Archive for May 2016
Value Creation through Integrated People Management
Value creation through integrated people management is exemplified by the integrated reporting movement that leading companies are beginning to embrace. When I headed up sustainability for Bayer’s North America operations, integrated reporting to top executives meant that both the financial data and environmental, safety, and health data were at the same level of assurance so…
Read More015 – How to Increase Value with Intangible Capital
In this episode, Mary Adams, a leading U.S. expert on intangible capital and co-author of Intangible Capital: Putting Knowledge to Work in the 21st-Century Organization, talks about the benefits that an intangible capital perspective can bring to your business. Ms. Adams shares ways that leading companies like General Electric and Southwest Airlines are leveraging intangible…
Read More014 – A Neuroscientific Approach to Improving Collaboration
In this episode, Dr. Dawna Markova, a neuroscientist and author of over a dozen books, talks about the research supporting her latest book with co-author Angie McArthur titled Collaborative Intelligence: Thinking with People Who Think Differently. Dr. Markova elaborates on some of the key concepts in this latest book and shares practical approaches and tips…
Read MoreHow the Brain Makes the Simple Complicated
This blog post on how the brain makes the simple complicated was inspired by my podcast interview with neuroscientist Dr. Dawna Markova (see episode 14 at http://scienceofsuccess.libsyn.com/podcast). In the interview, Dr. Markova commented that we now have evidence to support a difference between the way a man’s brain is structured and the way a woman’s…
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