Designing for Generosity

Amazing and inspiring talk from Nipun Mehta, the founder of ServiceSpace (formerly Charity Focus), an incubator of projects that works at the intersection of volunteerism, technology and gift-economy. What started as an experiment with four friends in the Silicon Valley has now grown to an global ecosystem of over 350,000 members that has delivered millions…

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10 Reasons Employees Really Care About Their Jobs

Want your employees to really care? First you have to really care about them. I have been talking a lot lately about happiness with my friends and colleagues. The happiness book that I have been writing has had that  “positive side effect”, getting feedback  and ideas about the importance of the search of wellbeing, happiness…

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The power of words

Watch this touching video The Power of Words, to see how changing just a few words can make a dramatic difference in your life and in the lives of those around you. Question: Can you think of a time when words have had a major impact on you or on those around you?

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The power of vulnerability. TED talk by Brené Brown

This weekend a friend mentioned this TED Talk by Brené Brown.  It has deeply stirred me and  I want to share it with you. It touches upon the following questions: How do we learn to embrace our vulnerabilities and imperfections so that we can engage in our lives from a place of authenticity and worthiness?…

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