Where Communication Fails: How Power and Privilege Build Pride and Break Down Potential

“Ego”. It’s a word we shy away from, shuddering, distancing ourselves in such a way that we can pretend it doesn’t exist. But the reality is that it does. Ego can do a lot of things: it can protect, it can create and innovate, it can encourage growth and empower us to lead. It can […]
Living Your Best Life Starts with Effective Communication Habits

Communication is a fundamental human expression. Which is why it is an essential element of every interaction, and why it’s the basis of design for all systems. Like most people, I’ve struggled with it greatly, and still do. I can’t tell you the number of personal interactions that have left me going “wtf” afterward. Or […]
Four Day Work Week Gets Biggest Test in the U.K., Amidst Employees’ Calls for More Worklife Flexibility

The Run-Down: 3,300 workers are participating in a four day work week test that begins this week This test will include 70 businesses, ranging from banks to restaurants, to partake in a six-month study The study plans to investigate company revenue and employee productivity, work-life balance, and mental health This study follows a variety of smaller-scale […]
WWE’s Chief Executive’s $3 Million Hush Money Deal Gets Exposed

The Run-Down: The board of World Wrestling Entertainment is investigating a $3 million settlement chief executive, Vince Mahon, reached this year with a former employee, with whom he had an alleged affair with The former employee, who was hired in 2019 as a paralegal, is under an NDA that bars her from discussing the incident The […]
Top Four Accounting Firm Caught in Ethics Exam Cheating Scandal

The Run-Down: Ernst and Young (“EY”), a Big Four accounting firm, has agreed to pay a $100 million fine and admit wrongdoing in a record settlement after company’s employees were caught cheating on required ethics exams The Securities and Exchange Commission says this is the biggest fine to ever be imposed on an audit firm In […]
Businesses Announce Menstrual Leave, Paid Abortion Travel Across the States and Abroad

The Run-Down: In the past few weeks, more and more businesses have announced new benefits regarding menstrual leave, abortion care, and more This week, the founder of Antmyerp, an Indian-based software management company, announced they would now be offering paid 3 day menstrual leave for women at the company This comes after companies around the U.S. […]
BREAKING: Uber Files Leaked – Documents Expose Uber’s Global Misconduct 

Disruption and Corruption. How Uber Expanded its Empire. This week, news of the massive transportation provider, Uber’s, company-wide misconduct broke. In files obtained by news outlets, shocking claims of spying on government officials, dodging local laws, avoiding tax payments, attacks on the taxi industry and labor activists, executive mistreatment, and violence towards their very own employees, spilled […]
Why Does Misconduct Persist? Two Underlying Forces Shaping Unethical Practices

Do You Wonder Why Unethical Practices Persist Despite Increased Public and Regulatory Scrutiny? These 2 underlying forces shape corporate misconduct. How come, despite so much visibility and surveillance mechanisms, so many large organizations and their managers still manage to sustain unethical conduct? From the massive frauds perpetuated at Wells Fargo, Volkswagen, Theranos, to the sexual […]
Cultivating a “Just” “Safety” Culture

Cultivating a “Just” “Safety” Culture To operate effectively as organizations become more interconnected, interdependent, and interrelated, the modern leader must augment their management capacity and pay attention to devices for reducing conflict. On Conflict and Differences. An inherent element of all social relationships and institutions including businesses is human conflict. As individuals, our different personalities, values, needs, and interests, can and often creates expectations and perceptions that usually results in experiences of conflict […]
Moving Management Oversight Forward

Dear Leaders and Managers: Oversight Intelligence (OI) is Your Ally MEETING THE CHALLENGE THROUGH RISK-BASED DECISION MAKING The operating landscape has changed over the last decade. Several factors in particular have introduced change into the NAS. This includes new aerospace designs and technologies (e.g., Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS)), changes in the FAA’s surveillance and oversight […]