Dorie Clark examines how rapid social and technological change disrupted our definition of what a meaningful and successful professional life looks like.

When the most selective universities in the United States sent out their admissions decisions for the Class of 2019 a few weeks ago, they also publicly announced—somewhat proudly—how few students they actually admitted this year. In most cases, fewer than one out of ten students were accepted to places such as Stanford, Harvard, and Princeton.Such numbers and the anxiety they produce among high-school students and their parents frustrates Ben Nelson. He graduated from one of those institutions, the University of Pennsylvania, in the mid-1990s. That’s when it was slightly eas

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A company study found that a manager’s technical skills were far less valued by employees than people skills.

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Redeeming The Luddite Caucus Earlier this morning I was reading The Washington Post while watching the sun rise (I have two young kids at home: I find quiet

A new study shows that pronouns are small, but potent, signals.

A global look at the state of women's roles in leadership, the pay gap, women's representation in media, and more.

Regular check-ins save time in the long run.

In many important decision-making areas of American life, women remain vastly outnumbered, and the Glass Ceiling Index shows it.

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On the front page of yesterday's New York Time's Business Section was an article called "Vivek Wadhwa, Voice for Women in Silicon Valley, Is Foiled by His Tone" by Farhad Manjoo, and needless to say, the headline caught my attention. It also raised immediate concern. The fact that there was a male voice for women in Silicon Valley? Awesome. He was foiled? Decidedly less awesome. Particularly because I have been waiting for a headline like this for forever. Not the foiled part, of course, but the part about male voices standing up for gender bias. I've dreamed of the day when I open

The sad reality in workplaces: Women help more but benefit less from it.

What happens after you leave the room is most crucial.

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Living to please others opens you up to attack—here's how to stop.

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