Stories

Leading with Empathy: Kindness Trumps Toughness
Worried you’re too “soft” a person to ever be as successful as your more intimidating peers?

Thank you. Gracias.
On the eve of the start of the New Year 2015, we want to celebrate by giving thanks to all our clients with whom we’ve worked this last year. Why are we grateful to you all? Because you’re choosing to […]

Susan Fowler Shows Us How to “Get Motivation” Right
“You can’t motivate people”
Companies spend a lot of time and money trying to engage and motivate their employees—in all the wrong ways.

It Takes a Mentor: Bringing up the next generation of excellence
Who remembers this image of eighteen-year-old Bill Clinton as a “senator” at a Boys Nation assembly in 1963 eagerly shaking the hand of President John F. Kennedy?

The Character of Genius: In Search of Nobel Laureates
Their advice to young scientists at the annual summer Lindau meetings
How it all started: Alfred Nobel’s philanthropic legacy