Are you tired of employees making unsafe decisions—even when they know better? If you’re a safety manager trying to improve workplace safety, the problem may not be a lack of rules or common sense. In this video, I break down 5 reasons employees make bad safety decisions and what you can do about them. From rushing and bad habits to distractions, shortcuts, and unclear expectations, you’ll learn how these behaviors affect OSHA compliance, workplace safety, safety training, and your overall

It feels like one of those environmental debates we settled a long time ago.Paper comes from trees, breaks down, and feels natural. Plastic comes from fossil fuels and represents pollution. So if we're trying to make the environmentally responsible choice, paper seems like the obvious answer. Except the closer you look, the less obvious it gets. Depending on the conditions, paper can require more material, water, and energy to produce than plastic. Plastic can perform better in some lifecycle

How can you quiet your inner critic, stop overthinking, and take meaningful action? On this episode of Daily Influence, Gregg-Brooke Koleno speaks with psychologist, life coach, author, and The Present Coach creator Dr. Pamela Garcy about the connection between self-influence and the influence we have on others. Dr. Pam explains how automatic thoughts shape our emotions, choices, and behaviors, often without us realizing it. She also introduces her practical NOW framework: Notice, Orient, and ask

Recorded live at the AI4 conference in Las Vegas, this conversation puts David Rice and Dr. Lilian Ajayi Ore—AI lead faculty and lecturer in strategic communication at Columbia University and co-author of The Power of the Learning Mindset—in the middle of one of the biggest questions surrounding workplace AI: Are companies gaining efficiency while quietly weakening their people’s ability to think? With the energy of a live conference comes some background noise, but the discussion cuts throug...

How does investing in people make an organization more agile and resilient?Why is building talent a better bet than buying it, especially in the age of AI?My guest on this episode is Alana Brandes, Chief People Officer at Guild.During our conversation Alana and I discuss:Why "follow your passion" is a trap, and why should follow your energy instead.Why the employee journey should run "to, through, and beyond."How treating people well on the way out builds trust, your brand and increases boomerang

Episode 352: What if the thing holding your flower shop back isn’t the economy, your customers, or your competition—but fear? In this episode, Vonda and Lori get real about fear: from childhood worries about quicksand and stuffed animals coming to life (thanks, Scooby-Doo) to the very real fears that show up when you own a business. What if I raise my prices and customers stop buying? Can I really afford to hire someone? What if I show up on social media and people judge me? What if I ma...

Send us Fan Mail The most dangerous employee survey is the one with great scores when nobody felt safe telling the truth. Chuck and John unpack a Golden State Warriors lawsuit to reveal why asking for honest feedback and then punishing honesty can quietly destroy trust, engagement, and your early warning system. What starts as a story about an NBA-wide employee satisfaction survey turns into a hard lesson for every leader and HR team: feedback is a promise, not a checkbox. Chuck and John brea...

Here’s a special gift for YOU.Visit Plooto.com/TSB and try it for FREE for two months! That’s a FREE 30-day trial, plus an extra free month for Successful Bookkeeper podcast listeners!Don’t miss out, sign up TODAY!See what the team at The Successful Bookkeeper has on right now →Debra Kilsheimer has been in the accounting profession for 45 years, and she has never been more excited about its future. In this episode, she and Michael Palmer dig into what AI actually means for bookkeepers right

HR asks for a new system, more headcount, a bigger training budget. Finance says no. The instinct is to assume the idea wasn't good enough.John Sansoucie, Founder and CEO at CogNet, spent years as a CFO inside HR service companies and PEOs before he built his own business process outsourcing company, so he has sat on both sides of that budget table. In this episode, he covers: Why HR requests get denied even when they're worth funding, and what a CFO is actually listening for before approving

You can have the best doctors in the world and still feel alone at 3 a.m. when anxiety spikes, motivation collapses, or a hard habit shows up again. That’s the gap we tackle with Dr. Ken Resnicow, one of the world’s leading behavioral scientists and a pioneer of motivational interviewing, now building therapeutic AI at Chronologics to extend care beyond the clinic. We get specific about what actually changes behavior and why health information alone usually isn’t enough. Ken breaks down “hig...

