How to Encourage Idea Sharing in the Workplace

How to Encourage Idea Sharing in the Workplace

How does idea sharing in the workplace benefit an organization? How can you inspire your team to get involved and share ideas? Author Simon Sinek believes everyone, no matter their role or status, deserves to find fulfillment at work. According to Sinek, discovering the core purpose that inspires your team to do the work they choose to do will promote team engagement and idea sharing. Read on to learn Sinek’s approach to encouraging team idea sharing in the workplace, including a thought-provoking exercise.

What Makes a Person Trustworthy? The 5 Rules

What Makes a Person Trustworthy? The 5 Rules

What makes a person trustworthy? How do experts define trustworthiness? Why is being trustworthy one of your most valuable assets? Stephen Covey identified five rules for what makes a person trustworthy in his book The Speed of Trust. According to Covey, by fulfilling these five rules, you can start building high-trust relationships in your personal and professional life. Keep reading to learn Stephen Covey’s five rules for what makes a person trustworthy.

Feedback Loops: The Psychology of Reinforcement

Feedback Loops: The Psychology of Reinforcement

Do you think the world is largely a positive place? How does the way you think about and interpret the world influence the way you experience it? No life experience has inherent qualities of its own—such as being good, bad, right, or wrong. You only assign these values to them because of the way you think about and interpret them. Over time, your habitual ways of thinking are reinforced through feedback loops. Keep reading to learn about the psychology of feedback loops and how they shape your reality.

Abstracted Empiricism: The Benefits and Flaws

Abstracted Empiricism: The Benefits and Flaws

Is abstracted empiricism a constructive approach to social science? What are its flaws? In The Sociological Imagination, C. Wright Mills contends that not all ways of doing social science are equal. He believes that his way (sociological imagination) is the only one that serves the main purpose of social science—preserving freedom. He offers a critique of other approaches, especially abstracted empiricism, asserting that they fail to protect a free and open society in the way sociological imagination does. Keep reading for Mills’s evaluation of abstracted empiricism.

How to Build an Effective Team: Tips for Success

How to Build an Effective Team: Tips for Success

Does your team need to be stronger and more productive? Do you need to put more people on your team? In The Making of a Manager, Julie Zhuo explains that great teams are led by even better managers. The managers have to build the team from the ground up, starting with the hiring process. Learn how to build an effective team that will make your business successful.

Female Crash-Test Dummies Can Make Women Safer

Female Crash-Test Dummies Can Make Women Safer

Why don’t car companies use female crash-test dummies? Why are women more likely to be injured in car crashes? In Invisible Women, Caroline Criado Perez says that the lack of female crash-test dummies used by car companies is affecting women’s safety. She attests that cars aren’t designed to protect women’s bodies—only men’s. Check out why female dummies should be used in regulatory car crash tests.

How to Improve Company Culture (Tribal Leadership)

How to Improve Company Culture (Tribal Leadership)

Does your organization’s culture need an upgrade? Are employees unhappy and unproductive? Some organizations are more effective than others. Tribal Leadership authors Dave Logan, Halee Fischer-Wright, and John King contend that culture makes all the difference. Their book is an in-depth exploration of how to improve company culture. To make that improvement, tribal leaders coach their people through five stages. Let’s look at Stage 1 and explore paths you can take to get to Stage 2.

Are Humans Inherently Good or Evil?

Are Humans Inherently Good or Evil?

Are humans inherently good or evil? Are we born good and corrupted by civilization? Or does civilization correct and curb our inherently evil nature? For millennia, philosophers have debated humankind’s true nature. According to author Rutger Bregman, there are two philosophers in particular who’ve shaped this debate: Thomas Hobbes and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Hobbes believed that humans are inherently selfish and cruel, whereas Rousseau maintained that we’re fundamentally decent and want to do the right thing. Let’s take a look at both sides of the debate.