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4 Glasses Through Which to See Your Work Differently

Hide Enomoto is a pioneer in professional coaching in his home country Japan and an initiator of the Transition Town movement in Japan as...

Why There Is Not an Ideal Organization, Only a More Balanced Mindset

Ulrich Schoop is the Co-Founder of The Dive, a combination of a consultancy, community and movement for social innovations. In an interview, he talks...

Why We Cannot Be Fulfilled as long as We Get Everything

Claudia Beck is a life coach, who recently started her coaching business after decades of experience as an executive in the retail and finance industries....

Work is One Thing, Compensation is Another Thing

Barry Schwartz is a professor in Psychology at Haas Business School at UC Berkeley, who previously taught at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania for 45...

The Urgent Conversation We Need to Have as a Society

When you talk with people a bit longer about what they like or dislike about their work, they will at some point say something...

Clearing the Way for the New Generation

Last summer I found a co-working space called SF17 close to Munich’s beautiful English Garden to hold one of my mental training workshops. The...

How to Create a Culture of Contribution

At Burning Man last year, when I talked about my search for visionary thoughts on the future of work, many people said I need...

Why Companies Need a Purpose and Individuals a Mantra

I started to believe that great leadership exists and it is possible to live your highest life priorities within your work when I first...

Communities and the Rise of New Forms of Intelligence

After a couple of rainy days it is surprisingly sunny as I am driving from Watertown to Cambridge in Massachusetts to meet Kathleen Kennedy,...

Why There Is No Such Thing as a Life Purpose

It is Friday afternoon. A group of people has gathered in California for a yoga retreat. Everybody shares his/her intention for that weekend. Among...