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Sustainable Development Report 2025: Public Consultation

April 16, 2025 (updated April 16, 2025) Published by

We are pleased to invite you to a public consultation of the data used for the upcoming Sustainable Development Report 2025, which will be published in June 2025. The Sustainable Development Report is a global assessment of countries' progress towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It is a complement to the official SDG indicators and... Read more

Finding a Happier and Less Stressful Way to Do Business by Chelsea Lamb

January 11, 2023 (updated January 16, 2023) Published by

As an entrepreneur, you have a lot of spinning plates going all at once, and if any of them falls and breaks, it can end up sending them all crashing to the floor. No wonder you’re stressed! The problem with being stressed from keeping all those plates in the air is that the more stressed... Read more

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Proof That Positive Work Cultures Are More Productive

April 20, 2022 (updated April 20, 2022) Published by

By Emma Seppälä and Kim Cameron Too many companies bet on having a cut-throat, high-pressure, take-no-prisoners culture to drive their financial success. But a large and growing body of research on positive organizational psychology demonstrates that not only is a cut-throat environment harmful to productivity over time, but that a positive environment will lead to... Read more

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15+ Statistics You Need To Know About Home Office Ergonomics

June 11, 2021 (updated June 11, 2021) Published by

In June 2020, Stanford University Economist Nicholas Bloom said that 42% of working people in the US worked from home full-time. A study by Pew Research Center concluded that while 20% of people worked from home before the Covid-19 pandemic, by December 2020, that number has risen to 71%. The Pew Research Center also reports that out of the... Read more

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How to be a courageous leader, according to the president of Microsoft U.S.

April 13, 2021 (updated April 13, 2021) Published by

Kate Johnson, Microsoft U.S. president, is a leader on diversity and inclusion.She discusses the importance of making actionable changes within businesses, harnessing empathy and hope. Johnson's actions have been described as courageous, and here she explains what courage means to herKate Johnson, president of Microsoft U.S., leads a $45 billion solutions and services 10,000-person field... Read more

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Using the Practice of Self-Kindness to Cope With Stress

March 27, 2021 (updated March 30, 2021) Published by

Using Self-Kindness to Cope with Stress  “In all the greatest spiritual traditions, at their heart is tenderness, just to be kind inside, and then everything rights itself. Fear rests. Confusion rests.”   – Pamela Wilson Most of us today are suffering from the stress that chaos and uncertainty can bring. Self-kindness, an important aspect of self-compassion, has been proven to help... Read more

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The Transformative Effects of Mindful Self-Compassion

March 27, 2021 (updated May 24, 2021) Published by

Leading experts on mindful self-compassion Drs. Kristin Neff and Christopher Germer share how self-kindness, recognition of our humanity, and mindfulness give us the strength to thrive. An explosion of research into self-compassion over the last decade has shown its benefits for well-being. Individuals who are more self-compassionate tend to have greater happiness, life satisfaction and motivation, better... Read more

Give Yourself a Break: The Power of Self-Compassion

March 27, 2021 (updated March 27, 2021) Published by

Managing Yourself When you have a setback at work, treat yourself as you would a friend: with kindness and understanding. by Serena Chen From the Magazine (September–October 2018) Summary.   When we experience a setback at work, we tend to either become defensive and blame others, or berate ourselves. Neither response is helpful. Shirking responsibility by getting defensive may... Read more

3 Important Lessons On Sustainable Well-being in Leadership

March 19, 2021 (updated March 25, 2021) Published by

Recent challenges have triggered much interest in the “epidemic” of employee burnout. Articles and podcasts highlight that 76% of employees will experience burnout at some point in time, offering leaders tips to support their team’s well-being and prevent such ends. However, as is too often the case, such studies fail to address that leaders, too, have... Read more

The Psychology of Purpose

March 17, 2021 (updated March 25, 2021) Published by

Reviewing six decades of research into the meaning, development, and benefits of purpose in life Modern scientific research on human purpose has its origins in, of all places, a Holocaust survivor’s experiences in a series of Nazi concentration camps. While a prisoner at Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and two satellite camps of Dachau, Viennese psychologist Viktor Frankl noticed that... Read more

How to Build a Culture of Generosity at Work

March 17, 2021 (updated April 8, 2021) Published by

Not long after Jim Mallozzi took charge of Prudential Real Estate and Relocation, the company hosted a convention for their many thousands of sales professionals around the world. The theme of my first keynote address,” says Jim, “was ‘change and innovation’ while tapping into the ‘positive power of the possible.’” At one point during his... Read more

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What Will Work Look Like After COVID-19?

March 17, 2021 (updated April 8, 2021) Published by

A year ago, just after Bay Area governments imposed a shelter-in-place order to check the spread of a mysterious new coronavirus, Cristina Banks worried about how she would work from home. She would miss her office at UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. She would miss interacting with colleagues and students. She would miss her... Read more

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Five Science-Backed Strategies to Build Resilience

March 17, 2021 (updated April 8, 2021) Published by

A mentor of mine recently passed away, and I was heartbroken—so I tried my best to avoid thinking about it. I didn’t even mention it to my family because I didn’t want those sad feelings to resurface. In other words, I took the very enlightened approach of pretend it didn’t happen—one that’s about as effective as... Read more

The Psychology of Purpose

March 17, 2021 (updated March 25, 2021) Published by

Reviewing six decades of research into the meaning, development, and benefits of purpose in life Modern scientific research on human purpose has its origins in, of all places, a Holocaust survivor’s experiences in a series of Nazi concentration camps. While a prisoner at Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and two satellite camps of Dachau, Viennese psychologist Viktor Frankl noticed that... Read more

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