As I started reading Steven Pinker’s new bestseller, Enlightenment Now: The Case For Reason, Science, Humanism And Progress, I must admit I was curious to learn why Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, called it the greatest book he’s ever read. And after making it through…

If American companies were given a report card today for their progress in improving employee engagement over the past four years, most would receive a failing grade. Surely, many leaders will scowl at the notion that they could be seen as failing at a time when…

As research for an article I later wrote for Fast Company Magazine, I traveled to Google’s Mountain View, California campus, and spent the day meeting with several of their talent management executives. Within just my first hour at Google, I saw firsthand all the…

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”  – Schopenhauer It’s been nearly three years since Gallup announced its stunning finding that engagement in the American workplace had fallen to crisis levels. In what became the…