The South Caucasus: In pursuit of its lost identity
March 21, 2023
10 Remarkable Women Leaders to Watch, 2023
From This Issue
Influence and inspiration separate leaders from others, not power and control. Leadership is an individual’s ability to influence, motivate, and enable others to contribute toward organizational success.
The world needs leaders like who can think beyond problems, have a vision, and inspire people to convert challenges into opportunities, one step at a time.
COVER STORY
“Our value proposition is that everyone is entitled to travel to a destination where they are welcomed regardless of who they are, what they worship (or don’t), how they identify, and whom they love.”
FEATURES
Louise Hampton is focused on providing quality care.
Set on a personal mission to create a difference in people’s lives, Louise is an inspiring example of what can be achieved when a person is passionate about a cause and committed to making a difference.
Dr. Shalini Bahl is helping people take control of their lives through mindfulness
Using human-centered approaches to understand challenges of businesses, one can create custom solutions drawing from mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and psychology.
Penelope Przekop: Bringing the science of quality management to the pharma sector
Why it’s high time that we revolutionize regulatory compliance strategy in the pharmaceutical industry.
Victoria Jenkins is reducing inequalities with her fashion brand
What goes into building an inclusive adaptive fashion brand for people with disabilities.
THE BUSINESS
Pandemic pet boom has increased the demand for pet-friendly workplaces
A survey found six in 10 pet-owning workers left their job for a pet-friendly workplace and seven in 10 were willing to trade pay for a pet-friendly office.
First Nations are using ‘creative disruption’ to foster economic growth in their communities
First Nations have been resisting the historic and ongoing impacts of Canada’s extractive economy on their community.
Protecting privacy online begins with tackling ‘digital resignation’
Going online often involves surrendering some privacy, and many people are becoming resigned to the fact that their data will be collected and used without their explicit consent.
OUR HEALTH
Why a walk in the countryside “tames” our brain
“I’m going to the countryside over the weekend to disconnect.”
Even if you consider yourself to be a conventional thinker, there are ways to unleash your creativity.
Do you think that creativity is an innate gift? Think again.
Which state you live in matters for how well environmental laws protect your health
Chemical pesticides can be harmful to human health.
THE TECHNOLOGY
AI could make more work for us, instead of simplifying our lives
Demands associated with automation can create more work for humans.
How digital technology spawned retro’s revival
Even old-fashioned board games and role-playing games are experiencing a renaissance.
Five emerging trends that could change our lives online
The way we live our lives online is rapidly changing.
MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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POETRY
Power
You cannot put a fire out;
A thing that can ignite
Can go, itself, without a fan
Upon the slowest night.
You cannot fold a flood
And put it in a drawer, —
Because the winds would find it out,
And tell your cedar floor.
-Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Still I Rise
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
’Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own backyard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
-Maya Angelou
QUOTES
“Power’s not given to you. You have to take it.”
-Beyoncé Knowles Carter
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
-Amelia Earhart
“Nothing is impossible, the word itself says “I’m possible!”
-Audrey Hepburn
“If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don’t, you’re simply ducking your responsibilities.”
-Ann Richards
Women belong in all places where decisions are being made. … It shouldn’t be that women are the exception.
-Ruth Bader Ginsburg