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Halla Tomasdottir managed to take her company Audur Capital through the eye of the financial storm in Iceland by applying 5 traditionally ‘feminine’ values to financial services. She talks about these values and the importance of balance.
Tags: A feminine response to Iceland's Financial Crash, Audur Capital, Audur the Wise, Björk, clear space, corporate America, diversity, economic crisis, emotional capital, executive education, feminine values, Financial, financial services, financial services industry, Halla Tomasdottir, happiness, Iceland, important balance, independence, investment firm, Kristin Petursdottir, M&M/Mars, Managing Director of the Iceland Chamber of Commerce, National Green-Tech Investment Fund, Pepsi-Cola, profit with principles, Reykjavik University, risk awareness, social responsibility, straight talk, Viking settler, wealth, women entrepreneurship programmes
Beverly & Dereck Joubert live in the bush, filming and photographing lions and leopards in their natural habitat. With stunning footage (some never before seen), they discuss their personal relationships with these majestic animals and their quest to save the big cats from human threats.
Tags: African continent, Beverly & Dereck Joubert, Beverly Joubert, Big Cats Initiative, books, Botswana, bush homes, comicStyle, community and commerce, conservationists, Dereck Joubert, documentaries, Emmy Awards, endangered habitats, Eternal Enemies: Lions and Hyena, Gail Penney, Great Plains Conservation, human threats, Ideas worth spreading, Indian Ocean, leopards, lifeStyle, lions, low impact tourism, magazine articles, main blog, majestic animals, mindStyle matters, National Geographic Explorers in Residence, nature, new model for preservation, partners, penneylane, penneylaneonline, photograph, photographing lions and leopards, photographs, preservation, preserving key species, public awareness, quest, sale of carbon credits, save the big cats, scientific journals, Ted Talk, turnStyle, VidStyle, villas, visual work, wildlife, www.penneylaneonline.com
William Ury, author of ‘Getting to Yes’, offers an elegant, simple (but not easy) way to create agreement in even the most difficult situations from family conflict to, perhaps, the Middle East.
Tags: Aceh, author, avert an accidental nuclear war, award winning, co-author, co-founder Harvard's Programme on Negotiation, comicStyle, consultant, corporate executives, corporate mergers, create agreement, Crisis Management Centre, customers, difficult situations, diplomats, end civil wars, ethnic wars, family conflict, former President Jimmy Carter, former Soviet Union, Gail Penney, Getting Past No: Negotiating with Difficult People and Getting To Peace, Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In, Ideas worth spreading, Indonesia, International Negotiation Network, joint-venture partners, labour leaders, lifeStyle, main blog, mediator, Middle East, Middle East conflict, military officers, mindStyle matters, mutually profitable agreements, negotiation adviser, non-governmental body, nuclear crisis centres, penneylane, penneylaneonline, Roger Fisher, Senior Fellow Harvard Negotiation Project, suppliers, taught negotiation, Ted Talk, the Balkans, The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No & Still Get to Yes, The walk from No to Yes, turnStyle, unions, Venezuela, VidStyle, White House, wildcat strikes, William Ury, www.penneylaneonline.com
Brene Brown studies human connection, our ability to empathise, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity. A talk to share.
Tags: authenticity, Brene Brown, comicStyle, Courage, cultivate the compassion, cultivate the connection, cultivate the courage, embrace our imperfections, embrace our vulnerabilities, empathy, engage in our lives, funny talk, Gail Penney, How do we learn, human connection, Ideas worth spreading, insight, lifeStyle, main blog, mindStyle matters, penneylane, penneylaneonline, personal quest, poignant talk, research, research professor, shame, Ted Talk, The power of Vulnerability, turnStyle, understand humanity, University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work, VidStyle, vulnerability, Wholeheartedness, worthiness, worthy of belonging, worthy of joy, worthy of love, www.penneylaneonline.com
When the dotcom bubble burst, hotelier Chip Conley went in search of a business model based on happiness. In an old friendship with an employee and in the wisdom of a Buddhist king, he learned that success comes from what you count.
Tags: bookstore, california, Chip Conley, comicStyle, corporate social responsibility, creative business development, customers, dotcom bubble burst, employees, full realisation, full realization, Gail Penney, Gross National Happiness Index, happiness-based business model, hotelier, human behavior, human desires, Ideas worth spreading, identity refreshment, innovative design formula, investors, Joie de Vivre Hospitality, joy of life, lifeStyle, main blog, Maslow's Pyramid, Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, measuring success, mindStyle matters, PEAK: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow, penneylane, penneylaneonline, phoenix, potential, quality of life, self-actualisation, self-actualization, self-help, success, Ted Talk, tenderloin district, transformative enterprises, turnStyle, unique hotels, VidStyle, wisdom, www.penneylaneonline.com
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