Southwest Airlines is offering buyouts and extended leaves of absence to airport workers to avoid what it calls “overstaffing in certain locations,” which it blames on a shortage of new planes from Boeing.The move on Monday comes as a hedg…
Wall Street firms are expected to pay heftier bonuses for this year, the first increase since a bumper year in 2021, according to a report by compensation consultancy Johnson Associates.
Payouts will probably rise after financiers benefited from se…
A conversation with experts Tomoko Yokoi and Amy Bonsall on when “fractional leadership” pays off.
Too often, people are promoted to leadership and then left alone to sink or swim. In fact, one survey found that 85% of new managers have never received formal training.
And it is an increasingly pressing issue, because leadership today is arguably…
I run a small company called Cabral Co., which works with big businesses. We have a tiny team. Despite the widely promoted American dream of “Scale up!” for businesses, we abide by an idea coined by my accountant, Keila Hill-Trawick: “Build to enough….
As adults grow and change over time, their ability to deal with the many pressures of their lives changes in important but subtle ways. Leaders with different levels of developmental maturity (i.e., different “forms of mind”) will have a greater or le…
Companies worldwide are swelling with younger employees, giving rising leaders a greater voice and potential impact. While boomers are generally retiring, with diminishing influence, a handful are enforcing traditional work policies to assert power an…
One of the most important resilience skills you can learn is self-compassion. So many of us are skilled at displaying compassion when engaging with friends and colleagues, but we don’t extend that same courtesy to ourselves.
For instance, if …
Do you like to make others happy? Probably. Extending care and kindness feels good. Too much of a good thing, though, can cross a line. Kindness can become people-pleasing when you develop a habit of prioritizing the needs of others over your own, say…
Today’s rapidly developing risk landscape demands a new, more nimble approach for insurance companies to assess and respond to risks, a function inherently in their DNA.
