This research highlights crossover theory, which demonstrates how emotional states, health conditions, and work behaviors transmit between closely related individuals. Drawing on a comprehensive meta-analysis of 183 studies, the research reveals that spouses, supervisors, and coworkers significantly influence an employee's happiness, health, and productivity. Distinct stakeholders exert varying degrees of influence on specific outcomes, with spouses most strongly affecting happiness, supervisors

What if office politics isn’t the problem? We talk about politics like it’s evidence that something has gone wrong. Bad culture. Insecure people. Dysfunctional leadership. Too many egos in one room. And somewhere, presumably, there’s an organization where the best idea simply wins, decisions are made entirely on merit, and nobody has an agenda. Good luck finding it. Because once you reach senior leadership, politics isn’t some unfortunate distraction from the job. Politics is the job. Resourc...

George Wright III is joined by Misty Howard to introduce a new series covering Hyrum Smith’s book "The 10 Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management." They explain that audience feedback prompted more content on the planner’s timeless principles, emphasizing that the methodology is about more than efficiency in an “age of time famine.” They discuss Smith’s concept of inner peace as the result of aligning daily actions with core values, using examples like the “ladder against the wrong wall”

In this episode, Kul explores why admitting “I don’t know” can be one of the most powerful things a leader can say. He examines how the pressure to appear competent and certain can stifle curiosity, silence valuable contributions and lead to poor decisions. Drawing on leadership research and real-world examples, he explains how intellectual humility, psychological safety and open questioning help teams think more effectively. Discover why great leadership isn't about having all the answers,

Every CEO thinks they're "the one." Ryan Dewey Smith built a network of 40 nonprofit CEOs who agreed to become "one of." Published for NDEAM 2026: Celebrating Value and Talent.In this episode, Ryan Dewey Smith, Founding Executive Chairman and CEO of Inperium, joins Tim Staton for a conversation on the hardest leadership transition most senior executives never make. Ryan built Inperium into a nearly $1 billion national network of 40 affiliated nonprofits, employing 8,000 people who serve 30,000

Welcome to The Owl Mortgage Podcast, hosted by Vince Gaetano and co-host Cristina Minatel. Each week, Vince and Cristina break down the latest news, market trends, lender updates, and mortgage announcements affecting Canadians. From interest rates and housing policy to insider industry insights and practical advice for homebuyers, homeowners, and investors, they make complex topics easy to understand. Whether you're buying your first home, renewing your mortgage, refinancing, or simply trying...

We'd love to hear from you so send us a message! Practical lessons on organisational change, change leadership and making transformation stick. Organisational change is rarely as straightforward as change management models suggest. Even well-intentioned transformation can create uncertainty, resistance, loss, competing priorities and unintended consequences. In this session from the Org Dev Live conference, Dr Aidan Harney, Jules Siegel-Hawley and Valerie Yeo explore the realities of leadin...

We'd love to have your feedback and ideas for future episodes of Retail Unwrapped. Just text us! Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream is a revered and sought after brand; its community culture is solidly empathetic and focused on the quality of life for the growers, makers, ingredient producers, employees, and customers. Join Haley and Zoe Switzer, Chief People Officer at Jeni’s, as they discuss how to build a culture that nurtures a workforce. As Zoe says, “Maybe more than 50 percent of our quality of ...

Sarah Barclay draws on 18 years of fundraising leadership and a background in varsity athletics to explore what high-performance sport teaches us about leading teams at work.With training in CTI executive coaching layered onto her sport background, Sarah shares how unlearning the instinct to instruct opened up a far more powerful leadership approach, one built on curiosity, powerful questions, and creating space for people to find their own answers and build lasting confidence. In this episode,

Today's guest is Adam Tornhill, founder of CodeScene, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene, and one of the very few repeat guests of the show.With Adam, we talked about how his team refactored the whole Street Fighter 3 code base, which is more than 300,000 lines of code in just a few days and spending a few thousand dollars in tokens, and measured how that led to better and cheaper AI development of new features.And then we discussed how the CodeScene team does agentic development, what the process

