Love your job? Yes. Love going to work? Yes. Love the people that we work with? Next question please. This scenario is very common to most of us. We love our job, we love going to work but when it comes to the people that we work with, well, not so much. So what do [...]

I’ve heard it discussed whether or not psychologists, sociologists, or philosophers are of any value in the workplace? The fact that people are having these discussions surprises me, because while these may be soft sciences or social sciences, they still yield results which are valuable to society. While I will agree that philosophy on its [...]

Whether you are aware of this or not, your values lie at the core of your personality and the culture of your organization. Based on your value system, you decide what is important, which people to trust, what goals are worth pursuing, how we adapt to change, and what moral or ethical choices to make. [...]

For many people, work is now the emotional and spiritual center of their life. Work has now become an end in itself – a way to escape from family, the inner life and the world. Work has become the destination for compulsive workers and everything is done to ensure that nothing can derail the process [...]

Today, we hear or read a lot about global managers, global operations, global marketing and global competition. It seems that everything about business is going global. How about the work values of people? Can work values be also an edge in global competition? Work values determine the kind of work that we do as well [...]