Influence isn't some "magical quality" you're born with, it's a set of learnable actions, says executive coach and human behavior expert Melody Wilding.

Did you see that video of the guy who mows other people's lawns? Why do videos where someone helps someone in need go viral? There's a reason: It causes a feeling of what psychologists call "elevation ...

Annie Dillard, in The Writing Life, wrote, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this ...

In the first book I authored, Hardwiring Excellence, I used the metaphor of a flywheel to describe how consistent, values-driven actions create momentum in an organization. The idea of the flywheel ...