Motivational

Motivational

Not All Stories Have Happy Endings—For This Entrepreneur, It Was Still Worth It

In 2010, after losing her fashion design job during The Great Recession, Kristine Deer founded the activewear brand K-DEER. What started as an Etsy store expanded so substantially that celebrities such as Naomi Campbell and Candace Cameron Bure have worn her clothes in magazines, on TV and in their everyday lives. Although the brand overcame

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Why (and How) to Help Your Team Self-Manage in the Future of Work

Customers, employees and stakeholders demand increasingly more from businesses. Unfortunately, hierarchies and centralization prevent companies from evolving and responding as fast as they need to. A 2020 study of 28 companies revealed that 100% of organizations with decentralized management structures experienced positive market-cap growth, while only 33% of companies with traditional structures could say the same. As

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How Practicing Gratitude Can Benefit Physical Health, Mental Well-Being and a Thriving Workplace

Most of us understand, in a vague and general sense, that it’s “good” to be thankful. We’re raised to be appreciative of the things we have; our parents teach us to say “please” and “thank you.” As we get older, though, gratitude doesn’t come up as often. No one reprimands a 35-year-old for forgetting to

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New Year’s Resolutions by Enneagram Type: Which Number Are You?

New Year’s resolutions are a chance to fire up the willpower that waned in the previous year. They’re a chance to resolve to make ourselves do better, live more fully and stop holding ourselves back. That resolve can go a long way—but only if it’s backed up by action items that are tailored to who

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