Within each of us are two selves, suggests David Brooks in this meditative short talk: the self who craves success, who builds a résumé, and the self who seeks connection, community, love -- the values that make for a great eulogy. (Joseph Soloveitchik has called these selves "Adam I" and "Adam II.") Brooks asks: Can we balance these two selves?

Resilience is a set of skills—and psychologists know how you can learn them.

Steve Ko's blog

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

[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

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...

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