Posts by Karen Jones

Companies should trust people to work from home more. Commuting kills so much time and energy that could be spent creating. -Sir Richard Branson, Founder, The Virgin Group Wise words from the early 2000’s and certainly applicable to our current pandemic.  Starting a year ago, how many companies and businesses were caught off guard and…

Attaining objectives and producing meaningful results constitute the goals of most businesses.  It makes sense to develop and support workplace cultures that underpin these intentions.  Bias, prejudice, disrespect, and counterproductive attitudes and behaviors stemming from emotional discomfort and outright fear, hinder and often defeat these goals and intentions. Although companies and HR departments specifically have…

In the past, jobs were about muscles, now they’re about brains, but in the future they’ll be about the heart. -Minouche Shafik- Director, London School of Economics The current movement from a control and command type of leadership to a more empowering and collaborative servant leadership style is both undeniable and highly efficacious.  And focusing…

The Blog title alone sounds like an oxymoron, doesn’t it?  At least that’s the reaction I get when I bring my Dare To Lead™ program to board rooms and corporate teams.  I’ve heard more than once, “Are you crazy? Vulnerability at work is suicide!”  Dramatic, yes.  Accurate, not so much.  Prevalent? Very. The concept of vulnerability…

A segment of a training film I viewed in grad school has stayed with me for forty years.  I can visualize it even now.  And even now I feel the same discomfort and urge to look away.  A schizophrenic mother was bottle feeding her 5-month-old infant.  She kept absently and methodically trying to slide the…