright © 2022 by Stacey Y. We got to see each other be vulnerable and uncomfortable. We got to see each other learn. Our work cemented our mutual respect. Abrams and Lara Hodgson.

article thumbnail

These Are the 45 Most Important Minutes of Your Day

Success

Think how much better it would be to read an inspirational autobiography or a self-improvement book instead. The reason that is important is that “it created the team spirit we were lacking.” The next action I could take is to form a committee with specific team members to plan the day. Copyright ©2005 Jack Canfield.

2005 307
article thumbnail

Rule No. 1 of Workplace Inclusion: It Only Works if Everyone Buys In

Success

It can look like a white employee’s getting promoted simply because a minority employee with a more senior role joined the team. Excerpted from SEEN, HEARD, AND PAID copyright © 2022 by Alan Henry. Used by permission of Rodale Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.

AT&T 280
article thumbnail

4 ways to make people feel valued at work, even when you’re not all together

Ideas.Ted

Considering a perhaps permanent transition to digital communications, an increased amount of remote work, smaller, flatter teams and an accelerated pace of change, it’s never been more critical to show the people we work with that we respect and appreciate them. To address this, Lisa has created a process following every monthly team call.

Email 131