A few months ago, one of my closest friends, Epha, came up to me and said, "Eveie, I met someone." Now, this was big news. Not only because EA and I had spent months joking and not joking about wanting boyfriends, but because we live in Dublin, where three things are in incredibly short supply. Sunlight, affordable housing, and eligible men.When EA told me about Mark, I smiled. I hugged her. I said all the right things.And then I walked home feeling absolutely awful. I was really jealous. Jealousy is a comp ...

In the next little while, I'm going to tell you a story of a brown envelope that was given to me and why I resisted opening it. The hesitation changed the course of my life. It's about how we respond to life what life places in our hands.But to do that, I have to go back in time. When I was 17, I was enrolled in accountancy in a junior college in Singapore. It was a safe, secure path, my parents thought.You see, growing up in the 80s in Singapore, success had a very practical shape. Financial stability is s ...

I didn't arrive in the Black Hills of South Dakota as a marketing professor, as an ethnographer, as a scholar who was deeply passionate about market creation and low resource environments such as the base of the pyramid. Nor did I arrive there as Ronica. I arrived in the Black Hills with my Lakota name Shunka Mak Pi Wolf Cloud Woman. And it is with that name I visited with Chief Blackspotted Horse who I call Izzy. And that visit with Izzy completely reframed my understanding of what leadership is. Izzy said ...

I recently stood in a boardroom in front of a group of Irish senior executives and I asked a question I've asked many times before and that was what does it mean to be Irish? Now generally a huge big lively debate takes place in the room but this time I was greeted with silence. So I probed a little bit further and I said,"Well, what norms and values and beliefs do you associate with being Irish. " Again, silence. Now, I'm good with silence, which is a good thing. So, I waited quite a while and eventually s ...

Have you ever gone a full day without speaking to another human being? I know I have. And while my phone is pinging and the relentless work emails are coming through, I know I'm not alone. But I do feel lonely. And I'm not in my own. Millions of people last night went to sleep and the last conversation they had was with somebody who doesn't breathe, doesn't feel, and doesn't need them back. And so we talk a lot about AI and automation and jobs and things like that. That's not my area. My area has always bee ...

Eu sou uma moara eh que tem a vida dividida antes de São Paulo e depois de São Paulo. Sim, vou contar para vocês. Eu nasci em Belém do Pará, que a gente chama de Mairi, né.E eu vivi dos meus um aos 5 anos em Santarém. eh no rio Tapajós, onde tem aquelas águas maravilhosas. Tive toda essa vivência ali no rio Tapajós, porque minha mãe e meu pai são de lá.Nesse momento que eu vivi lá, eu vivenciei, né, o que que é eh essa cultura tapajônica, essa cultura de lá que é muito rica. Eu comi um tambaqu assado, um pi ...

In my research, every organization eventually faces a time that reveals whether employee engagement is cultural or cosmetic. For me, that started on a cold Tuesday afternoon. I was in my office wrapping up for the day. I had just reviewed my presentation notes one last time before heading home for the day.You see, the next day I was scheduled to travel to Cleveland to speak at an HR conference. The organizers expected very strong attendance, so they asked me to speak twice, both Thursday and Friday. I was e ...

First of all, I want you guys to take a moment look around this hall. We all are here present physically. Some part of our mind is absent.Where is it. It's at the moment hooked on to a system which never sleeps, which never locks off. is the same system which is rewiring our minds in the way we think, in the way we feel and in the way we interact.Yes, that's what I'm going to speak about is the world of always being online. We are right now in a hyperconnected digital world which never lets us sleep. We're ...

If you dropped my grandparents in the woods, they'd survive for months. They'd fish, hunt, build shelter, make fire, and they just call it camping. If you drop millennials in the woods, we'd spend 10 minutes looking for LTE, 20 minutes panicking, and then we'll try to order groceries to the forest. Gen Z, they probably live stream it and try to monetize the experience. And it's not just the woods. Boomers born between 1946 and 1964, remember every phone number. Gen X 1947 U 47 to 1980. Remember most of them ...

I want you to try something. Close your eyes for just a few seconds and put your hands on your nose and your throat like this and say your name out loud. What did you notice.The vibration, the sudden movement, the moment your body joins in before the sound even leaves you. Your voice isn't just sound. It's physical. It's felt.Now turn to the person sitting next to you and say your name again, but this time don't use your voice. Only your lips moving. Did you understand each other.For most of us, speech feel ...