People often see leadership based on an “It’s all about me” mentality. Organizations reward with increasing levels of money, recognition, and power as an individual moves up the hierarchy. Self-promotion (actually, pride) and self-protection (actually, fear) dominate today’s leadership style. Many traditional leaders allow pride, fear, and indifference to undermine…

Actress and activist Natalie Portman called on an audience at Stanford University to contemplate ways of helping the world’s poor, speaking specifically about microfinancing and village banking, and her work with FINCA International — a nonprofit that equips low-income people around the world with the tools they need to succeed…

There’s Law (which is good), Order (another thumbs up) and New York City (best.city.ever). If only leadership was so … orderly. Albeit messy at times (like my beloved dirty water dogs … extra everything please!), laws exist in leadership — just asked John Maxwell or read his ’21 Irrefutable Laws…

All around the world, people are fleeing war and persecution at record levels. Some 26 million of these individuals are refugees, meaning they have had to cross an international border in their quest for safety. Only those refugees most at risk — just 1% of the total — have a…

The politicization of refugees is not new. Regardless of whether the subject be Jewish refugees during World War II or Syrian refugees 6000 miles away in 2021, at the end of the day, helping those in need should be neither red or blue, but rather being human. But ‘What can…

What do you actually think about yourself? In the world of shiny, happy, confident Insta-you, at the end of the day, when you’re alone with your thoughts, what do you say to yourself? NY Times Bestselling Author and CEO of Positive Intelligence, Inc., Shirzad Chamine, asked more than 100 CEOs…

In our “woke”, Twitter-Insta-TikTok culture, what percentage of our time, emotions and resources are being invested in style vs relieving suffering — me included? …

As the world faces its largest crisis of displaced people since World War II, a new algorithm developed by Stanford researchers could help countries resettle refugees in a way that boosts their employment success and overall integration. The group, headed by Stanford’s Immigration Policy Lab, utilized a machine learning algorithm…

The 2020 Best Picture Oscar nominations were as somber as 2020 — dramas about war, another war, more war, divorce, lots of killing, and a poor family in Seoul conning a rich family in Seoul which leads to more killing. I’m Korean and proud of a Korean drama winning the…