Readings from Successful Farming magazine.The volunteer Voices of IRIS read newspapers aloud to keep over 11,000 blind and print disabled listeners informed and connected to their communities. Learn more at IowaRadioReading.org

In this episode of Beyond Potential, Tom Emery and Tom Mason are joined by Kate Atkin, author of The Imposter Phenomenon: Why You Feel Like a Fraud and What to Do About It, to explore why "imposter syndrome" isn't actually the right term, and what's really going on when we don't believe we deserve our own success.Kate explains the difference between phenomenon and syndrome, why imposter feelings aren't about humility but a genuine belief that our achievements weren't earned, and how factors like

In this episode, we look at the real cost of bad data. We discuss wasted leads and missed chances in trade businesses. Host Josh from Resvita and Lawrence from Engine Room share why cheap leads often don't work. Lower costs don't always mean better outcomes. They explain how knowing your numbers can boost profitability. This chat helps Australian tradies improve their businesses. They can boost marketing performance and cut customer acquisition costs. It also shows how to build trust a...

Episode description Executives have more data, more frameworks, and more advice than ever, and yet their confidence in their strategies keeps falling. Andy West, Tim Koller, and Whitney Zimmerman, authors of our forthcoming book Strategy and Value: The Four Foundations That Drive Long-Term Performance, join us to discuss how winning companies leverage the four foundations that drive long-term performance and value creation Related insights Strategy and Value: The Four Foundations That Drive

SummaryLisa Jacobi, CHRO at COCC, joins host Kelsey Willock Jones on Beyond the Paycheck with a benefits story most HR leaders will recognize: a $40 a month gym reimbursement, fully funded, sitting at 18 percent adoption and quietly serving mostly younger, single, male employees. Her team stopped curating the list of acceptable purchases and moved to lifestyle spending accounts, where the expense is only booked when someone actually uses it. Adoption went to about 95 percent. She also walks

This week let us entertain you! By chatting about what happens when you take that client out to a lunch, go to a networking event, buy your team a coffee or have a Christmas party! It's annoyingly complicated and the answer is sometimes yes and sometimes no and sometimes only if you pay FBT? Sponsor Offers:  Here Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TwoDrunkAccountants Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twodrunkaccountants/ Website: https://twodrunkaccountants.com.au Email:

In this edition of Commodity Week, host Todd Gleason and market analysts Dave Chatterton and Garrett Toay break down the fallout from the USDA Grain Stocks report, trade relations with China, and harvest marketing strategies. The discussion centers on the USDA's surprise addition of roughly 173 million bushels of corn to ending stocks, shifting balance sheets ahead of the next WASDE report where the panelists anticipate yields may stay steady or drift slightly lower due to quality issues in

What separates leaders who can grow a business from those who can guide an entire organization through transformation?In this episode of Executive Connect, Melissa Aarskaug sits down with Alex Dixon, advisor at GMA Consulting and former CEO of Resorts World, to discuss the intersection of finance, operations, governance, technology, and enterprise leadership.Alex shares how his early experience in investment banking shaped the way he evaluates businesses, tells financial stories, and thinks about

"When data is not an issue anymore, the final control and the privacy will become a huge defining moment." — Jing KuangAt a Series B–D company, your most valuable client relationships live in three people's heads and a CRM nobody updates. Then someone walks into a meeting and asks a question the other person already answered last time. (Karl did exactly this the day after a trip. Humbling.)In this episode of The Human Connection Podcast, Karl sits down with Jing Kuang to talk about building business

You have an idea you keep coming back to. A book you want to write. A podcast you want to start. A business, creative project, or next chapter you can see yourself pursuing.But starting means finding out what happens when the idea leaves your head. What if it isn’t as good as you thought? What if nobody wants it? What if you don’t know exactly what you’re doing yet? Jill Pickering has spent more than 20 years making creative work as a musician, songwriter, producer, podcaster, and author, including