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Any of These 3 Monday Morning Micro-Challenges ...

Want to have a highly productive week and accomplish all or most of what you set out to do? Then start Monday morning with any of three quick micro-challenges that will set you up to reach your goals. Or, if you want, you can do them all--which will take ten minutes or less…

Any of These 3 Monday Morning Micro-Challenges Will Make You Highly Productive All Week... BY: Minda Zetlin
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What It’s Like to Experience Sexism as a Donor ...

A few years ago, a young colleague invited me to a party to meet his boss, executive director of a global nonprofit and a former scion of Wall Street. Some cursory research beforehand revealed that we had a mutual acquaintance who served on a board with the nonprofit leader. When introduced, I brought up the connection, but he displayed no interest. Instead he talked about his volunteer work and tossed around household names like confetti. As he spoke, he scanned the room without so much as a sideways word of inquiry…

What It’s Like to Experience Sexism as a Donor By: Isa Catto
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$68 trillion is about to change hands in the US

The biggest wealth transfer in history is about to happen — and it's now expected to be more than double what many thought it was. It's estimated that 45 million U.S. households will transfer $68 trillion in wealth over the next 25 years, according to Asher Cheses, a research analyst and lead author of a new report from financial services research firm Cerulli Associates…

$68 trillion is about to change hands in the US

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Study: Women may earn more than $1 million less than men over the course of a career By Courtney Connley

Study: Women may earn more than $1 million less than men over the course of a career By Courtney Connley

In 1971, the U.S. Congress declared August 26 as Women's Equality Day, according to the National Women's History Project. The day celebrates the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920, which granted women the right to vote. Each year, the president is requested to issue a proclamation honoring this day around the country.

While much progress has been made since the amendment was passed, women are reminded every day that there is still a lot more work to be done before equality is fully reached. A new study conducted by financial services firm Merrill Lynch and…

A non-profit funded in part by Mark Zuckerberg has laid out four visions... By Matt Rosoff

A non-profit funded in part by Mark Zuckerberg has laid out four visions... By Matt Rosoff

A non-profit funded in part by Mark Zuckerberg has laid out four visions of what the Bay Area could look like in 2070, and three of them are bleak

SPUR, a non-profit devoted good government planning in the San Francisco Bay Area, has published a paper laying out four possible visions for the region in 2070, and three of them are decidedly bleak.

The organization is supported by members, and the paper lists among its benefactors both of Mark Zuckerberg's organizations -- Facebook and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative -- alongside local biotech giant Genentech (owned by Swiss pharma giant…

5 Reasons You Should Be Investing in Employee Development By Chad Halvorson

5 Reasons You Should Be Investing in Employee Development By Chad Halvorson

Every employee can benefit from a solid employee development program, whether they are salaried or hourly. Yet it's easily forgotten or let slide in the pressure of everyday business. Some days you might feel like it's hard enough to get through the day, much less manage and create a continued and future plan for employee development. But as a business owner, you can’t afford to cut employee development from your budget.

Why should you press on and try to make it happen in your business? Here are 5 reasons:

1. It helps attract and keep great employees…

Are brands hijacking social justice causes for profit? TRT-World-Roundtable

Are brands hijacking social justice causes for profit? TRT-World-Roundtable

Advertising agencies are tapping into social justice campaigns to connect with consumers – but is it wrong to make money from movements? Are brands giving causes a needed global platform – or trivializing them for profit? Joining us at the Roundtable is Alex Holder, a writer, and former advertising executive; Wendy Hein, who researches and teaches marketing at Birkbeck, University of London; Otegha Uwagba, writer and brand consultant; and Paul Mead - founder and chairman of VCCP Media. Roundtable is a discussion programme with an edge. Broadcast out of London and presented by David Foster, it's about bringing people to the table, listening to every opinion, and analyzing every...

