Yearly Archives: 2017

Culture is King in the 21st Century

Join us this Thursday at 5pm ET for the Future-Proof Workplace show! Companies can crash quickly today, as we have learned through social media. They can be up today and down tomorrow. When you scratch the surface, you find that a toxic culture is always a root cause. Typically, these are organizations with leaders who foster […]
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Bread Baking Like You Have Never Heard It Before- Nov 29

Making good bread is both an art and a science—Modernist Bread is a 2,642-page tome on the craft of baking bread as well as bread’s future.  The five volume masterpiece is the culmination of over four years of nonstop research, photography, experiments, writing, and baking.  The book  volumes cover the science, history, cultures, and personalities behind […]
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Creating a Championship Culture

Listen in this Thursday at 5pm ET for the Future-Proof Workplace show! We are replaying one of our favorite shows from 2017, when our guest was Lee MJ Elias, the award-winning author of WIN: What Every Team Needs to Know to Create a Championship Culture and Think Like a Fan: Invest in Your Fans So They Invest in You. Teamwork […]
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SPIRITUAL SOLUTIONS TO ANGER

I’ve spoken many times about the importance of all feelings, anger included. With every emotion we experience, we have the ability to learn much about ourselves. No feeling is inherently wrong. It’s how we choose to express and use them that determines their value. In my book “The Secret Side of Anger”, I address the […]
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FIVE EASY STEPS TO INNER PEACE

One of my favorite authors, the late Dr. Wayne Dyer, once stated that “There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.” This seemed rather contradictory to the common belief that a peaceful state of existence is a destination we arrive at after traversing a righteous path. Wayne challenges us to view peace as […]
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Discover Italy’s Bardolino and Valpolicella Nov 15 The Connected Table LIVE!

Italy’s Lake Garda region is a popular tourist destination as well as a hub for wine production.On November 15th, we visit with Federica Zeni, Zeni 1870. Her family has produced wines in both DOC Bardolino and DOC Valpolicella for five generations  
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Transforming Business through Leadership

Join us this Thursday at 5pm ET for the Future-Proof Workplace show! Our special guest will be Dr. Peter Fuda, a leadership expert who is obsessed with the transformation of leaders, teams and entire organizations. Over the past 15 years, his consulting firm has supported more than 50 cases of large scale business transformation, and more […]
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What is your WQ? (Workplace Intelligence)

Join us this Thursday at 5pm ET for the Future-Proof Workplace show! This week we welcome Mark Babbitt, President and Senior Partner of WorqIQ, a consultancy that helps organizations and their leaders improve the experience of work by helping them understand, then raise, their collective level of Workplace Intelligence, or “WQ.” We will discuss the […]
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ASSUME, ACCUSE, ASK

At some point in almost every person’s life, we have made false assumptions about another or blamed an innocent party for something they were not responsible for. Needless to say, both of these behaviors can lead to hurt feelings, people being offended and outraged or an angry defensive response from the targeted party. In some […]
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Wanderlust Wednesday- Exploring Rioja and Turkey with The Connected Table LIVE!- Nov 8

We’re exploring two regions of the world November 8, 2pmEST on The Connected Table LIVE! From Rioja with Love- Ana Fabiano We always like to play the  “did you know” game, when we write about people. As in, did you know so- and- so used to be an landscaper before becoming a winery owner? Or did […]
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