There are hundreds of Insights to explore that we hope raise people’s consciousness and elevate the conversation by exploring today’s world through the lens of The HOW philosophy.
NYT columnist Tom Friedman joins the 'Meet the Press' roundtable to discuss President Trump's latest shocking behavior: accusing President Obama of spying on him.
The rise of AI will have a huge impact on your career. Will creativity keep you robot-proof? The answer may surprise you
In the face of rampant technology and automation (including warnings about jobs being lost to robots), Seidman points out that we must cultivate trust, truth, values, passion, and other human-related qualities. He notes that numerous companies tout the word human in their slogans. In many cases, these companies do exemplify human-centered values. However, “though these efforts are likely earnest attempts to embody human values, companies get into trouble when they don't fully and completely instill these values in their organizations.” Citing the example of Nelson Mandela, Seidman writes: “When you demonstrate moral authority, people follow you not because they have to, but because they want to.”
Dov was recently asked by Fortune Magazine to contribute his picks for its 2017 World’s Greatest Leaders list. While he offered many suggestions, Fortune rightfully featured one of his strongest recommendations: the National Co-Chairs of the Women’s March—Tamika Mallory, Linda Sarsour, Bob Bland, and Carmen Perez. As Dov shared with the magazine, the march stands…
Technology isn’t just changing our world. It’s reshaping it faster than individuals and institutions are...
Admiral James Stavridis, former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and current Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, recommended President Trump five books in the earnest spirit that “reading can make people better leaders.” Each offers insights into the human condition and metaphors for navigating the vicissitudes of life, and when taken together,…
As we pause to celebrate International Women’s Day, UN Women is undertaking an effort to elevate Women in the Changing World of Work. I couldn’t agree more with the day’s ethos of equality, but the reason may surprise you. It’s not just that gender equality is morally right, but that gender equality is a crucial…
A new president will be inaugurated this week. In the aftermath of a divisive election season, how can the United States be reunited?
The one thing machines will never have: “a heart.”
Are the world views, frameworks, and tools that leaders use to chart their course sufficient to compete today and tomorrow? We believe the answer is “No.” Our conclusion is supported by the results from one of the most ambitious, long-term research projects in the fields of organizational effectiveness, behavior, and leadership. The HOW Report suggest a clear roadmap for how organizations can simultaneously build resilience and deliver growth in today’s global economy.
Billions of people in the world are shut out. They have no membership in the financial institutions of life that allow those in richer nations to save, invest, borrow, build, and trade freely. Tens of millions of people, a huge share of them children, have been left stateless by war and poverty; many more live lives of subsistence in remote or rural regions of the world.
Every single day, business leaders and the people they work with are constantly reminded that the world around them is moving faster than they are currently able to respond and in ways that they struggle to predict, comprehend, let alone control. The world around us is not simply speeding up, it is being fashioned into something altogether new; the amount, level, and magnitude of change has accelerated to the point that we have gone from a difference of degree to a difference of kind.
I recently shared a meal with Dov Seidman, the CEO of LRN, which advises companies on how to build ethical cultures. He reminded me that the philosopher David Hume said that “the moral imagination diminishes with distance.”
I began election night writing a column that started with words from an immigrant, my friend Lesley Goldwasser, who came to America from Zimbabwe in the 1980s. Surveying our political scene a few years ago, Lesley remarked to me: “You Americans kick around your country like it’s a football. But it’s not a football. It’s a Fabergé egg. You can break it.”
Businesses of all kinds are mired in a crisis of trust. Whether it’s the exposure of embarrassing corporate details stemming from a hack initiated in Asia; the revelation that a company has systematically misled its customers, subverted regulators, or made unreliable claims to patients; the release of sensitive financial documents through WikiLeaks or the Panama…
The financial crisis may have begun with a lion’s roar, but it seems to have concluded with something akin to a lamb’s bleat. In late August, the SEC announced a settlement with former Fannie Mae CEO and President Daniel Mudd, who was accused of misleading investors about the organization’s exposure to risky mortgages, marking the conclusion of one of the last legal battles…
College of Business shares unique partnership with Dov Seidman - its Thought Leader of the Year - putting HOW at the center of innovative new leadership curriculum
People see that many of the companies where they have put their time, money, and faith are not actually working for them. Many employees and customers have adopted mistrust as a way of life, assuming that every big mainstream business will sooner or later fail to live up to their expectations.
As long as I have more dreams in my head than achievements, I am young.”.
