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How the coach character is reminding us about what defines great leadership.

Employers are easing job requirements and speeding up hiring procedures to survive a U.S. labor market with more openings than applicants.

Laughing matters.

Agreeing with your boss (or your boss’s boss) usually feels easier, but it’s often better to voice your disagreement. Here's how to do that.... 42 comments on LinkedIn

It’s not what your employees really need from you.

Let's all give ourselves permission to be a little more human by feeling all the feelings in this incredibly challenging time.

Four ways to bridge the virtual gap.

Obsidian Website URL Scheme: obsidian:// URL Scheme Documentation Disclaimer: We are not Obsidian experts! This guide is meant to get people started with the basics of using Drafts with Obsidian. Feel free to expand on these ideas, or let us know if we’ve missed something important. Obsidian is a popular personal knowledge management application that focuses on organizing and cross-linking Markdown files. Drafts works nicely as a capture front-end for Obsidian. This article covers met...

On Monday, Apple announced that it was expanding the integration between Siri and Apple Music. Zane Lowe, Apple Music’s co-head of Artist Relations and radio host, explained that the company’s team of music experts had created hundreds of playlists for moods and activities. Ask Siri to play a playlist for your dinner party, to help

The rise of remote work during the pandemic is just one part of a generational shift that is redefining how and why we do our jobs.

I recently came across a Hemingway quote that caught my attention: “My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.”

Those in positions of authority can be oblivious to the outsize impact that seemingly innocuous statements and behavior can have on others.

Embracing long-term thinking can transform your career and business.

In a sermon delivered at the height of World War Two, a period awash in distraction and despair, C.S. Lewis delivered a powerful claim about the cultivation of a deep life: “We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If […]

It’s not just Zoom. Popular video chat platforms have design flaws that exhaust the human mind and body. But there are easy ways to mitigate their effects.

Our lives are loud — and too often it costs money to escape the noise.

A conversation about not letting work rule your life and what companies get right and wrong with flexible work.

Yes to a coffee meeting means saying no to an hour of reading. Yes to a Zoom call means no to getting some exercise. Next time you face a choice, author Ryan Holiday suggests you ask: Which of thes…

A guide to uncommitting gracefully.

This weekend we welcome Stacey Vanek Smith, NPR host of The Indicator and correspondent for Planet Money, who joined us to discuss her recently released book, Machiavelli for Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition, and Win the Workplace. Women have been making strides towards equality for decades, or so we’re often told. They’ve been increasingly entering male-dominated areas of the workforce and consistently surpassing their male peers in grades, university attendance, and degrees. They’ve recently stormed the political arena with a vengeance. But despite all of this, the payoff is, quite literally. not there: the gender pay gap has held steady at about 20% since 2000. And the number of female CEOs for Fortune 500 companies has actually been declining. So why, in the age of #MeToo and #TimesUp, is the glass ceiling still holding strong? And how can we shatter it for once and for all? Stacy Vanek Smith’s advice: ask Machiavelli “with this delicious look at what we have to gain by examining our…

The pandemic prompted a surge in the use of workplace surveillance programs – and they’re not going away any time soon

An irreverent conversation about hope between journalist Wajahat Ali and theologian Kate Bowler. They speak to this moment we’re in through the friendship they found on the edge of life and death that is cancer — Wajahat through his young daughter; and Kate with a stage 4 diagnosis at the age of 35 that she’s chronicled in a beloved memoir, Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I’ve Loved). Their conversation is rich with practical wisdom for facing uncertainty and mortality, losses we did not foresee, and new beginnings we would not have chosen. This is the first in a new series, The Future of Hope — a beautiful array of voices, former guests on this show, having the conversations they want to be hearing in this time.

Contemplate the incredible vastness of space with this visualization of the size of our Milky Way galaxy.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech pic.twitter.com/tS49JhthvH— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) May 9, 2021

Here are the results from last week's polls: - How long does it take to change culture? - How long is our attention span for culture change projects? Check out this video for the data and what you can do about it!

Want your employees to stick around? Flexibility is just the minimum.

I am sure we all agree, times are a bit challenging right now. Many of us are being faced with dilemmas and situations that we never imagined nor rehearsed. How will some companies or teams survive, who will fold, and who will thrive? Survive: you will “make it through”. Your product or team will take some hits but you will keep moving forward, not overly inspired, maybe a bit bruised but still functioning at a mediocre level. Fold: Didn't make the cut. The tension, change, anger, and resentment

People hired during the pandemic finally got a chance to see what their colleagues look like in real life; ‘there’s this weird moment when you lay eyes on someone who you know but you don’t know’

If cultivating a certain kind of workplace culture is important, it shouldn’t be extra work that goes uncompensated, researchers say.