The mechanisms of internal talent development and recognition are as diverse and varied as their demonstrable effects. What really works? And which “strategies” are a case for the storybook?
Awards, Rewards, Hogwarts

The mechanisms of internal talent development and recognition are as diverse and varied as their demonstrable effects. What really works? And which “strategies” are a case for the storybook?
Don’t Let Conflict Destroy Workplace Harmony.
Anger, misdirected, can wreak all kinds of havoc on others and ourselves. It also primes a person for misinformation. Here is how to lower the temperature.
The question of the vaccination status of colleagues receives ever greater attention and importance. How do companies deal with the new situation?
Patagonia’s founder Yvon Chouinard led his company down the road less traveled and became a model for businesses to do well while doing good.
AI and the Limits of Common Sense
2020 will go down in history as a lost cause. What can you do to prevent yourself and your organization from meeting the same fate in 2021?
Vince Ebert is a graduate physicist, science cabaret artist and bestselling author. His aim is to convey scientific connections with the laws of humour. Since 2004 he has successfully performed on German-speaking stages, most recently with his tour, "Zukunft Is the Future," and with his English show "Sexy Science." On ARD, the German public broadcasting service, he regularly hosts the show "Wissen vor acht – Werkstatt."
In my recent columns, we have seen how to nurture the creativity we all have and kindle the innovation flame with inspiration. But there is also a less fun part of the innovative and creative process: Showing up and sticking to the work.
Anja Wyden Guelpa is the founder of civicLab, a Swiss consulting firm. Beside her company she is an independent board member of corporate boards, chairwoman of several foundations and she teaches Innovation, Design Thinking and Political Communication at the Universities of Lausanne, Geneva and the University of Applied Science Geneva. In 2009 she was elected the first woman State Chancellor of the Canton of Geneva (Switzerland).
New Year’s resolutions, though well-intended, often don’t get you to where you want to go. Work with goals and habits instead.
Companies are living systems, says management expert Michele Holliday. Cultivate the right conditions for growth and the whole will be more capable than the sum of the parts.