How The Maker Movement Is Using EdTech Toys To Inspire The Next Generation Of Innovators Forbes, Amy Blankson July 9, 2018 For all that we hear about technology causing greater disconnection in society today, a growing movement of “makers” is offering a different twist on this narrative, instead using technology to unite people around making the…
A New Vision For The Future: An IoT Solution To Assist Blind People With Sighted Support Forbes, Amy Blankson May 31, 2018 Imagine waking up one morning to find yourself blind after a lifetime of seeing. This scenario became the reality of 35-year-old Eric Burton, an active and ambitious individual who was in the throes…
Honeymoons, Babymoons and Jobbymoons? NY Times, Sarah Firshein June 8, 2018 Last September, a week after leaving her job, Hirumi Nanayakkara did what any high-achieving and organized unemployed person would do: She woke up, ate breakfast and wrote a checklist. Instead of tasks like “update LinkedIn” or “email recruiters,” though, her to-dos included “eat noodles,” “get…
Talent, Obama and Interconnected Success ATD, Shawn Achor May 30, 2018 Have you scanned the business magazine headlines lately? The scarcity of top talent may be the biggest issue on the minds of executives today in the quest to turn individual potential into organizational success. The data explains why. For instance, according to research from…
The Power of Others Live Happy, Shawn Achor May 25, 2018 What is big potential? Author and happiness expert Shawn Achor explains in this excerpt from his latest book. When George Lucas originally wrote the script to the billion-dollar Star Warsfranchise, the most iconic line in movie history—“May the Force be with you”—was not in it. Instead,…
The Secret Reason Why Venture Capital Investments Often Fail Forbes, Amy Blankson May 8, 2018 Failure is not an option. This is the mantra that many entrepreneurs cling to as they fight their way through the bowels of startup hell. And yet, 90% of entrepreneurs wind up doing just that: failing. Sobering statistics like this…
5 ways to make your home more peaceful during National Stress Awareness Month CNBC, Zameena Mejia March 31, 2018 For Americans working hard to perform well at their jobs, the cost of success may come in the form of poor health, stress and burnout, an issue many can tackle during National Stress Awareness month in…
A New Approach for Making Work More Human Forbes, Amy Blankson April 4, 2018 Have you ever caught yourself saying, “If I can just finish this project, then I’ll be human again”? All too often, we let our work interfere with our humanity, mistakenly assuming that if we can simply hit the pause button on…
How Kaiser Permanente turned Receptionists into Life-saving Heroes of the Hospital LinkedIn, Shawn Achor March 16, 2018 In December 2016, I was driven out in the middle of nowhere in Northern California on a cold, wet morning. Bewildered as to why we were venturing so far out from the city, I checked Google Maps more…
America’s Loneliest Workers, According to Research Harvard Business Review, Shawn Achor, Gabriella Rosen Kellerman, Andrew Reece, and Alexi Robichaux March 19, 2018 A hundred fifty years ago, poet Emily Dickinson described loneliness as “the horror not to be surveyed, but skirted in the dark.” Had she been running a modern company, she might have felt differently. Loneliness…
