In a recent interview with Piers Morgan on CNN, Howard Schulz, CEO of the powerful Starbucks Corporation, shocked many in the business world when he stated,  “I don’t believe you can build a sustainable enterprise with a singular goal just on profit.  It is a shallow goal.  I don’t think you can endure.”  

Don’t let the gray hair fool you.  With a membership of 40 million plus, AARP, formerly known as the American Association of Retired Persons, is a force to be reckoned with.  

Just across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, at the exclusive Cavallo Point Resort & Spa, a select group of very bright scholars, innovators, and Fortune 500 executives are sitting down to discuss the “future of the wellbeing movement.”  

Winston Churchill once said, “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”  In his new book Flourish, (Free Press: Simon & Shuster, 2011) Martin Seligman, esteemed psychologist and one of the founders of the Positive Psychology Movement, inspires us to become optimists and to get the most out of the lives we have been given.

MIT’s Technology Review Magazine named Jesse Schell one of the world’s top 100 young innovators. Early in his career he was the Creative Director of the Disney Imagineering Virtual Reality Studio where he worked on Disney theme parks and the massively popular kids game Toontown Online. Continue Reading

Jason Fried has a radical theory of working: that the office isn't a good place to do it. At TEDxMidwest, he lays out the main problems (call them the M&Ms) and offers three suggestions to make work work. Continue Reading

Do what you love-----and the money will follow.  Many career experts believe this is more than a clever saying.  They say when you turn your passion for something into a career, it maximizes your chances for success.  

Judy Bishop the president of a top employment agency Bishop and Company in Hawaii talks about the key to job hunting success. Continue Reading