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A Modest Proposal Last month, I wrote an intentionally provocative article for the Harvard Business Review's website. It was titled, "A Modest Proposal:

In an industry where a private office flush with glass plaques and deal mementos is the ultimate sign of success, commercial real estate firm CBRE gambled on a new strategy that hinged on concepts workers tend to hate. Employees seem to love it—but more importantly, clients are begging for it.

[This is an excerpt from The Dance of the Possible: the mostly honest completely irreverent guide to creativity] Many of our popular stories of discovery are portrayed as accidents or matters of lu…

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

In August of 2015, I was invited to give a TED Talk. Here's the full (very stressful) story.

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

Blockhead power adapter for Apple charger

Maybe I’m biased because I’m a writer, but when it was announced in 2010, the iPad struck me as a device which could become a great tool for, amongst many things, my craft. A number of good writing apps (and accessories) have appeared in that time, but when I found Ulysses about a year ago,

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.

Younger people’s brains just aren’t as good at dealing with stress.

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.