7 Ways to Ignite Employee Engagement and Boost Your Bottom Line
By Angela Kambouris, Entrepreneur Covid-19 has changed the way we live and work, bringing unprecedented levels of panic and confusion to our communities and professional lives. When psychological fatigue rises to the forefront of work environments, tokens of appreciation can play a critical role in jump-starting employee motivation. Positive reinforcement can create a feeling of […]
CSUN, CSUF, Cal Poly Pomona Each Receive $40M Donations from Billionaire MacKenzie Scott
By FOX 11 Los Angeles LOS ANGELES – A host of SoCal charities, arts institutions and universities were among the financial beneficiaries of MacKenzie Scott’s latest round of philanthropic donations, which this time totaled $2.739 billion and went to 286 equity-oriented organizations. The ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has pledged to give away the […]
Harvard Business Review: Amplifying Your Colleagues’ Voices Benefits Everyone
By Kristin Bain, Tamar A. Kreps, Nathan L. Meikle, and Elizabeth R. Tenney, Harvard Business Review Most of us have had the frustrating experience of being in a group that overlooked certain people’s ideas or didn’t give credit to the right person. In a recent study documenting this phenomenon, researchers sat in on 78 […]
Guy Fieri Awards Grants and Scholarships to Southern California Restaurants and Students
By Fielding Buck, OC Register Celebrity chef Guy Fieri announced grants to up-and-coming restaurateurs last week during an online award show. “Guy’s Restaurant Reboot Presented by LendingTree” streamed via social media Saturday from a set in Napa Valley. The program included several celebrities, including Shaquille O’Neal and Rob Gronkowski as well as chefs such as […]
The Wall Street Journal: Mental Health Moves Downtown
By Laura Cooper, The Wall Street Journal The Future of Everything covers the innovation and technology transforming the way we live, work and play, with monthly issues on health, money, artificial intelligence and more. This month is Cities & Real Estate, online starting June 4 and in the paper on June 11. A pinkish building […]
Leaders Who Coach Improve Employee Well-Being And Build Strong Relationships
By Tony Gambill, Forbes One of the primary skills leaders need to develop is to “stop telling” and focus on “leading through coaching”. This strategic mindset shift for leaders comes from an understanding and realization that success in their role is not defined by being the team’s best problem-solver. Success as a leader is all […]
KTGY & Trumark Homes Partner to Build “Goodness Village” for Homeless Residents
By Jeff Arnold, Patch A new housing community aimed at supporting local residents who struggle with homelessness opened last week in Livermore after a local pastor sought to establish a local mission project with which his congregation at CrossWinds Church could help their neighbors. Goodness Village is a 28-unit community that will provide permanent and […]
The Ultimate Map of California Destinations for the Comeback Summer of 2021
By Christopher Reynolds, LA Times Exclusive This is the California we’ve been pining for — 40 summer destinations that call to us loudly in good times and bad. To build this list, I thought about the places I was most eager to see, hear, feel, smell and taste again after decades of traveling the state […]
Harvard Business Review Podcast: How Leaders Can Encourage Imagination
Martin Reeves, managing director and senior partner at Boston Consulting Group’s Henderson Institute, has looked at how companies reinvent themselves to achieve success. And he has found that an essential ingredient in that process is imagination. It’s something we cultivate in children but rarely practice deliberately in the business world. He explains how to encourage […]
Summer 2021: In-Person Fairs and Festivals in Southern California through September
By OC Register After more than a year of large-scale fairs, festivals and events being a no-go because of the coronavirus pandemic, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel, and it’s actually the sun, in case you’ve forgotten what it looks like. There are things to go and do this summer all over Southern […]