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Robert Greene is a master guide for millions, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people's drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves.

Quietly Powerful challenges quiet professionals to reframe the story they tell themselves about their leadership potential—and encourages organisations to expand their ideas about what good leadership looks, sounds, and feels like.

In this follow-up to his best-selling The 80/20 Principle, the power law that helped hundreds of thousands achieve more by doing less, Richard Koch puts science to work, applying 92 other natural laws to promote the "science of success" within the ever-changing world of business. What does Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection prove about developing a niche product line? How can Isaac Newton's laws of motion and gravity help in a crowded marketplace?

Companies need to grow, innovate, and adapt to changing needs. But stressed-out employees rarely go the extra mile, chaos rarely produces agility or speed, and it’s hard innovate or grow while bleeding talent to turnover and quiet quitting. This is how change stymies the very progress that it seeks. Drawing on decades spent leading HR operations at Deloitte and Cisco, Ashley Goodall explores the essential nature of human performance and offers a radical new alternative to the constant turbulence that defines corporate life.

Two Harvard Business School professors synthesize 200 years of thought along with the latest research drawn from the biological and social sciences to propose a new theory, a unified synthesis of human nature. Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria have studied the way people behave in that most fascinating arena of human behavior - the workplace - and from their work they produce a book that examines the four separate and distinct emotive drives that guide human behavior.

In The New Nature of Business: The Path to Prosperity and Sustainability, businessman Andre Hoffmann and journalist Peter Vanham describe how companies should change their ways to have continued success, and why the current modus operandi is not working. They present a template for creating "sustainable prosperity", and case-studies of companies that survived and thrived by opting for change. In doing so, they provide a way out of long-standing dilemmas, such as how to balance business needs with impact on nature, shareholders with stakeholders, and short-term vs. long-term profits.

In a time of volatile and complex uncertainty, it is time to learn the lessons that nature has compiled from 3.8 billion years of research and development. Nature is an interdependent, dynamic, and living system – just like today’s organizations and communities. Kathleen Allen uses nature as a model, mentor, and muse to rethink how leadership is practiced today. Leading from the Roots takes nature as a source of inspiration to help organizations see a new way of leading and designing workplace structure.

In this podcast series, executive coach, keynote speaker and author, Giles Hutchins, interviews pioneering leaders from diverse organisations, exploring future fit leadership and organisational development.Each episode, Giles and an esteemed guest will discuss the inner nature and outer nature of their respective organisation and the inner and outer nature of themselves as a leader, as they journey toward regenerative futures.For more information on Leading by Nature, you can follow Giles Hutchins on LinkedIn, or visit gileshutchins.com for free downloads of tools and practices for ...

A Drop in the Ocean is the podcast amplifying ocean-caring voices. Host Stu Davies speaks with ocean changemakers, innovators and digital experts to explore how ocean-focused organisations share their stories, overcome challenges, and grow their impact.

On the Edge is an engaging leadership manual that provides concrete insights garnered from various extreme environments ranging from Mt Everest to the South Pole. By reflecting on the lessons learned from her various expeditions, author Alison Levine makes the case that the leadership principles that apply in extreme adventure sport also apply in today's extreme business environments. Both settings require you to be able to make crucial decisions on the spot when the conditions around you are far from perfect.

After years of having motivational smoke blown up our collective backsides, we've started to act as if we are all generous, bold, and intelligent - all of the time! We've designed our organizations, teams, systems, products, relationships, and lives so we can succeed only under ideal 'laboratory' conditions. Anything less than perfection often means catastrophe. The problem is that's not how human beings work at all.

Listen closely — the natural world is speaking. Whispers of the Nature explores the hidden rhythms, quiet patterns, and subtle signs found in forests, oceans, skies, and soil. Through science, storytelling, and wonder, each episode reveals how nature communicates, adapts, and connects all living things in ways we’re only beginning to understand.

Take a moment to pause, breathe, and reconnect with the natural world. In this 5-minute guided meditation, we invite you to visualize peaceful landscapes, listen to the sounds of nature, and ground yourself in the present moment. Whether you’re starting your day or winding down, this short session offers calm, clarity, and a gentle reminder of the beauty around—and within—you.

In this episode, we dive into some of the most exciting and groundbreaking scientific discoveries in the natural world. From newly identified species and unexpected animal behaviors to surprising shifts in ecosystems and climate data, we explore how ongoing research is reshaping our understanding of nature. Join us for a fascinating journey through the latest findings, and hear from scientists at the forefront of ecological and environmental science.

In Nature of Work: The New Story of Work for a Living Age, Paul Miller, CEO and founder of Digital Workplace Group (DWG), and Shimrit Janes, DWG's director of knowledge, draw on patterns from forests and the natural world to illustrate a dynamic, vital, and more beautiful world of work that our hearts and minds know is possible.

Join us for a captivating series of panel discussions, where we'll peel back the layers of Nature of Sound's initiatives and partnerships. Each session will explore the synergies between creative arts, gaming, survivor empowerment, and the vital services we provide.

Long stories told somewhat succinctly. Fight the good fight.

In every Nature in a Nutshell episode, we sit down to chat about the latest ecology news in the UK and Ireland. We will break down what it means and how it might impact nature, society, and those working in this space in an easily digestible way. Whether you are an aspiring ecologist or environmental manager, there will be something for you. This podcast is brought to you by the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management. CIEEM is the leading professional membership body representing and supporting ecologists and environmental managers in the UK, Ireland and abroad.With a ...

Thanks for tuning in to listen to Nature’s True Crime, tales of the more unknown natural disasters, how they happened, and what impacts they had on the areas affected. Every now and then we do an "Off the rails" section, where we discuss weird, unknown, things that have happened that may not specifically fall under the "Nature" theme. Natures True Crime is a podcast produced by Saneka's Legacy an environmental education non profit in Florida. All in all we like to discuss odd occurrences and have fun!

At Svarmi, we enjoy learning about how organisations around world are taking tangible steps towards a nature positive future. This podcast contains our discussions with leaders across different fields, where we learn about their plans for aligning their business with existing and emerging nature-related disclosure frameworks, stakeholder engagement and management of risks and opportunities. Intro/Outro Music: Limbo by Hakon.