Brittney Griner Felt Weird being a Gay Athlete at Baylor

Posted on 21/04/2014 by sumayah

Brittney Griner spent her years at Baylor University in the capacity of a basketball legend. WNBA basketball player led the university through one victory after another. In an interview with SI...

Crowdsourcing Feature Discovery

Posted on 18/03/2014 by forbes

By Ben Lorica Data scientists were among the earliest and most enthusiastic users of crowdsourcing services. Lukas Biewald noted in a recent talk that one of the reasons he started CrowdFlower was...

Why Companies Fail To Engage Today’s Workforce: The Overwhelmed Employee

Posted on 15/03/2014 by forbes

We just completed a major study of human capital trends around the world (Deloitte Global Human Capital Trends, 2500 organizations in 90 countries) and the message is clear: companies are...

Kitty Genovese Murder Case Revisited After 50 Years

Posted on 12/03/2014 by sumayah

As far as crimes go, it was the ultimate shocker. The violent rape and subsequent murder of Kitty Genovese in 1964 changed America forever. What especially shocked the authorities was the bystander...

TED Talks Are Wildly Addictive For Three Powerful, Scientific Reasons

Posted on 25/02/2014 by forbes

Ideas are the currency of the 21st century. You can have brilliant ideas—truly revolutionary ideas—but if you cannot persuade others to act, those ideas don’t matter. Today, thanks to the world-...

6 Ways Think-friendly Questions Help You Work Smarter

Posted on 21/02/2014 by forbes

Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz said it best: “You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.” Decades of business consulting and coaching...

Mindset: It’s Really a Lot More Than a Head Game

Posted on 11/02/2014 by forbes

Legions of writers—from Dale Carnegie to Napoleon Hill to Norman Vincent Peale to Anthony Robbins—have touted the value of positive mental attitude. Scores of rah-rah speakers evangelize on the...

Study: Love for a Winning Leadership and Better Employee Engagement

Posted on 10/02/2014 by forbes

Valentine’s Day is coming up, which means that love is in the air. Unfortunately, it’s not in the air, or culture, or anywhere else at too many companies. Which is not only a shame, it’s very...

Microsoft’s CEO Nadella: Curiosity and Thirst for Learning

Posted on 04/02/2014 by forbes

In one of his first utterances as the newly appointed CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella, a 46-year-old engineering executive originally from India, said something you don’t usually hear from a person...