A recent study published in the journal, Science shows that it does. Authors Soroush Vosoughi, Deb Roy, and Sinan Aral studied 126,000 twitter chains involving
three million people. What they found was that falsehoods were 70% more likely to be retweeted than factual information. Read More...
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Resilient Organizations Increase Trust & Reduce Gossip

Five MORE Tips to Unleash Learning Potential AND Expansion
Perhaps you remember this modern-day hero: In 2009, Captain “Sully” Sullenberger made a water landing of US Airways Flight 1549 on the Hudson River off
Manhattan after the plane was disabled by striking a flock of Canada geese immediately after takeoff; all 155 people aboard survived. The survival
of all people was remarkable in aviation history. Read More...

Five Tips to Unleash Learning Potential
A resilient, engaged workforce needs to constantly be learning and growing to stay ahead of the competition. However, it’s easy to shrug off learning when
faced with limited time and budget constraints.Time to stop that old-school thinking. There are many options for learning that can meet the needs of
a team. Here are five: Read More...

A Critical Workplace Skill Is Soft—which makes it HARD!
A recently released McKinsey Global Institute paper looked at 25 core workplace skills today and in the future for the U.S., France, Germany, Italy, Spain,
and the U.K. Read More...

Guest Post: 3 Ways to Maximize Your Resilience and Be an Extraordinary Leader
Dear readers—I love it when long-time colleagues continue their personal journey toward excellence and serving clients. Cher Holton is just such
a colleague. I think you will find value not only in her article, but also in her newest book. Read More...
The Care & Feeding of Virtual Teams
The good news about technology is that teams can be spread throughout the world, offering a rich background for global enterprises. The difficult news
is that time zones and the absence of visual interaction can cause teams to stumble or even fail to start at all. Read More...

The Optics of Optimism - Part 2
Heavy clouds moved across the sky, blocking out Catalina Island that looms some 26 miles west of my California shore.I was reminded that when I first moved
to this area, I had HEARD about Catalina but for the first three months, driving up the coast to my office, I gave it no more thought. Read More...

The Optics of Optimism - Part 1
It wasn’t until I got my first pair of glasses in sixth grade that I realized signs had readable letters, leaves weren’t blurry green, and I no longer
had to sit in the front row to read the blackboard. Read More...

Guest Post: Whose Job is Corporate Culture Anyway?
Ginger Hardage and I connected years ago when I called Southwest Airlines, asking if I could visit the headquarters and observe more carefully what made
this company such a magnet for getting and keeping talent. Ginger was my contact. She recently retired as as Senior VP Corporate Culture and Communications
and now is ready to share her vast knowledge with the rest of the world. Read More...

For Happiness: Put Down The Smartphone
The other day, I drove down the street by the high school.Kids were standing by the fence, sitting on the sidewalk, or lounging on a car. No one was talking.
All eyes were glued to their smartphone.All looked so serious. It felt creepy. Dystopian. Read More...
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