The more attention we can devote to helping developing leaders tune in to their core values - drawing on their real experience and their true aspirations in life - the more likely it is they'll make smart choices about how and where to invest their talents.

When employers no longer offer secure full-time employment with benefits, then it's hard to expect employees to be loyal, engaged, and maximally productive.

At the individual level, you need to examine what you truly value, share this with key stakeholders in various life domains both to get feedback and support, and then to experiment with new ways of doing things so that - over the arc of a life - you can achieve harmony and have more of what it is that you uniquely want out of life.

The worst thing you can do, despite the innumerable obstacles we confront, is to not try.

Of course that's the best way to continue to learn anything: Try to teach it!

The act of envisioning is mainly useful as a means for identifying what matters most to you now.

We all want to have a rich and meaningful work life and a fulfilling life beyond work.