The Charity Beauty Premium: Satisfying Donors' Want versus Should Desires By Cynthia Cryder, Simona Botti, and Yvetta Simonyan

The Charity Beauty Premium: Satisfying Donors' Want versus Should Desires By Cynthia Cryder, Simona Botti, and Yvetta Simonyan

Despite widespread conviction that neediness should be a top priority for charitable giving, this research documents a "charity beauty premium" in which donors often choose beautiful, but less needy, charity recipients instead. The authors propose that donors hold simultaneous yet in-congruent preferences of wanting to support beautiful recipients (who tend to be judged as less needy), but believing they should support needy recipients. The authors also posit that preferences for beautiful recipients are most likely to emerge when decisions are intuitive, whereas…

Google, Apple and 13 other companies that no longer require employees to have a college degree By Courtney Connley

Google, Apple and 13 other companies that no longer require employees to have a college degree By Courtney Connley

The economy continues to be a friendly place for job seekers today, and not just for the ultra-educated — economists are predicting ever-improving prospects for workers without a degree as well.

Recently, job-search site Glassdoor compiled a list of 15 top employers that have said they no longer require applicants to have a college degree. Companies like Google, Apple, IBM and EY are all in this group.

In 2017, IBM's vice president of talent Joanna Daley told CNBC Make It that about 15 percent of her company's U.S. hires don't have a four-year degree…

Farther Together: The Importance Of Allies In Diversity And Inclusion By Bernard Coleman

Farther Together: The Importance Of Allies In Diversity And Inclusion By Bernard Coleman

As the old adage goes, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” 

Have you ever heard of John Henry? He is an African-American folk hero from the 1870s. As the legend goes, "[Henry] worked as a 'steel-driving man' — a man tasked with hammering a steel drill into rock to make holes for explosives to blast the rock in constructing railroad tunnels ... John Henry's prowess as a steel-driver was measured in a one-man race against a steam-powered hammer, a race that John Henry prevailed only to tragically die in victory with hammer in hand as his heart gave out from stress."…

Learn How to Build an Organization Based on Values By Susan M. Heathfield

Learn How to Build an Organization Based on Values By Susan M. Heathfield

"Our people are our most important asset." You’ve heard these words many times if you work in an organization. Yet how many organizations act as if they really believe these words? Not many. These words are the clear expression of a value, and values are visible through the actions people take, not their talk.

Values form the foundation for everything that happens in your…

Gen Z Is Set to Outnumber Millennials Within a Year By Lee J Miller & Wei Lu

Gen Z Is Set to Outnumber Millennials Within a Year By Lee J Miller & Wei Lu

Millennials are about to be surpassed by Generation Z.

Gen Z will comprise 32 percent of the global population of 7.7 billion in 2019, nudging ahead of millennials, who will account for a 31.5 percent share, based on Bloomberg analysis of United Nations data, and using 2000/2001 as the generational split.

People born in 2001 will turn 18 next year, meaning many will enter university, be eligible to vote and, depending on their citizenship,…

Millennials born in 1980s may never recover from the Great Recession By Tami Luhby

Millennials born in 1980s may never recover from the Great Recession By Tami Luhby

Some Millennials may never get over the Great Recession.

The net worth of a typical family headed by someone born in the 1980s was 34% below what was expected, according to a new Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis study titled "A Lost Generation?"

What's worse, the typical 1980s family lost ground between 2010 and 2016, after the recession ended. These folks, who were in their late 20s and early to mid 30s in 2016…

4 Traits of Leaders That Employees Will Happily Bend Over Backward For By Marcel Schwantes

4 Traits of Leaders That Employees Will Happily Bend Over Backward For By Marcel Schwantes

Riding the higher road of exceptional leadership can be a very lonely place. So many of those supposed "leaders" fall off the wagon during the journey, letting themselves and others down.

They may be too controlling, not listen enough (or at all), operate from hubris, or end up taking the spotlight that rightfully belongs to employees -- all traits counter to what good leaders do. 

When you closely inspect the best servant leaders and the traits they put on display for everyone to see, you'll find careers advancing, employees thriving, and companies ultimately flourishing…

Virtually Alone: Real Ways to Connect Remote Teams By Katherine Dugan & Varun Bhatnagar

Virtually Alone: Real Ways to Connect Remote Teams By Katherine Dugan & Varun Bhatnagar

As two longtime business consultants, we make a point of keeping in touch with former colleagues. When we had lunch recently with one who had left consulting to join a startup, we were eager to hear how he was faring. Admittedly, we were even a little jealous of what sounded like an interesting, high-energy venture. But once we started asking questions to get a glimpse of what life was like on the startup side, we could see that after just two months in the new job, he was miserable.

