Imagine Encouraging Young People to Achieve the Impossible
Some people spend their lives deciding on a career, but for 20-year-old Alyssa Carson, the goal has been clear since she was three years old: Be among the first humans to explore Mars. Carson has spent most of her life preparing to go to Mars by attending space camps and advanced preparation programs, building a […]
Imagine Combining Two Products into One to Create Social Impact
Worldwide, millions of people are forced to sleep outside in the cold. That number is growing by the minute. Poverty, mental illness, unexpected loss of jobs, natural disasters, and wars are the top causes of homelessness around the world. The Sheltersuit, developed by Bas Timmer (above, right) in the Netherlands, is a wind- and waterproof […]
30 Characteristics of Future Leaders
Leadership is inherently viewed as positive and good. The reality, of course, is something quite different. There are good leaders and there are bad leaders, male and female. There are those who believe that any action by leaders is better than no action at all. This is wishful thinking and absolute nonsense. If leaders make bad decisions, those […]
How to Get Comfortable With Continuous Change
Stop building urgency around the nature of a proposed change. Instead, create the right amount of urgency around how that change can occur. By doing this, you will quickly become familiar with how change is initiated, communicated, and executed within your organization. If we wind back the clock a few decades, significant change within a […]
6 Ways to Think Like a Real Leader and Achieve Extraordinary Success
It’s in Bertrand Piccard’s DNA to go beyond the obvious and achieve the impossible. From a legendary lineage of explorers who conquered the stratosphere and the deepest troughs of our oceans, he made history by accomplishing two aeronautical firsts: around the world non-stop in a balloon, and then again in a solar plane without fuel. […]
Do I Really Need To Give Up My Personal Values And Ethics In Business?
An 18 year old woman wants to “bring humanity to business” but doesn’t know how. More than 35 years later, and despite having no role models, she still hasn’t surrendered her values. Brigitte Baumann was told that a CEO must simply look after the bottom line. That’s all. Go Beyond is born; an angel investor […]
U.S. Small Towns Take On Energy-Guzzling Bitcoin Miners
Environmentalists warn carbon emissions from power-intensive bitcoin mining could harm efforts to limit global warming. In mid-April, nearly 150 local environmentalists marched to the gates of Greenidge Generation, a bitcoin mining facility in upstate New York, in a last-ditch effort to block its expansion. Their objection: that the creation of the cryptocurrency, an energy-intensive process […]
How to Lead Loudmouthed Associates
On the first day of school when I was a young boy, my mother suggested to my new teacher that she (they were all she’s) sit me at the school desk right in front of her. “You will thank me later,” she would tell them. I enjoyed hearing myself talk over quietly listening to the […]
Qatar Airways Cargo Returns Seven Rescued Lions To Their Natural Habitat For Free
By helping the Ukraine-based NGO Warriors of Wildlife (WOW), Qatar Airways Cargo kept its promise to fly lions to their natural habitat for free. It took six months of hard work involving no less than a dozen departments and over 50 employees to ensure a successful operation. On Thursday, April 29, the Kouga and Swinburne nature reserves […]
Trust Comes On a Bicycle and Leaves On a Ferrari
PODCAST PEOPLE: A Summary from the Real Leaders Podcast “We used to have a saying when I was at Shell: Trust comes to you on a bicycle, trust leaves you on a Ferrari. It’s so difficult to build trust but it’s so easy to lose trust. And trust is earned, really. You have to earn it, […]
