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Inspirational Streams of Emotionally Aware Leadership
Unlocking Innovation with Data, Creativity, and Automation
There are many different paths to achieving success. For some, it may be through hard work and determination, while others may find success through innovation with creativity, data, and automation. No matter what your path is, it’s important to stay up to date on the...
Engineering the Future from Astronomy to Augmented Reality
When you have a vision of a mission in mind, you can explore a range of possibilities to achieve it. You can dive deep into a sea of subjects even if it is a long journey ahead. Jason Lozo exemplifies such an innate interest in exploration. Recently caught up with...
Why We Must Learn to Lead with Love
Love is a verb. It’s an action. A conscious choice. Love is a practice, just as personal care, and meditations, or eating, and learning. As a leader when you practice love for others, you reflect a commitment to practicing love. This commitment starts with the...
How to and Why Be Genuine as a Leader
There is a significant difference between leadership and management. Leaders inspire and work in an upside-down pyramid fashion, while managers are often seeking to be on the top of the pyramid with everyone else beneath. Leaders create and move things forward,...
Design Thinking Applied to M&A Integration
Merging companies is complicated. However, if merging is done right, it might lead to competitive advantages. The reality is that many companies do it wrong, resulting in failure rates as high as 70% or more. The failure rate increases due to insufficient integration...
Design Thinking Applied to Re-Organizations
Reorganizing a company to solve complex problems, introduce innovation, improve business operations, and identify market opportunities requires design. Design Thinking can be used as a tool to transform or reorganize a company to identify innovative solutions to...
Improve Customer Success with Design Thinking
Modern customer success efforts rely on providing unique and positive experiences to customers. As a result, businesses are getting competitive at an ever-increasing rate, trying to offer real value to customers to convince them to stay and plant seeds to come back in...
Design Thinking Can Help Grow Sales
Many businesses, in recent years, have started implementing Design Thinking to achieve more productive and profitable results. Specifically, Design Thinking is the way of using various techniques and tools to come up with innovative solutions centered around solving...
Authentic Leaders Delight in the Success of Others
The cornerstone to growing as a company is teamwork. Teamwork is about getting excited for our peers’ wins and helping them win. Authentic leaders primary focus is caring for others and championing their success. Employees need to feel supported instead of being...
Authentic Leaders Humbly Serve Others
The most powerful and effective leaders are servant leaders. Servant leaders share power with others and serving the needs of others is their highest priority. These leaders are good listeners who learn from and identify with those around them. They are secure in...
Emerging Trends in Design Thinking Innovation
According to Tim Brown, Executive Chair of IDEO, “Design Thinking is a human-centered approach to innovation that draws from the designer’s toolkit to integrate the needs of people, the possibilities of technology, and the requirements for business success.” Design...
Design Thinking for Social Innovation
Social innovation is a means to develop and implement innovative and effective solutions to solve environmental or social issues. It is a new perspective that provides systematic and practical solutions that can be applied to ongoing social issues. The needs of...
Design Thinking the People-centric Modern Organization
Designed thinking can be leveraged to create better and more empathy-based organizations. Empathy, along with self-awareness are the most important cornerstones of emotional intelligence, and foundational to design thinking. Through empathy, we can design products,...
Design Thinking Human-centered Approach to Innovation
As today’s world advances, modern society brings a new set of complexities that the same thought processes of yesterday cannot solve. Long established solutions may not effectively cope with the changing environment. This is where Design Thinking steps in to create...
Society 2045’s Collectively Connected Emotional Intelligence
Developing a well-organized structure and collaborative approach to achieving goals is the key to creating a great company. Can the same apply to society? The effort to liberate people at work can bring out the enthusiasm, creativity and potential that is otherwise...
Society 2045’s Atmosphere of Collaborative Co-creation
To experience better relationships, it is crucial to create an atmosphere where collaboration and co-creation are possible. Integration among people of society can help us come together, solve problems, and create a greater level of perceptibility. This is the topic...
Society 2045’s Key to Sustainability Is Decentralization
Developing connections and interdependence is key to creating a better economic system in the business world. However, people do not have fully transparent views when purchasing anything about the ecosystem of how a product made it to the store shelves. They mostly...
