Blogs About "Avril David"

In the past year I've spoken to dozens of people who've been facing quarter-life crises in their twenties. Simply put, they hate their jobs. And given that we tend to spend most of our waking hours at our jobs, they kind of hate their lives, too.

But aren't your early to late twenties supposed to be when you're lofty and idealistic and in the prime of your life? Well, not so much...

During my freshman year in college, I received a great piece of advice from one of my professors. At the time, I still carried quite a bit of shyness from my days as a high school -let's be honest –nerd, and I was often reluctant to speak up in class out of fear of judgment.

After turning in my first assignment for the course, my professor asked if I could meet...

I recently read that Staples and Entrepreneur.com have teamed up to offer a $10, 000 green office makeover to the small business that submits the best proposal for making its workplace more "green."

When I first read this news I wondered: what small business has the time (or incentive) to think about being green unless its employees already happen to be eco-minded or the business itself is based on something green, like...

I recently had the honor of interviewing one of the Under-Secretary-Generals of the United Nations for a book project titled, “Women in Power at the United Nations”. When asked about her approach to her career and what advice she would offer to driven young women, the Under-Secretary-General said "learn to surf on the waves of possibility”.

Coming from a woman who has achieved such success, in a position of power that...

I’m a firm believer that all real change starts from within, but when it comes to reducing corporate emissions, does it make the most business sense to start from within by reducing emissions internally or to outsource it by purchasing carbon offsets?

Outsourcing makes sense when you can get a service done cheaper or faster elsewhere than it can be done in-house. The same basic principle is at work behind offsets. The...

There's a great quote by Henry Ford that goes "The question 'who ought to be boss' is like asking 'who ought to be the tenor in the quartet'. Obviously, the man who can sing tenor". When it comes to leadership development, we sometimes forget this essential component - being a leader in action.

In a recent article for Forbes.com, I wrote about CAP, competence, attitude and potential - the three qualities that...

If you've eaten in a hurry in New York City lately, then you're no stranger to the type of behavioral nudging that can be done by making you aware of hidden facts behind your purchases. Fast-food and other chain restaurants are now required to provide clearly visible calorie data to their New York customers, in menus, on signs and pretty much everywhere. I have been shocked to discover just how many...

Normally, when I write about organizational intelligence, I present it as a way of operating within your workplace in order to achieve goals. However, through having conversations with family, friends and colleagues outside of work, I've found that the basic framework behind organizational intelligence can be applied to other aspects of your life in order to make improvements that matter to you.

Developing organizational intelligence at work allows you to:
Deeply understand...

In recent years, a plethora of books, surveys, courses and workshops geared towards developing one’s emotional intelligence has become commonplace in the career and personal development space. And rightfully so, as emotional intelligence can play a key role in one’s success at work and in life in general.

According to Howard Gardner's "Intelligence Reframed", emotional intelligence is the capacity to understand one's self and to use that information in regulating one's own...