The world is not just rapidly changing, it is being dramatically reshaped. It is being reshaped faster than individual humans and the institutions are yet able to respond. Recent technological advances and disruptions have generated a world that operates so differently that we struggle to comprehend its meaning and adapt to the circumstances it presents to us. This new world poses profound challenges for organizations of all kinds as they try to cultivate resilience and simultaneously determine a source of growth.
After nearly 50 years in business, for-profit college ITT Technical Institute announced last Tuesday that it would be shutting down its more than 130 campuses immediately. The move leaves tens of thousands of students without a school and some 8,000 ITT employees without a job. ITT made the decision after the U.S. Department of Education said that…
We expect a lot from our higher education system: It should turn young people into young adults. It should promote a diverse, open-minded, and informed citizenry. And it should train our workforce to meet the needs of the future economy. Oh, and it should do all of this without burdening students with a mountain of debt to pay off…
Anonymity is dead. So is privacy. Given the amount of information that’s available via social media and the immense capabilities of current mass surveillance technology, gaining access to someone else’s life has never been easier, as people’s job history, birth records, and even credit card numbers are increasingly just a Google search away. And yet, amid all of this transparency, there remains an invisible,…
Editor’s Note: At How Is The Answer, we value and embrace ethical thinking, using the writings of moral philosophers—from Heraclitus and Aristotle, to Mohandas Gandhi and Elie Wiesel—as a guide to reconsider how we think about the working world. In this ongoing series, we offer practical leadership lessons from history’s most important thinkers. Today, we focus on David Hume. David…
“The vast majority of business leaders are looking for innovation in all the wrong places. In the 20th century, a CEO could command his employees to, ‘produce 10 times as many widgets as you did last month,’ in the same way that a general might have told a soldier to, ‘Take that hill.’ You could…
The race to fill our roads with driverless cars has hit the home stretch. But as this new technology gets closer to the finish line, we need to pump the brakes. Otherwise, we run the risk of careening into an ethical brick wall. How should we program a car to make the same split-second, life-and-death decisions human drivers make…
The working world offers plenty of opportunities for fear and trepidation. But few experiences in that world inspire more anxiety than the job interview. And for good reason. Candidates offer themselves up for judgment, most often by a person or group of people they are meeting for the first time. Today’s job interview process is perhaps more arduous…
As the Summer Olympics in Rio reaches its midpoint, we have already witnessed several competitive milestones. From Michael Phelps winning a record-setting 26 medals, to Serena Williams’ stunning defeat, to the USA Men’s Basketball Team decision to stay on a yacht instead of the Olympic Village due to concerns related to Zika, Rio 2016 has had its fair share of intrigue. But…
The world has seen many failed alliances, from the League of Nations to the Warsaw Pact. We should all hope that NATO does not become one of them.
1. Top Performing Companies Will Focus On Connecting Customers
In modern business, perhaps the most sacred management adage is that what you measure is what you get. Therefore, it follows, you must manage what you measure. At the same time, Albert Einstein cautioned that, “Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted.” All of these sayings contain both truth and wisdom that apply to this day, but as we forge ahead in a new century, we have yet to come to grips with what is, perhaps, an even deeper truth.
Dov Seidman talks about the moral imperative of modern leadership.
Machines are starting to out-think us.
Everyone knows that a workplace in which people feel appreciated and valued, with more autonomy, is a more pleasant place to work than one in which they don’t. What has been less certain is that workplaces with high trust and a strong culture actually do better as businesses.
Everyone knows that a workplace in which people feel appreciated and valued, with more autonomy, is a more pleasant place to work than one in which they don’t. What has been less certain is that workplaces with high trust and a strong culture actually do better as businesses.
The vast majority of business leaders are looking for innovation in all the wrong places. In the 20th century, a CEO could command his employees to, ‘produce 10 times as many widgets as you did last month,’ in the same way that a general might have told a soldier to, ‘Take that hill.’ You could measure such progress easily.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, boundaries don’t restrict team members; they empower them.
Unless you’ve been cryogenically frozen for the last 16 years, you’ve probably noticed how radically our world has been reshaped by ever-expanding technology. Perhaps no part of our world, however, has embraced this shift as fully as business.
A few weeks ago Hillary Clinton said that we should “Make America Whole.” She may have said it as an aside, just as a contrast to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again,” but it actually encapsulates an ethos of leadership both deeply rooted in the American political tradition and central to the future of both our country and the corporate world.