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The nation's doctors are being enlisted in a new fight: reclaiming children's right to play. A research paper urges pediatricians to prescribe playtime.

One day a year isn’t much to spend honoring the folks that built everything. One day a year for the more than twenty that died from the heights and in the caissons as they built the Brooklyn …

Indra Nooyi, who will be retiring from her role as CEO of PepsiCo, has been honest about the personal sacrifices that came with the job. Now with retirement on the horizon, were the sacrifices worth it?

The New Children’s Museum in Downtown San Diego, California is dedicated to helping children learn and experience the world through the lens of contemporary art.

So you've heard of radical candor by now, right? That's just one of many tools you'll need to be a better boss, according to Candor, Inc. co-founder Kim Scott. You also must master the different modes of performance on your team — especially for your top people. Here's why.

Adam Grant

You've no doubt heard it said that titles don't make leaders. That's more true than ever in this age when good ideas so often trump position and tenure. Leadership is more about setting direction than giving directions. Here's one experts take on the subject.

The only way to really know how to make your life awesome would be to follow a lot of people for their entire lives and see what works. Luckily somebody did...

The best-selling author of 'Start With Why' and 'Leaders Eat Last' ends the argument on what makes a great leader.

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California's rivers flow from among the country's wettest rainforests and driest deserts.

Information and opinions about leadership and management development by expert Dan McCarthy

Seven years ago, I shared a secret about juggling: Throwing is more important than catching. If you’re good at throwing, the catching takes care of itself. Emergency response is overrated com…

Perception is Truth . .

It's not just the noise that's distracting. It's the annoying behavior of your co-workers.

Are your friendships giving you a boost or bringing you down?

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At Pinterest and LinkedIn, product leader Jack Chou learned firsthand how vital it is to zero in continuously on what keeps people motivated as a company scales. Now Head of Product at Affirm, here are the four components of workplace motivation that he leans on from the start.

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Short Talk on Humble Inquiry for leaders

Humble leaders have often been overshadowed by their charismatic counterparts but research has shown that humble leadership can lead to greater collaboration and improved performance.

A major new study questions the common wisdom about how we should choose our careers.

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Twenty years ago, a few colleagues and I launched a consulting practice to help leaders build more effective organizations through practical, non-touchy-feely work around leadership, teamwork, clarity, communication and human systems. We believed then—and still do today—that far too many organizatio