Curiosity is a powerful driver of human behavior, necessary for survival from an evolutionary point of view, and considered to be one of the core motivational systems baked into the brain. According to work by neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp (Davis & Montag, 2019), the “SEEKING” system, alongside CARE, PLAY, LUST, FEAR, SADNESS and ANGER, is a primary emotion, critical for meeting basic needs (e.g. looking for sources of food and shelter) as well as for more sophisticated activities in the social and personal world (e.g. making new connections, being open to novel ideas, enabling personal growth).
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Today, women are underrepresented at every level of business leadership. As CEO of Forté, my work focuses on changing that. Most of our programs are aimed at women — we encourage them to explore business careers, pursue MBAs, and aim for the C-suite — but we don’t stop there. We’ve been working with male ally programs on MBA campuses and in corporate settings since well before 2016, although I’d be lying if I didn’t say that #MeToo raised awareness and interest in these efforts.
When I was growing up in the '70s, empathy was all the rage. The term was coined in 1908; then, social scientists and psychologists started more aggressively pushing the concept into the culture after World War II, basically out of fear. The idea was that we were all going to kill each other with nuclear weapons — or learn to see the world through each other's eyes. In my elementary school in the 1970s, which was not progressive or mushy in any way, we wrote letters to pretend Russian pen pals to teach us to open our hearts to our enemies.
Unconscious bias holds people back in the workplace. It makes teams less effective and negatively impacts the day-to-day experience, productivity, and opportunities of those impacted.
With so much advice being thrown at young women, it’s hard to know what to follow and what to ignore. Organizational psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic and CEO of IfWeRanTheWord Cindy Gallop provide a list of popular suggestions that they believe are best neglected
There’s a difference between a manager and a leader. A manager’s responsibilities might include task delegation and approving timecards, but a leader focuses on the growth and well-being of your team members. The best managers know how to do both and can strategically incorporate the strengths of each employee to build a successful organization. Below, you’ll find what you need to do to be a good leader and how best to manage the most common types of employees.
Founders must become more comfortable in opening their offices and conference rooms for these kind of conversations – the conversations that will lead to revelations, new business strategies and a more open, creative team.
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Black people globally were "shook" when we saw George Floyd murdered by the police. We weren’t unnerved because this was the first unarmed Black person to be killed, we’ve known of many over the years. Our collective mental health was worsened by the nine-minute video of this man begging for his life and dying on camera.
In 2021, NABTU commissioned ICERES to conduct a study of female and minority participation in the U.S. construction industry, with particular focus on historical trends in participation, successful initiatives to increase female and minority participation, and opportunities for future growth.
A HOW-TO MANUAL FOR CONSTRUCTION OWNERS, DEVELOPERS, MANAGERS, CONTRACTORS, SUBCONTRACTORS, BUILDING TRADE UNIONS, TRAINING AND APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS AND COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS
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