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In her new book, The Great Remembering, June Cohen—co-creator of TED Talks and Masters of Scale—shares some of the sophisticated "wisdom systems" humans have built over thousands of years, across every culture on earth, to meet our deepest needs. Here she focuses on the human inclination to turn to epic physical challenges to cross an emotional chasm.
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Paul Osterman's book Disposable Workers is a "revealing look at the decline in formal employment in favor of hiring contractors, freelancers, temps, and marginal workers, who are excluded from traditional benefits and career ladders." In the latest addition to our ChangeThis series, Osterman surveys that landscape and identifies tools available to workers.
After spending three decades inside Fortune 500 companies, founder-led businesses, and private equity-backed organizations, Ranjan Bhattacharjee understands that most companies don't struggle because people stop caring or stop working hard. They struggle because reality becomes invisible to the people with the authority to act. He explores this conundrum in the latest addition to our ChangeThis series.
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We spend much of our lives inside environments we didn’t choose and rarely question. From the systems that care for us to the institutions that shape how we think, these become the quiet structures of our lives. We place our...
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Sustaining optimism through stress, uncertainty, and change is difficult, but as Michelle Gielan teaches us: "If we get the brain to focus on solutions and what’s working in the face of challenges, it makes us better problem-solvers."
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