Want to Be a Better Leader? Increase Empathy by Practicing Gratitude
An infant who needs attention will throw things, cry, scream, and create chaos. We see the infant as seeking care and love, not as being a troublemaker. As adults, sadly, many often continue their infant ways, except they use more manipulative, and shrewd methods to...
Society 2045’s Vision for a Human Centric Future
The world we live in is home to several species that coexist on a planet that supplies all that we need to thrive. However, the human species has not been so kind to our planet in the recent century, which begs the questions: How can we have a promising future,...
Society 2045’s Better Communities with Conscious Contracts®
To successfully build better relationships in our communities is to make them safer. Listening, understanding, making efforts to connect, and having a sense of trust are crucial aspects of community relationships and engagement. Businesses can lead by example with...
Society 2045’s Future of Work for the Betterment of Humanity
The world is transforming at its own pace. People who are thinking to bring out more changes into the system are doing so with the desire for the betterment of humankind. Sadly, often change has been coerced with force and domination tactics. Can we manifest positive...
Society 2045’s Outlook for Purposeful Relationships at Work
In the corporate world, diminishing the barriers of bureaucratic hierarchy is essential to create a more intimate work environment centered on collaboration and engagement. “Collapsing rules that restrict people is the key to changing the outlook on relationships in...
Society 2045’s Economic Framework for Better Community Engagement
Building a foundation of strong morals, values, and engagement is crucial for the development of engaged communities. We cannot simply rely on technologies to solve all our issues. It is vital to create value and mutual respect among communities in the postmodern...
Society 2045’s Radically Collaborative Organizations
In our lives, we all have some pain and challenges. These challenges and pain are mostly a result of our choices. We are free to make different choices that will change the outcome of our lives. It only requires research and study to make a difference. We can make a...
Society 2045’s Sustainable Economy
Today, every country in the world has a dream to become the supreme world power. In the process to accomplish this, they have disturbed the ecological balance of nature. People are fighting among themselves for the safety and security of peace. We all know in history...
Society 2045’s Teamwork Based Innovative Work Culture
Today, many organizations have an individualistic approach to their culture and concentrate primarily on revenues and profits. This tends to impact the way employees think about their participation at work as well. An organization focused purely on revenues and...
Society 2045’s Wealth Creation
Today we are living in a world with a major wealth gap among people. What if we collectively worked towards eliminating and reducing the wealth gap? Financially secure people can do a lot to enable this and contribute to humankind’s needs. A well-organized initiative...
Design Thinking Rooted in Empathy Enables Innovation
To have empathy means to have the ability to understand the needs of others by becoming aware of their feelings and thoughts. Design Thinking is a process for solving problems and enabling innovation by prioritizing people’s needs above all else. It relies on...
Society 2045’s Collaborative Thinking
We are in a world where social ethics are in a dangerous state, and the earth’s resource pool is getting emptied. Can we save our future? This past summer, Society 2045 had a series of interviews with change makers seeking to improve the way society works. Society...
Society 2045’s Future Is Self Governance
Today’s organizational model centered on command-and-controls is no longer working. It never worked for most people to begin with. The great resignation is a testament that people want more. They want better relationships and want to be able to make an impact at work...
Society 2045 and the Art of Human Alignment
It is not a secret that we are living during a time in human history filled with many challenges. From the recent pandemic, global political unrest, the climate crisis, to lack of equitable economic conditions in various countries, we are facing difficult times. Is it...
Society 2045 Conscious Contracts™ for Better Relationships
In the business world developing trust and building relationships is key to creating a great workplace environment. However, most humans rely on a piece of paper for building relationships. You might be saying to yourself that a relationship isn’t built on a piece of...
Society 2045 Achieving Harmony Through the Connection Practice
What has been overlooked for many years gained importance during the current pandemic: mental health. Being stuck in homes has hampered many people’s mental and emotional wellbeing. As a society we must find a way to be more supportive to the mental health needs of...
Society 2045 Creating a World that Works for All
The world we live in has innumerable species coexisting together on the same planet, that provides for all. But does today’s world really work for all? This past summer, Society 2045 had a series of interviews with change makers seeking to improve the way society...
