For many of us, home and work hold nearly equal importance. We want to be great parents, attentive friends, and stellar employees simultaneously, so...
Recalibrate Your Work-Life Balance with These 4 Questions
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How to Create a 'Powerful' Culture
Radical honesty, the importance of cultural fit—these terms are familiar to most of us. But when Patty McCord, Chief Talent Officer of Netflix,...
The Real Potential of Emotional Agility
You’ve heard about “emotional intelligence.” So what’s “emotional agility” and how is it different? Xenium’s own Tyler Meuwissen joins us to discuss...
The Positive Effects of Magnetic Leaders
Attracting and retaining the right talent is one of the biggest challenges of running a successful business. So, what’s the secret? The key,...
Why They Follow – How to Lead with Positive Influence, with Author Scott Love
How do you establish yourself as a leader who people want to be around, support, and follow? How do you nourish a thriving, growing, constantly...
Why Great Leaders Work on Themselves First
To be a great leader, you must first establish and follow your own life plan. That’s the premise of the book Living Forward: A Proven Plan to Stop...
Invisible Influence: The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior – Book Discussion & Review
How much of our decision making is truly born out of our own deeply held beliefs and values rather than a product of messaging from brands and media...
My Favorite Books of 2015
In the throws of everything going on in my life, I always try to carve out time for reading. Of the books I read during 2015—which was a mix of...
Conversationally Speaking – Book Review
The Xenium book club has dabbled in quite a variety of books over the past few years. From fables, such as The Leader Who Had No Title,...
'Hardwiring Happiness' Book Review
In one way or another, we are all trying to find ways to achieve greater happiness in the workplace. For me, happiness at work translates to...
Book Review: Search Inside Yourself by Chade Meng Tan
I recommended this book to the Xenium Book Club after becoming intrigued by what I have read about Google and their positive culture. Search Inside...
‘Search Inside Yourself’ Brings Mindfulness Practices to Business – Book Review and Summary
At Xenium, we are constantly looking for ways to grow as people, and so we often push ourselves to learn new things and step out of our comfort...
What's Xenium's Brandon Laws Reading?
This article is part of a series of blog posts entitled, “What’s Xenium Reading?” To find out more about this series, click here. This week’s post...
Book Review – Team Renaissance: The Art, Science & Politics of Great Teams
Authors Richard Spoon and Jan Risher collaborate for a book entitled Team Renaissance: The Art, Science & Politics of Great Teams, which is a...
Book Review – The Four Agreements: a Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
The Four Agreements: a Practical Guide to Personal Freedom is a book that is a little less about business and more about finding oneself—at home and...