Three Techniques to Up Your Energy for Better Video Calls
If you’re still able to work in this COVID world, you may be doing a lot of video calls. When meetings don’t feel as warm or connected as they used to — when they feel flat, dull, and relentless — it’s easy to blame the medium. But even in the digital age, the old rule […]
The Immigrant Entrepreneur Determined to Help Travelers Feel Safe Again
Purchasing travel insurance, once a painfully slow, paper- and fax-based process, is now a seamless online purchase. But it wasn’t always so simple, that is, until a determined Silicon Valley engineer, in the U.S. on an H-1B visa, decided it was time to revolutionize the market. On June 22nd, President Trump issued a proclamation barring […]
Brands Need to Adjust to a Quarantine State of Mind
As exhaustingly ever-present as it might seem now, COVID-19 will eventually fade. Doors will open, streets will refill, and our paused lives will finally, at long last, resume. But for businesses, resuming operations won’t be as simple as flipping on the lights and leaving an “open” sign in the window. Since the start of COVID-19, […]
President Macron’s Gift to World Leaders: A Watch Made From Trash
At the G7 summit held in Biarritz, France in 2019, you may have noticed that heads of state received a watch from President Macron. One peculiar twist of this symbolic gesture was that the watch was made from plastic waste and abandoned fishing nets that pollute our oceans. Making watches from recycled fishing nets and […]
4 Ways Business Can Look Beyond the Pandemic Scramble
Organizations are now operating in a state of chaos and uncertainty, thanks to COVID-19. Planning for the threats and opportunities ahead is an unprecedented leadership challenge—and relying on trusted categories will be futile. Leaders will need to develop the ability to seek clarity across gradients of possibility—that is, the skill of full-spectrum thinking. Life during a […]
5 Ways to Think Like a Philanthropist and Become a Hero Now
Thinking about putting your philanthropy on hold till the summer or fall while you and your team regroup? The global COVID-19 pandemic is confusing. You might suddenly find yourself on lockdown, and working remotely for the first time, and figuring out how to homeschool your kids. You may be reeling from the negative financial impact […]
With Big Business Touting Ethics, How do Small Social Brands Survive?
Whether it is U.S. denim brand Levi’s campaigning against gun violence or British supermarket Iceland drawing attention to the environmental impact of palm oil production, big businesses want to show they care about people and the planet, not just profits. But this growing trend has made it harder for social enterprises – which are organisations […]
Bono’s New Venture Takes Aim at ‘Fuzzy Thinking’ In Impact Investing
Impact investment funds must stop relying on “fuzzy thinking” about how much good they do, Bono said as he announced a tie-up with U.S. private equity company TPG to measure the social and environmental change they achieve. Impact investing – which promises social and environmental benefits as well as financial returns – is growing, but […]
Let’s Not Get Back to Normal!
After decades of economic growth, advancement in technologies, unmatched prosperity, playing and praying, and having fun, a whole lot of fun, it seems as if the entire Earth is now standing still. Nothing is what it used to be. And we are caged, scared like animals in captivity. After so many days of bad news, […]
How Globalization Has Altered Your Relationship With Food
Photographer Gregg Segal approaches his work with the sensibility of a sociologist — using the medium to explore culture — our identity, memory, behavior, roles, beliefs, and values. His latest project examines food and nutrition. In an 8 x 8 aluminum hut on a construction site outside Mumbai, Anchal Sahni sits down to dinner with […]
