The Secret to Boosting Organizational Performance: Gratitude

The Secret to Boosting Organizational Performance: Gratitude

Showing gratitude to employees is the best way to boost performance, yet few executives effectively utilize this simple tool. In fact, new research reveals people are less likely to express gratitude at work than anywhere else. Why is that the case, and what can be done to address it? To find out, it’s a pleasure to have with us, Adrian Gostick, the Co-author of Leading with Gratitude: Eight Leadership Practices for Extraordinary Business Results. 

New America CEO Speaks to the Challenges Facing Us

New America CEO Speaks to the Challenges Facing Us

Philanthropy can only be as effective as the ecosystem in which it operates, whether that’s a community, the nation, or the world, and those ecosystems are under tremendous stress at the moment.

So, to help provide us some context to better understand what is happening. It’s a pleasure to have with us a person who’s a master of connecting dots that help explain where we are. She’s Anne-Marie Slaughter, author, professor, and the CEO of New America, an action tank dedicated to renewing the promise of America.

Carly Fiorina, Founder of Unlocking Potential Foundation and Author of Find Your Way: Unleash Your Power and Highest Potential, Joins Denver Frederick

Carly Fiorina, Founder of Unlocking Potential Foundation and Author of Find Your Way: Unleash Your Power and Highest Potential, Joins Denver Frederick

Social problems are best addressed when the private, governmental, and nonprofit sectors are all at the table working together. So, it stands to reason that an individual who’s been the CEO of a Fortune 50 company, run for president of the United States, and has founded and led several nonprofit organizations might have a fresh, interesting, and holistic approach to solving problems, and my next guest absolutely does. She is Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard, a Republican presidential candidate in 2016, the Founder of the Unlocking Potential Foundation, as well as the author of Find Your Way: Unleash Your Power and Highest Potential.

Jim Collins, Entrepreneurial Professor and author of Good to Great, Good to Great and the Social Sectors, and Turning the Flywheel, Joins Denver Frederick

Jim Collins, Entrepreneurial Professor and author of Good to Great, Good to Great and the Social Sectors, and Turning the Flywheel, Joins Denver Frederick

My next guest is the author or co-author of six best-selling books that have sold in total more than 10 million copies. Forbes Magazine selected him as one of “The 100 Greatest Living Business Minds.” And much to the good fortune of the social sector, he has spent considerable time researching and studying it. He is Jim Collins, an entrepreneurial professor, if you will, and the author of Good to Great, Good to Great and the Social Sectors, and his latest monograph, which is called Turning the Flywheel.