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An entire industry has emerged around employee engagement, but the statistics measuring it have remained low—and stubbornly steady. Mark C. Crowley suggests it's time to try a new approach in The Power of Employee Well-Being.
It is expensive to be a woman, and—as Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman details in her new book The Double Tax—the costs are often much higher for women of color, especially Black women. The gaps in job opportunities, salaries, housing costs, childcare access, and generational wealth are dramatic. The problem is even more personal when it comes to appearance, as race-based hair discrimination remains common in both schools and workplaces. That financial and psychological costs remain high, but solutions are available.
Rick Tucci believes that, as technology reshapes our organizations, "leaders are being handed an unprecedented opportunity: the chance to redeploy time and talent on the front lines." For a real-world example of this, Tucci turns to his experience working with Steve Preston and the U.S. Small Business Administration in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
The advice to keep our nose to the grindstone may not always result in our best, most creative, or most productive work. Creativity strategist Natalie Nixon offers a different model of productivity—one that encourages space and time to move, think, and rest—that allows individuals and organizations to flourish.
"I want to create music and experiences," writes musician and meditation teacher Born I, "for people to understand that it's okay to be exactly who you are. You are enough." His new book, Lyrical Dharma, is another experience he has created to do that work.
