Tracy Brower It can be tough out there for leaders. It’s challenging to drive results, ensure you’re supporting employees’ well-being, and maintain your own motivation as well. So how can you be a good leader, and what are the strategies that really work? A helpful concept is spacious leadership—a management approach in which you create space for others to participate, make choices, and be their best. With spacious leadership, you also ensure space for yourself to enhance your own effectiveness and satisfaction on the job. THE NEED FOR IMPROVED LEADERSHIP In spite of leaders who work hard to do their…

The last memory Han Tae-soon has of her daughter as a child is in May 1975, at their home in Seoul. "I was going to the market and asked Kyung-ha, 'Aren't you coming?' But she told me, 'No, I'm going to play with my friends'," recalled Ms Han. "When I came back, she was gone." Ms Han would not see her daughter again for more than four decades. When they reunited, Kyung-ha was almost unrecognisable as a middle-aged American woman named Laurie Bender. Kyung-ha had been kidnapped near her home, brought to an orphanage, then sent illegally to the US…

There’s not a single problem in my life that couldn’t be solved or at least ameliorated by a large influx of cash. But the point of the old saying that money can’t buy happiness is that the excitement that comes with buying expensive gadgets and tchotchkes rarely lasts. So maybe I’ve had the means to make myself happier all along. “Research shows that strategic spending absolutely pumps up your happiness levels, but not in the way you may think,” says Jessica Weiss, a happiness researcher and author of the upcoming book, “Happiness Works: The Science of Thriving at Work.” The…

Julian Hayes II Life offers a series of uncomfortable truths, often rooted not in surface-level perception but in our deeper human wiring. One of those truths is that appearance still matters. Whether we're talking about economic, social, or political advantage, there's long been an undercurrent of belief in what's known as "pretty privilege" or beauty bias. In 2025, discussing appearance and leadership in the same breath may seem outdated or offensive. We live in a time of heightened sensitivity, swift backlash, and disagreement often met with protest or cancellation. But here’s the truth: how you show up still matters, and…