Getting Better by Being Wrong with Annie Duke
Among Today’s Most Prized Leadership Qualities: Playing Nicely
Getting along well with your peers counts for a lot when you vie for the same plum promotion. Your management career may benefit even if you lose the race. Yet it can be hard to cooperate and compete at the same time.
How Our Careers Affect Our Children
It’s the quality of time parents spend with their children, not the quantity.
What do executives do, anyway?
An executive with 8,000 indirect reports and 2000 hours of work in a year can afford to spend, at most, 15 minutes per year per person in th...
The Whistle-Blower Knows How to Write
His complaint offers lessons on how to make a point.
How to Be Confident
Dany Garcia runs one of the most influential companies you probably haven’t heard of
Kai Ryssdal
I’m 14, and I quit social media after discovering what was posted about me
Sonia Bokhari
Love Your Job? Someone May be Taking Advantage of You
Professor Aaron Kay found that when we see someone as passionate about their work, we see it as more legitimate to exploit them.
The Dangers of Hiring for Cultural Fit
Employers often aim to hire people they think will be a good fit, but their efforts can easily veer into a ditch where new hires all look, think and act alike.
Use Minecraft to Teach Your Kids Pretty Much Anything
There’s a reason the New York Times calls them “The Minecraft Generation.” Today’s kids and teens have been raised on the game, cutting their teeth on survival mode and moving on to creating complex, multiplayer worlds within Minecraft. But Minecraft’s vast community (112 million people log on per month!) are doing more than playing a game. They are occupied in a deeply engaging educational experience that encourages problem solving, creativity, planning and execution—and can even teach older kids coding and electrical engineering.
On Bring Wrong
Most of us will do anything to avoid being wrong. But what if we're wrong about that? "Wrongologist" Kathryn Schulz makes a compelling case for not just admitting but embracing our fallibility.
Workers Are Fleeing Big Cities for Smaller Ones—and Taking Their Jobs With Them
People who do their jobs from home, freelance or frequently travel for work are fueling a renaissance in American cities that lie outside the major job hubs.
Your Expense Report Is a Window Into Your Soul
How you handle the costs you run up on company time can hint at whether your job is making you happy, or even your sense of ethics and fairness.
What First-Time Managers Should Know In 2020
Gary Vaynerchuk
The real cost of not wearing makeup at the office
I spend 15 times more than my husband when it comes to personal grooming. But finance experts don’t often talk about the professional cost of opting out.
Should Work Be Passion, or Duty?
Too many of us expect our jobs to give meaning to our lives. There is a better way.
Younger Workers Report Biggest Gains in Happiness With Pay
American workers under 35 report being happier with their paychecks than people over 55 for the first time since at least 2011, according to a new report from the Conference Board.
The Trebek Affirmation Soundboard
This soundboard is an homeage to the great Alex Trebek. Use it when you need a few words of encouragement.
These 2 women are the first sisters ever to become Army generals
The US Army has plenty of famous examples of brother generals, but sisters? Now that's another story.
For Business Travelers, Apps to Find Enviable Workspaces
These 9 apps and websites help road warriors find covetable places to get the job done—from meeting rooms and co-working spots to hotel cabanas—all over the world.
A strategist’s guide to upskilling
Companies and local governments can unlock opportunity by working together to raise the quality of talent.
The Power of the Young
As we progress in our careers our passion has a tendency to wane. We often forget why we started down the path in the first place. The young remind us why we started …
Introducing LinkedIn Reactions: More Ways to Express Yourself
You can use Celebrate to praise an accomplishment or milestone like landing a new job or speaking at an event, or Love to express deep resonance and support, like a conversation about work life balance or the impact of mentorship. Insightful can help you recognize a great point or interesting idea, while Curious lets you show your desire to learn more or react to a thought-provoking topic. As a poster, these new reactions can help you better understand the impact your posts are having.
Leadership
Seth Godin
Three Things Overscheduled Kids Need More of in Their Lives
Playtime, downtime and family time are so essential to a child's healthy development. But with competing demands from school, extracurricular activities and anxiety, getting downtime might be hard to come by.
Eight reasons why introverts make great leaders
I’m an extreme introvert on the measurable scale that psychologists or coaches would use, but that hasn’t held me back. Quite the opposite, in fact.
Peter Drucker’s Advice to Aspiring Leaders
Five time-proven practices from the pioneering management thinker There aren’t a lot of business books from more than a half-century ago that have stood the test of time, but Peter Drucker’s The Effective Executive, issued in a spiffy 50th Anniversary edition in 2017, is one of the select few. Back
What makes the dollar strong?
Tariff and dollar
Meta
Podcast about podcasting from Seth Godin