How Intuitive Intelligence Can Help Us In Challenging Times
In light of the horrible events that took place in France last week, we would like to dedicate this post to the victims, the survivors and their families. The whole idea of compassion is based on a...
View ArticleDealing with Chaos and Uncertainty
Excerpted from Francis Cholle’s The Intuitive Compass, Jossey-Bass In my seminars at L’Oréal, SAP, and other companies, I often recount Edgar Allan Poe’s “A Descent into the Maelstrom,” a story that...
View ArticleThree Key Facts That Will Change the Way You Think About Creativity
Excerpted from Francis Cholle’s The Intuitive Compass, Jossey-Bass In recent years, neuroscience research has revealed three key facts that may change forever the way we think about and approach...
View ArticleThrive in Disruption at the Wisdom 2.0 Conference
“Wisdom 2.0 is a conference tackling one of the biggest challenges of today’s age. Connect through technology, but do so in a way that supports a person’s well-being, work effectiveness, and is...
View ArticlePlaying while you work. The key to success?
The following article about the work we do at The Human Company was published on the January 9, 2016 in the magazine L’Echo. “Disruption.” Such is the word that describes the powerful upheaval of the...
View ArticleThe Business Case for Gender Intelligence
Last week Francis Cholle spoke at The Girls’ Lounge (www.thegirlslounge.com) at Davos addressing The Female Quotient and why embracing feminine values is the key to success in the 21st century. He...
View ArticleWhat is Gender Intelligence in Business?
In the second in series of blog posts about Gender Intelligence we will focus changing perceptions and beliefs and behavior to create diversity and inclusion of both men and women, feminine and...
View ArticleTechniques to Build Your Gender Intelligence
Just as we prepare ourselves for an important interview or set our minds to achieve a challenging goal like running a marathon, we can take step to invite intuition into our daily experience, and thus...
View ArticleCan I trust my gut feelings?
Gut feelings about potential threats and opportunities are not always correct, and neuroscientists debate the conditions under which the feelings precede the conscious awareness of the clues...
View ArticleGet Your Team Past Inertia Once and For All
Once we start moving in a certain direction or doing something a certain way it is hard to stop or change. That is inertia. And while this is true for individuals, it is even stronger in a group...
View ArticleHow to Build the Perfect Team and Scale It
Last Sunday I saw an outstanding article published in the New York Times magazine called, “What Google Learned From Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team” written by the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter...
View ArticleEnvironments in Which Creativity Can Flourish
It is a truism that the one thing that doesn’t change in life is change; we are constantly dealing with the unknown. A decade immersed in the performing art and cultural studies gave me a new...
View ArticleIs Culture the Culprit?
The April 2016 issue of Harvard Business Review had an interesting article, “Culture is not the Culprit”, by Jay W. Lorsch and Emily McTague. They argue that these days, changing culture is seen as...
View ArticleHow to Evaluate Any Corporate Culture
For those of you who missed our post last week, we used the Intuitive Compass® to create a Corporate Culture Questionnaire that is suitable for both CEOs trying to get a clearer understanding of how...
View ArticleHow to manage for creativity
It is a truism that the one thing that doesn’t change in life is change; we are constantly dealing with the unknown. A decade immersed in the performing arts and cultural studies gave me a new...
View ArticleThe Value of Intuition in Business
We attempt to interact with one another and arrange our institutions in hierarchical pyramids because we have been taught that the world fundamentally operates according to physical laws that believe...
View ArticleWhy Play is Essential in the Workplace
Play is magical. And profound. Not only is it essential to our growth and development when we are children and a source of joy throughout our lives, but it is also a largely untapped channel for...
View ArticleYou Already Have All the Resources You Need to Innovate
Play opens us up to the possibility that we don’t need more of anything—time, money, knowledge, and so on—in order to produce more. It is a radical idea, especially in business, where we often hear...
View Article3 Tips for Creating a Workplace Environment to Enhance Creativity
Because creativity is such an important factor of success in business today, play should be part of every CEO’s mandate, and companies should be rated according to the level of playfulness in their...
View ArticleHow Instinct and Intuition Can Help You Navigate Our Uncertain Times
No, no! You’re not thinking, you’re just being logical. –Niels Bohr, Nobel Prize winner in physics To date, our collective approach to human intelligence often relies on outdated concepts. The...
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