Jen Patterson, owner of Patterson Consulting Group, is known for her ability to inspire leaders to take a people-first leadership approach. Training and development play a critical role in every ...

Dr. Akin Akinpelu is the CEO of Akin Akinpelu Learning & Development Company. He can be reached via [email protected]. Businesses are always looking for ways to obtain an advantage in today's ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Travis Jones “I think I ...

Every group of people has a culture, a way of understanding and expressing the world, their group, and themselves. Organizations are no exception. Research shows that the leadership of an organization ...

As today’s marketplace becomes increasingly complex and competitive, businesses are continually seeking strategies to maintain a competitive edge. One such strategy is the adoption of knowledge ...

People come together and join forces for a reason. To achieve the purpose effectively and efficiently, they create an organization. The sum total of those individuals' shared beliefs, norms, attitudes ...

This cookie exercise, first shown to me by leadership consultant Margaret Wheatley at a workshop, is an excellent (and delectable) demonstration of the emergent properties of a system: The whole has ...

As so many of my fellow nonprofit leaders know, people are essential to the work we do. Those of us who choose careers in the social sector are driven by our passion and commitment to advance positive ...

The chief job responsibilities of most safety and health practitioners—regardless of career maturity—is most likely compliance, building management systems, training and implementing programs that ...

Are you resilient? It’s not an idle question. If there’s one word that I’ve heard at every supply chain event I’ve attended this year, its resilience. It is, of course, in response to the last few ...