Showing Posts from: David Harder
The Single Best Take-Away From the Best Places to Work
In 2015, Fortune Magazine’s “The 100 Best Places to Work” issue awarded many of the usual world-class employers like Google, Marriott and others. But they did something new. They studied the firms that had been on that list for over five years straight and they found only one characteristic in […]
The Shockingly Untapped Resource of Social Networking
How many people assume the world’s most innovative companies invent most of their technology in house? Far more innovation is found by individuals going out into the world and finding breakthroughs which they bring back. Thomas Edison did not invent the lightbulb. He networked and found the incandescent bulb that […]
The Shocking Truth About “Disunited” Airlines
In 2015, a sizeable group of past and current United Airlines employees signed a petition filed by change.org demanding the resignation of United Airlines CEO Jeff Smisek. It called Smisek out for cutting costs at the expense of services and taking steps that damage retirees – all actions the group […]
Courage Set Him Free
He is in his mid-forties, a passionate father of three beautiful girls and the sole breadwinner of a family he is utterly devoted to. When we met, Jackson Lynch was the chief human resource officer for a Fortune 1000 paper company in Washington. He had masterfully orchestrated and managed talent during […]
An Inspired New Year
This Year, Give the Gift of Clarity – Meaning – Purpose – Joy THE INSPIRED WORK PROGRAM Saturday & Sunday, January 7 & 8 (Los Angeles) Clarity – Meaning – Purpose – Joy Work is probably the biggest relationship that you have – right? If you are like many of […]
My Single Most Important Lesson About Success
A segment from this summer’s upcoming book, The Workplace Engagement Solution (Career Press) by David Harder: Many people don’t pursue what they really want because, at the core, they believe they will never get the help that brings their vision to life. Once we define a mission, vision […]
Will You Ever Overcome Fear?
In a culture fixated on security we have reinforced the myth that there is something fundamentally inadequate about us when we feel fear. If that is the case, we construct our lives around avoiding fear and as a result, the real and best opportunities don’t even reach our field of […]
Transform Your Social Media Output!
Inspired Social Networking Begins again on Tuesday, December 13 from 4-6 p.m. (PST) or Monday, January 9 with three additional virtual sessions. When Inspired Work dug its way out of the “great recession” we looked at the potential of social media to build engaged and tailored communities […]
Perhaps it is time to make change work for you:
In 1970, the great futurist Alvin Toffler predicted that technology would accelerate the rate of change to such dizzying levels that by the turn of the century most people would be in a perpetual state of shock trying to absorb too much change in too short a period of time. […]
New Behavior for CEOs and Human Resources
BLOW UP HR AGAIN? How to solve a dilemma with the right partner Reading Harvard Business Review and The Atlantic provides an illusion that I possess at least an additional 10 points of IQ. Last year, HRB published, “It’s Time To Blow Up HR and build something […]