What does it take for corporate directors to remain effective when prior experience alone is no longer enough? In this episode, Doug Chia speaks with Marcel Bucsescu, Vice President of Strategic Engagement at the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD). Drawing on his extensive work with Fortune 500 boards and executive leadership, Marcel discusses the shifting demands on modern directors, from AI literacy and cybersecurity oversight to real-time strategy execution and geopolitica...

In robotic surgery, a device good enough to let the surgeon operate alone makes the resident, the future expert, optional. Matt Beane saw this pattern everywhere technology gets smart enough to make the apprentice unnecessary. Dart calls this one of the episodes he keeps returning to, for how clearly Matt names one of AI's biggest threats to how we learn. In this revisited episode, Dart and Matt explore how technology reshapes workplace learning, whether tech shapes us or we shape it, and the...

Send us Fan Mail on this, the 150th episode of for the love of chiropractic, we are going to take time to revisit the idea of success. What does it mean to be successful? What is the difference between a practice that succeeds and a practice that is full of disasters and in shamble. On this episode, we will talk about the decision to become successful and compare it to going on a diet or working out at a gym. The question is: what is it that you really want, and who are you willing ste...

No bosses. Organizational utopia, or a recipe for chaos?This week on Management Muse, Cindi Baldi and Geoffrey Tumlin weigh in on the topic using the case study of Morning Star, a California tomato processor that has never had traditional managers. It sounds like freedom. It also raises some questions: when the work needs coordinating, or someone isn’t pulling their weight, who steps in? Cindi and Geoff explore how Morning Star uses agreements between colleagues to keep work moving, and why that

What if your biggest competitor isn't the agency down the road, but your own habit of hiring? Jason Cass goes solo this episode to break down NexAgency's rollout of NexOne, why AMS platforms are becoming little more than a database, and how a lesson from Southwest Airlines reframes what real competition looks like for independent agents.Key Topics: NexAgency rolled out NexOne on September 1st, growing from 10 demo agencies to 11 paying clients Reading an unsolicited client testimonial on

I took two companies from $0 to $1 million in revenue in just 9 months. Once with Terminus in 2014 and again with GTM Partners in 2021. One was funded, one wasn't. One was an up market, one wasn't. The 8 questions I'm sharing here are the reason both worked.These 8 questions are what I ran every major decision through at both companies, and they're what I walk hundreds of CEOs through inside GTM OS today. The answers will be different for your business. The questions are the same.⏱

Leaders love to talk about resistance to change, but, as McKinsey research shows, resistance isn’t the full story. Fear of loss is a huge part of transformation, too, when roles, routines, and relationships are meaningfully redefined. On this episode of McKinsey Talks Talent, McKinsey Partner Johanne Lavoie shares her latest research on on how leaders can support their teams through times of strain with Senior Partner Brooke Weddle, Partner Bryan Hancock, and Global Editorial Director Lucia

Jan Kalfus, Head of Americas Chemical Advisory at S&P Global Energy, joins Victoria Meyer for a fast-paced exploration of how AI and data center growth are reshaping the chemical industry. Starting with Jan’s personal journey, the conversation connects industry fundamentals with today’s high stakes shifts in AI, digital infrastructure, and supply chains. They dig into why demand from data centers is spurring real, but nuanced, changes on both the commodity and specialty sides, why much

Transformation plans may begin in the boardroom, but their success is determined by whether people understand, believe in, and participate in the change.In this Chief in Tech Deep Dive session, Avery Banta (VP and Head of HR Business Partners, Change Management, and Organization Development at Globe Telecom) shares lessons from leading large-scale organizational transformations and explains what it takes to sustain commitment when change becomes a constant part of work.Rather than treating

In this episode recorded on September 17, 2026, we sit down with Samuel Sule (CEO, Renaissance Capital Africa) and Divine Ulamasi (Analyst, Renaissance Capital Africa) to dissect the investment thesis behind the Dangote Refinery IPO. We explore Nigeria's broader macroeconomic shift following fuel subsidy removals and naira liberalisation, the refinery's high Nelson Complexity Index rating and $2.40 per barrel cash operating cost target, Phase Two expansion plans, the structural gross refining margin