No one ever wants to think about the possibility of losing a loved one in an accident. But the sad reality is that accidents happen every day, and sometimes they result in death. If you have lost a loved one in an accident in Boston that was caused by someone else’s negligence, you need to […]
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Top Reasons To Hire A Personal or Lyft Accident Lawyer
Being seriously injured in an accident is a terrifying experience. When you head out into the world, the last thing on your mind is getting hurt due to someone else’s carelessness or wrongdoing. Unfortunately, accidents often cause more than just physical harm. Numerous victims experience monetary hardships as a result of their injuries, what with […]
Companies that change the game can change the world
The world faces a host of existential crises, including climate change, natural scarcity, income inequality, and poor global health. We call these exponential crises because they are characterized by a series of feedback loops that create vicious circles. And, in turn, they aggravate one another. Poverty leads to a lack of access to healthcare, which […]
Six reasons successful leaders love questions
It has become a habit of mine to kick off my presentations by inviting people to write down a question. I ask people to follow two rules: the question must be relevant to the context—typically, leaders meeting in or across organizations to discuss leadership—and it must be important to the person asking the question to […]
When the real problem isn’t the obvious one
How do you know if you have identified the real challenge facing your business? And, once you identify that challenge, how do you know that you are solving it correctly? Answering both those questions requires not only a willingness to innovate but also the humility to change direction. This is the salutary lesson to be […]
A pose by any other name
It was a bit like those internet advertisements for “one weird trick to get rid of belly fat,” except this one weird trick came with impeccable credentials. Amy Cuddy, a social psychologist with degrees from Princeton University, claimed that holding an “expansive nonverbal display”—say, chest out, hands on hips, legs sturdily apart exactly like Wonder […]
Sports, by the numbers
An Economist Goes to the Game: How to Throw Away $580 Million and Other Surprising Insights from the Economics of Sports by Paul Oyer, Yale University Press, 2022 When Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane sat down with writer Michael Lewis and described how he had turned an underdog team into playoff regulars, the chances of the […]
Envisioning the futures of retail banking
Picture a future in which customers conduct all their financial services through digital wallets handled by nonbanks like Apple, Google, and Uber. Or imagine another potential future, in which a mere handful of mega banks dominate global markets. Or yet another, in which traditional currency fades from relevance, and transactions largely happen through cryptocurrencies and […]
Technology alone won’t solve your organizational challenges
I recently participated in an online open innovation session on the future of work hosted by Everything Omni, a UK-based group aiming to “future-proof work and the workplace for the uncertainty of today.” I was quickly in over my head. Not because of the content. That was provocative yet approachable. I found myself overwhelmed by […]
Beyond purpose statements
Imagine, for a moment, somebody sitting down 50 years from now to write a book about the history of modern capitalism. That writer would undoubtedly devote at least a few chapters to the rise of stakeholder capitalism and how the pandemic transformed the nature of work, and particularly to the degree to which corporations have […]