Posts tagged Great Resignation
What "And Just Like That," the Truckers' Revolt, and the Great Resignation Can Teach Leaders
What "And Just Like That," the Truckers' Revolt, and the Great Resignation Can Teach Leaders

Issue 191 — February 21, 2022

If you were eagerly awaiting the “Sex and the City” reboot, “And Just Like That,” perhaps you were one of many who concluded that you can’t go home again and expect it to be a satisfying visit.

I loved the iconic television series back in the day. Yet I can see that trying to update it while maintaining the elements that made it so much fun in its first go-round was an impossible task. Because its current iteration takes place in a culture chastened by a pandemic and awakened to deep seated racial injustice that makes the whiteness of the original four female friends, especially in one of the world’s most diverse cities, seem so out of place.

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The SumGloria FeldtGreat Resignation, Covid-19, Leadership Power ToolsComment
Reading The Future: 5 Trends To Define Work in 2022 and Beyond
Reading The Future: 5 Trends To Define Work in 2022 and Beyond

The coronavirus pandemic has altered every aspect of life, and the workplace is no exception.

In 2020, 2.3 million women left the U.S. workforce—either through job loss or being forced to quit in order to care for their children—leading to the lowest levels of women in the labor force since the 1980s, prompting Vice President Kamala Harris to declare it “a national emergency.”

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Career success, Changing the Workplace, Women Career Success, Women Career ChoicesPamela CohenGreat Resignation, Workplace Culture, Covid-19, childcareComment
Find Meaning in Your Work & Life: Host, Author, Founder on Crafting Purpose
Find Meaning in Your Work & Life: Host, Author, Founder on Crafting Purpose

“I am driven by justice,” says Sonali Kolhatkar, author, radio host, nonprofit organization co-director, artist, musician and mother. “There’s a time and a place for rolling up one’s sleeve and getting the work done,” says the Los Angeles-based host and executive producer of the nationally syndicated radio and TV program, “Rising Up With Sonali” which airs on KPFK and KPFA and also as a TV show on Free Speech TV.

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Career choices, Career success, Ambition / Intention, Changing the WorkplaceMichele Weldoninspirational women, Great Resignation, Women's Rights, career pathComment
How to Solve the “Great Resignation”
How to Solve the “Great Resignation”

Issue 184 — November 15, 2021

The Microsoft Work Trend Index says over 40% of the global workforce is considering leaving their current employer, and 46% plan to make a significant career pivot.

This and other recent studies have pundits and business leaders wringing their hands about the difficulty of filling jobs in the wake of the pandemic’s massive economic disruption.

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The SumGloria FeldtWorkplace Culture, Work/Life Balance, Great Resignation, burnoutComment