PvP Culture at Work: Why Your Best People Are Fighting Each Other
When colleagues compete against each other instead of the market, everyone loses. Here’s how PvP culture takes root in organizations, what it costs, and the practical steps high-trust workplaces use to redirect ambition toward shared goals. In organizations that make our best workplaces list, 85 per cent of employees agree that “people avoid politicking and […]
How Marriott Keeps Its People Promise Across Southeast Asia’s Fast-Growing Hotel Market
Here’s a thing that happens in the wild and wonderful world of hotels more often than an ordinary traveler will ever realize: they shapeshift. One morning the flag out front reads one brand; by the time they’ve reprinted the key cards, it’s another. Across Asia Pacific what the industry calls deflagging, or switching a property’s […]
Ageism Is Now The Top Concern In Malaysian Workplaces
Ageism has quietly become Malaysian employees’ top DE&I concern, even as four generations now work side by side and many people stay in the workforce into their 50s and 60s. What we’ve come to think of the standard working age in Malaysia is rapidly changing. Now more than ever, Malaysians in their 50s and 60s […]
The 5 Elements Of Meaningful Work In The Age Of AI
Work redesign has emerged faster than expected as a critical leadership skill. Research shows humans do their best work when they feel like it has meaning. The five elements of meaningful work are task integrity, mastery, autonomy, significance and connectedness. Wasn’t AI just meant to take the boring work off our hands? To make […]
Work Life and Leadership in 2026: Predictions and Resolutions
2026 has arrived, carried in on the steady, high-frequency hum of a thousand autonomous agents and new buzzwords. We’re moving beyond the decade of disorientation into a phygital reality, where the boundary between our physical personhood and our digital personas has all but dissolved. The office is no longer a destination for a desk but […]
The Kindness Method of Leadership at Christmas
Employees who feel cared for are 70% more likely to go the extra mile. 91% of employees with supportive leaders’ report feeling safe to innovate. Embedding kindness into operations outperform on nearly every metric. As another Christmas rolls around Ebenezer Scrooge, literature’s greatest example of a leader transformed, comes to mind. In A Christmas […]
A Guide To Psychological Safety At Work
Across 80,000 employees, trust in leaders emerged as one of the clearest predictors of workplace well-being. Workplaces with weaker climates of trust and fairness report slower project rollout, higher burnout, and more turnover. Regular pulse and climate surveys, such as the Great Place To Work Trust Index, are emerging as critical infrastructure. Like a […]
Building a More Compassionate Workplace
Celebrating World Kindness Day by exploring how workplace compassion drives success As we celebrate World Kindness Day on November 13th, it’s worth examining how fostering a culture of kindness can transform not just individual well-being, but entire organizations. Far from being a “nice-to-have” quality, kindness has emerged as a critical leadership competency that directly impacts […]