Society 2045 Vision of the Garden World
Can you imagine a future with more collaboration and less chaos? Is it possible? This past summer, Society 2045 had a series of interviews with change makers seeking to improve the way society works. Society 2045 is a community of people from around the world seeking...
Society 2045 Future of Workplaces
This past summer, Society 2045 had a series of interviews with change makers seeking to improve the way society works. One of our guest speakers was Kimberly Wiefling, Founding Member of Silicon Valley Alliances. Society 2045 is a community of people from around the...
Why Should SMBs Have a Succession Plan
The succession planning process entails finding candidates to succeed the CEO and other top executive roles. Picking successors, and managing the transfer to minimize the impact on a company. Above all, it’s about ensuring a brighter future for the company and its...
Why Executives Need Coaches
Executives are like athletes. They are under constant pressure to perform daily. Like with athletes, coaching is the most effective approach to ensure that leaders perform at their best. Workplace coaching is a rising field with a growing corpus of research to back it...
How to Leverage KPIs to Grow Your Business
All businesses aim to create a successful product or service that will sell and meet customer expectations. This is possible when a company works diligently to validate a need in the market. However, many companies have difficulty making progress because they do not...
Why and How to Incentivize Employees Proactively
Employee incentives come in many forms, but they all serve the same purpose. Incentives help you to drive your staff to go above and beyond the call of duty. It is essential to understand what motivates people in today’s competitive environment. You may incentivize...
How Employees Can Affect Change
Employees are the core of organizations. They handle everyday tasks, schedule meetings, get work done, drive sales, fulfill orders, and keep the organization running. For the most part, in traditional companies, the majority have no say on decisions made by...
Why Offer Employees Unlimited PTO
Employees with unlimited paid time off (PTO) are not given a specific number of paid days off at the start of the year. Rather, they can take leaves when they need them as long as it does not disrupt the company’s operations. This gives the employee a lot of...
Why Help Employees with Child Care
It’s back to school and back to the office for many people. Parents are worried about child care. Employers often compete to attract great talent with benefits, and perks. Employers should not overlook huge transformations in their employees’ lives, such as the birth...
Want Your Organization to Grow? Rotate Employees’ Roles
The activity of rotating employees’ jobs in an organization is known as job rotation. These rotations are mostly lateral, which means they occur between jobs on the same level and are not considered promotions. They are also frequently temporary, with employees...
Why Encourage Excellence instead of Perfection
Are you a perfectionist? Or do you strive for excellence? I’m afraid you’re mistaken if you assume these are the same thing. Although they are connected, they are the opposites of the same coin. They are so opposed to one another that the only way to accomplish...
Why Create Employee Opportunities for Career Advancement
Leading employees to achieve personal satisfaction in their careers is the key to becoming an organization where people want to stay for the long haul. “Employees expect leaders to care about their career growth, in order to stay engaged.” People usually work for...
Why Help Employees Become Self-reliant
Companies who want to make sure that their employees keep working with them long term, must take steps to create a positive and memorable work environment. What people really want, besides competitive compensation, is a sense of autonomy, and belonging. They want...
How to Reduce Employee Attrition
Employee attrition weakens an organization. When employees leave an organization high and dry without giving leadership the time to replace them, it hurts the morale of other employees, and the brand image with customers. “Attrition impacts the efficiency and...
The Importance of Downtime on Health and Productivity
The evidence that emptying your mind is a vital part of being creative and successful is proliferating. However, many people do not take advantage of their paid vacation time, even if they have access to a week or several weeks off. Most people cancel or postpone...
The Advantages of a Four Day Workweek
Achieving work-life balance has always been an endless battle among corporate executives. On average, a full-time employee in the United States works 1,801 hours per year, or 37.5 hours per week, which is more than other OECD countries. For example, Europeans work up...
How Communication Skills Can Improve Your Relationships
Relationships are not difficult to sustain, provided there is open and honest communication between people. When each person understands how the other thinks and feels about specific topics, the relationship becomes more open and inclusive, making it simpler to...
How to Achieve What Seems Impossible
There are people who strive to achieve what other may consider impossible. This might be with reference to their personal lives or their professional lives. Nevertheless, they want to achieve something that they have never done before. Furthermore, they thrive at the...