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Address the Loneliness Problem with Millennials

Yes. Businesses need to address the loneliness problem with Millennials. A new article by Korn Ferry points out an astonishing 75% of Millennials and Gen Z workers feel lonely and isolated at work. But the flip side of this problem is an opportunity for businesses to adjust their HR/Talent Experience (TEx) strategy to provide an atmosphere of […]

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Lego and The Purpose of Business and Work

“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” ― Albert Einstein Around the turn of the century, Lego was in trouble. They had lost their way. Revenue and earnings looked like this: Through a series of events which reconnected them with their core purpose of creating value for their […]

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From Streetsweepers to Google

(Excerpted from the Q4 2015 Update) “If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who […]

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The Basic Need for Purpose in Work

The story is told1 that in 1944 Allied forces bombed and destroyed a prison camp factory in Hungary that was distilling human waste into alcohol to help fuel Hitler’s war effort. For the prisoners, mild relief turned to disgust at the thought of rebuilding the camp when the guards forced them to carry the rubble to […]