We've all heard the saying "It's like herding cats." As challenging as that might be, it's not much more difficult than building consensus with a global committee: everyone has a different view, and often a territorial approach to meetings. In fact, while herding cats is tough, creating a brand change...

What makes you happy at work? It's a simple question, with a very complicated answer.

Arianna Huffington wrote recently about stress on workers and the resulting decline in their productivity.

Academic studies are finding that if you can increase the happiness of your...

The recent dust-up over working from home or working at work has brought a few issues to the forefront. Primarily, that dealing with a young, mobile and educated workforce is hard. When millennials work for you, life is going to be very different: they are not their father's...

The other day at the grocery store, I heard a mother telling her children she needed them to stop trying to put cereals and cookies into the cart. They needed to understand that she knew what they needed. The kids ignored her and continued to act out.

As I...

Why is everyone so angry? Is it because they can't get their own way, or is it because people simply believe their purpose in life is to take care of themselves, and that others should do the same?

No matter what news channel you turn on, you hear about the...

Warren Buffet was on TV the other day. He was discussing a New York Times op-ed piece he wrote that suggested taxing the rich would not hurt anything. He said the world would not come to an end, nor would the rich stop investing if their tax rate...

Former President Bill Clinton, in his already-famous speech at the Democratic National Convention, said:

"We know that investments in education and infrastructure and scientific and technological research increase growth. They increase good jobs, and they create new wealth for all the rest of us."

Plant Corn, and You Get...

Mark Carney, Bank of Canada governor, recently suggested that companies have "dead money" that they should put to work, increasing innovation, productivity and competitiveness for corporations, thereby creating a stronger economy.

He's right. Corporations do have dead money, but they also have dead staff, and this is...