Dave's Library

You've landed the interview for your perfect job. You're on the phone with a potential new client.

Martin Luther King's last speech

One rainy afternoon a few years ago, I was driving into Seattle for a networking event when my husband called me on my cell. I answered (this was pre-hands-free law) and listened, noting the barely perceptible panic in his voice: something unexpected had come up, and he needed the car for an off-sit

Adam Galinsky of Columbia University Business School teaches you how to negotiate salary.

It started as social software for work, but Slack now has our :heart:, time, and data.

Just don’t spend too much time on it.

Don’t let collaboration sabotage you.

You want to write messages that are short and sweet—but not too short or too sweet.

You’ll see how your colleagues really work.

Especially for the big decisions.

The benefits go beyond reading more.

Virginia McLaurin, 106, danced, jigged, and whooped her way across the room when she met Barack and Michelle Obama for Black History Month.

In some settings, more than 90% of the time and effort invested isn't in the actual 'work', but in getting setting up, debugging and then polishing the work. Heart surgery, for example, might take five hours to perform, but the...

Find brilliant people in unusual places.

Canny negotiators know that people respond to anchors. If you tell me that your baseball card is for sale for $18, I'm unlikely to offer you $3. Your offering price anchored the conversation. The thing is, we do this outside...

Deep Thwings Charles Franklin Thwing is a largely forgotten but impressive figure from the early twentieth century. He graduated Harvard in the 1870s,

Graduate beyond random coffee meetings.

Brad Duke won $220 million in the lottery in 2005. Duke talks about the moment he realized he'd won, and how his life changed after winning.

Delaying the completion of a project may actually make you more creative.

Debunking three common misconceptions.

In “Dancing, So As Not to Be Dead,” Ray Bradbury’s introduction to The Illustrated Man, he starts with a story about Laurent, a waiter in Paris, who spends his life between working and dancing. “I …