A LEADERSHIP PLAYBOOK FOR AN UNCERTAIN WORLD This is an excerpt from Bobbie LaPorte’s new book, When the Curveballs Keep Coming: A Leadership Playbook for an Uncertain World, where she provides insight into the ripple effects of leading through uncertainty and explains how you can adopt a possibilities mindset to always find ‘the next win’ for you and your…
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A path for diverse talent to rise to the top in the legal sector We speak with Daniel Winterfeldt MBE QC (Hon), Managing Director and General Counsel for EMEA and Asia at the global investment bank Jefferies, and Founder and Chair of the InterLaw Diversity Forum. His initial goal for the InterLaw Diversity Forum in 2008…
The corona crisis has opened up new opportunities for corporate health management: there is hardly a company where health has ever been more important than it is today. With the risk of coronavirus infections in their own company, every employer must plan for when employees suddenly become ill or quarantine measures have to be taken.…
A practical Positive Leadership model built directly out of Positive Psychology By Dr. Markus Ebner ‘How manipulative is leadership?’ I have asked this question at the start of many workshops for managers in recent years. Undoubtedly, this wording is provocative—and that is also my intention. But when the thesaurus suggests the terms ‘influence’ or ‘steer’…
Mindfulness in open design-based thinking As Head of Business Transformation and Innovation in UK/Ireland at EY, Michael Von der Geest is at the forefront of the EY business transformation practice. He has over 25 years’ experience supporting clients in delivering complex multi-year technology-enabled change programmes. Leading by example, Michael practises and promotes Mindful Leadership in…
Building on a deep understanding of psychology and the needs of the corporate world, the UP’N’CHANGE team is digitalizing coaching expertise and removing existing barriers when it comes to accessing support for individuals and large workforces. Interview by Armin Forstner Gabriele and Barbara – what inspired you to think about digitalising coaching and to basically…
Medical coaching for healthy leaders Austrian-born pioneer in preventative medicine and burn-out prophylaxis specialist, Dr. Doris Eller-Berndl MD, talks to us about the importance of energy-rich mitochondria and how leaders can help themselves and their teams in times of heightened stress levels. Interview by Armin Forstner Dr. Eller-Berndl, could you talk us through the reasons…
By Sabine Seymour Before we get to the fun bits of describing how to make money with your data, I’ll tell you about my journey that led me to create a new data economy – and to write a book about it as an economist and technologist: Notes from a Social Datavist™. For the past 25 years,…
We spoke with Sarah Shouman, head of the youth unit at UNRWA in Lebanon, who spearheaded a country-wide project, Cash for Work, supported by Germany’s KfW, to help young Palestinians gain valuable work experience with local businesses and to help them in their first career steps. Before these placements started, Sarah introduced a series of Positive…
By Fintan McGovern We live in interesting times – or so the saying goes – and today this is truer than ever before. In fact the challenge that we as leaders are facing today is that as we are faced with an existential threat to how we live and consequently how we do business due…