And not because he didn’t like his boss or colleagues or the work that he was doing. The problem was that he…

Why this CEO makes everything she does transparent to all employees By Stephanie Vozza

Why this CEO makes everything she does transparent to all employees By Stephanie Vozza

Ever wonder what your CEO does all day? Employees at the email collaboration software provider Front can tell you where CEO and co-founder Mathilde Collin is and what’s she’s doing because her calendar is made public.

“It was shared since the beginning and never questioned whether it was a good idea or not,” says Collin. “Everything at Front—within the product and the company—is transparent by default, and everyone’s calendar is public.”…

New Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford just became the first openly gay woman to lead a Fortune 500 company — take a look at her career so far By Mark Abadi

New Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford just became the first openly gay woman to lead a Fortune 500 company — take a look at her career so far By Mark Abadi

Land O'Lakes made history on Wednesday when Beth Ford officially took over as the company's new president and CEO.

The move makes Ford the first openly gay woman to lead a Fortune 500 company, and one of just 25 women overall.

Land O'Lakes, the Minnesota-based food and agriculture…

Lacoste adopts temporary logo to help endangered species By David Blank

Lacoste adopts temporary logo to help endangered species By David Blank

(CNN) Lacoste temporarily replaced its polo shirts' crocodile logo with the images of 10 endangered species to help counter the threat of extinction.

The shirts, which are part of a limited run supporting the "Save Our Species" campaign that launched during Paris Fashion Week on March 1, have sold out.

Replacing the crocodile above the left breast of the shirt are the Gulf of California porpoise, the Burmese roofed turtle, Sumatran tiger, the Anegada ground iguana and the northern…

Fundraisers’ Pay Hikes No Match for Inflation, Report Says By Heather Joslyn

Fundraisers’ Pay Hikes No Match for Inflation, Report Says By Heather Joslyn

Seven in 10 fundraisers didn’t see their pay rise high enough in 2017 to keep pace with inflation, according to a new survey.

On average, fundraiser pay rose 11 percent in 2017, according to the latest annual report by the Association of Fundraising Professionals. But those gains were not evenly distributed. Inflation stood at 2.1 percent last year; only three in 10 fundraisers received salary increases of 4 percent or more. Twenty-one percent of fundraisers got no raises, and nearly 6 percent took pay cuts…

How Millennials Are Changing Philanthropy By Justin Wheeler

How Millennials Are Changing Philanthropy By Justin Wheeler

As a philanthropist, nonprofit board member and social entrepreneur, I often hear how important high-net-worth donors are. Yes, they are important, as any donor is important. But the real future of the giving space rests with millennials.

Millennials will be the largest demographic in the American workforce by 2020.

There has been plenty written about the influence millennials are having on the workplace. Overall, they desire work-life balance and are increasingly unsettled about the future. In the same way that…

What happened to the Tea Party? What happened to the Tea Party? By Brad Bannon

What happened to the Tea Party? What happened to the Tea Party? By Brad Bannon

Just a few years ago, the Tea Party was a dominant force in American politics, but you don't hear much about it these days. It hasn't gone away, it just morphed into something else.

Donald Trump was born out of the Tea Party. Trump's dedicated supporters are many of the same folks who made the Tea Party the dominant force in American politics in 2010.

Like Trump, the Tea Party was never overwhelmingly popular but it did… 

College Donors Are Getting Picky By Janet Lorin

College Donors Are Getting Picky By Janet Lorin

In 2015, a gift to the University of Chicago merited a rock star’s welcome. “What kind of world do you want?” sang Five for Fighting’s John Ondrasik, his voice echoing across the century-old campus theater before a crowd of 1,100. The event feted the Pearson family, whose foundation—founded by Tom Pearson, an Oklahoma coal magnate—was giving $100 million for a global center for peacemaking.

Now the Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts has…

Why Successful People Spend 10 Hours A Week On “Compound Time” By Michael Simmons

Why Successful People Spend 10 Hours A Week On “Compound Time” By Michael Simmons

One question has fascinated me my entire adult life: what causes some people to become world-class leaders, performers, and changemakers, while most others plateau?

I’ve explored the answer to this question by reading thousands of biographies, academic studies, and books across dozens of disciplines. Over time, I’ve noticed a deeper practice of top performers, one so counterintuitive that it’s often overlooked…