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Nir Eyal profile

Humility is not the boldest of personality traits, but it’s an important one, studies find. And it’s hard to fake.

Well before the glass ceiling, women run into obstacles to advancement. Evening the odds early in their careers would have a huge impact.

Jonathan Raymond, Pete Mockatis

Are you open about the areas where you want help? Respectful of your mentor’s time and advice? Here are the characteristics that can make you someone whom other people would like to guide, from men…

Our unpredictable and overburdened schedules are taking a dire toll on American society.

The assertiveness movement has taken a male-defined value system and sold it back to us as feminism.

Is it time to rethink the way we assess job applicants?

Adam Grant

No one’s making them try to read 100 books a year.

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.

It’s the quality of time parents spend with their children, not the quantity.

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...

His complaint offers lessons on how to make a point.

Kai Ryssdal

Sonia Bokhari

Professor Aaron Kay found that when we see someone as passionate about their work, we see it as more legitimate to exploit them.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gary Vaynerchuk

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.

Too many of us expect our jobs to give meaning to our lives. There is a better way.

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.