What makes a happy workplace? It's pretty clear that most of us want more than just a paycheck. We walso want to do something we care about. The quest to build a corporate culture around meaningful work is what led Chip Conley to the pioneering psychologist Abraham Maslow and his "hierarchy of needs." At the bottom of Maslow's pyramid are baisc survival needs like food and shelter. And at the top is "self-actualization," where people reach their full potential. So what would a self-actualizing company look like?
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Adharanand Finn had always been a runner. But when he started to train seriously after his child was born, he thought, why not go to Kenya, to run seriously and to try to unlock the secrets of speed.
Amy Vedder and Bill Weber founded the Mountain Gorilla Project in Rwanda some twenty five years ago. They explain how they envision eco-tourism preserving the gorilla habitat.
Don't ask Anna Dietrich if she invented a car that can fly. No one can do that she says. She did, however, invent a plane that can drive.
"I’m a different person when I’m in Nepal..." Jeffrey Potter has been documenting life in a village in eastern Nepal for 20 years. During a trip there in 2000, he was present for the death of a young man named Harka. In this story, he talks about how that experience that was both profound and unexplainable.
Chronic homelessness can seem like an intractable problem in America, but there's a new experiment going on across the country that's offering a bold new solution. The answer? Give people homes without any preconditions attached. It's called Housing First, and it's changing the way social workers think about homelesness.
Alan Doyle is the lead singer of the band Great Big Sea. He stopped by our studios to talk about the ins and outs of his first solo album, "Boy on Bridge."
Anne Fadiman talks about the delight she and her brother took as children with collecting (and killing) butterflies.
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