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Leading Without Armor: Empathy As A Strategic Advantage
Many leaders have been taught a narrow equation for success. Be tough. Be decisive. Be the smartest person in the room. Keep emotions out of it. On paper, that formula promised results. In reality, it quietly drained teams, fueled burnout, and left …
Beyond Activities: Building Youth Experiences That Shape Who Kids Become
For many families, the weekly calendar is overflowing. Practices, games, lessons, birthday parties, school events, and the logistics that come with all of it. The last thing most parents want is “one more activity.”
What they do want is…
Emotional Intelligence As An Operating System For Modern Restaurants
For a long time, restaurant performance was framed almost entirely through numbers: comp sales, traffic counts, ticket averages. If the dashboard looked healthy, the business was considered healthy.
That equation is cracking.
Guests are eating dif…
From Courts To Communities: How Youth Sports Shape Who We Become
For many businesses, “community” still shows up as a marketing slogan. It is a word on a wall, a theme in an ad, or a nice-to-have line in a brand story. But for the people who show up every week, community is not an idea. It is felt in …
Designing Businesses People Want To Belong To
For a lot of brands, community is something they talk about after the P&L. It shows up in mission statements, wall art, and the occasional fundraiser. Yet the real test is simple: when people think about your company, do they remember a transact…
Leading With Emotional Intelligence When Decisions Rewrite Lives
For a long time, emotional intelligence was treated as something extra. Nice if you had it, optional if you did not. The leaders who got promoted were often the ones who drove numbers, not the ones who knew how to read a room, listen deeply, or stea…
Designing Business Cultures That People Want To Belong To
For years, culture was treated like a side effect. Leaders focused on strategy, financials, and operations, then hoped that a healthy culture would somehow emerge if the numbers looked good.
Reality is catching up. Research now shows that almost al…
When Community Becomes Your Competitive Advantage
For years, many brands treated customer relationships as a simple equation: deliver a product quickly, keep prices competitive, and call it a day. If the food was hot and the line moved fast, that was considered a win.
Today, that is not enough.
C…
Leading With Empathy When People Are The Product
For years, many leaders treated empathy as a nice to have, something that belonged in personal relationships but not in serious business. What mattered at work was performance, efficiency, and results. If people were struggling, the thinking went, t…
Building Work Models That Respect Real Life
For years, work was designed around the needs of the organization, not the lives of the people inside it. Schedules were fixed, commutes were assumed, and careers followed rigid tracks that left little room for change. If you wanted a different kind…
Expanding The Definition Of Success In Business
For a long time, business success was treated like a simple equation: hit your revenue targets, keep margins healthy, grow year over year. If you checked those boxes, you were considered a good leader and a successful company.
But more and more, th…
When Systems and Heart Grow Together
For years, companies have tried to fix performance issues by adding more data, more tools, and more process. They build dashboards, automate workflows, and chase efficiency. Then they look up and realize something is still missing.
Emotional intell…
Trust Is The Missing Infrastructure Of Modern Work
Most conversations about the future of work still orbit the same themes: hybrid policies, office mandates, collaboration tools, and productivity metrics. Companies swap one platform for another, tweak schedules, and reorganize teams, yet something f…
When Joy Becomes A Business Strategy
For a long time, business success was framed in blunt terms: hit the numbers, keep shareholders happy, grow at all costs. Profit was the destination, and everything else was negotiable.
That story is changing. Research on purpose driven companies c…
Designing Connection As A Business Strategy
Most companies say people are their greatest asset, but the lived experience inside many organizations tells a different story. Employees feel disconnected from the mission. Customers feel like ticket numbers. Communities barely know the brands they…
Why In-Person Events Will Matter More In An AI-Driven World
As AI accelerates and more of our work moves into digital channels, it is tempting to assume that corporate events will slowly shrink into the background. If AI can personalize learning, simulate interactions, and automate communication, why invest …
Redefining Profit In A World Hungry For Meaning
For a long time, business success was measured in a straight line: revenue, margins, growth. If those numbers were up and to the right, the story was considered good enough.
That story is breaking.
Employees are asking whether their work matters. …
Mindset, Not Mechanics: Emotional Intelligence as the Real Engine of Business Growth
Research shows that around 90 percent of top performers score high in emotional intelligence, while only a small fraction of low performers do. Yet most companies still invest far more in strategy, systems, and technical training than in helping lea…
Business Beyond Profit: Why Conscious Leadership Is Becoming a Competitive Advantage
In an era defined by rapid change, rising expectations, and growing complexity, the companies that endure are not the ones that focus only on profit. They are the ones grounded in purpose, humanity, and responsibility. On The Bliss Business Podcast,…
The Human Equation: Why Community Is the Real Competitive Advantage
Seventy-nine percent of consumers say they want brands to create real connection, not just transactions. It’s a staggering number that reflects a deeper truth about business today: people crave belonging.
On The Bliss Business Podcast, Jonath…
Innovative Work Models for the Future
According to a recent Deloitte study, 76 percent of executives say their biggest challenge is scaling innovation across the organization. While technology races forward, many leaders still struggle to evolve their work models to keep up. The real qu…
What Every CEO Needs to Know About Workforce ROI
Gallup estimates that disengaged employees cost U.S. companies nearly $1.9 trillion annually. Yet most CEOs measure financial performance with precision while leaving workforce performance largely to instinct. The result is one of the biggest hidden…
Visibility as Service: Turning Presence into Purpose
Visibility often gets mistaken for vanity. Yet as Brooke Clark, Founder and CEO of Seat One A Advisors, shared on The Bliss Business Podcast, visibility is not about self-promotion. It is about service. When leaders share what they have learned, the…
The Power of Story: How Connection Begins with Narrative
In business, numbers often take center stage, but data alone rarely inspires change. People don’t move because of metrics. They move because of meaning. On The Bliss Business Podcast, Gavin McMahon, engineer-turned-storyteller and author of St…