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Here are three questions to ask when you are evaluating any piece of work, especially in a team environment. By filtering everything you do through them, you

Youth sports are viewed as a rite of passage in a child’s development. If the clichés that permeate sports broadcasts and locker room speeches are to be believed, sports participation teaches children the value of hard work, builds character, and develops future leaders. While the validity of these claims are questionable, the fact remains that...

The power of saying no

When constant updates on social media show your friends having fun without you, it’s easy to develop a case of FOMO, or “fear of missing out.”

The start-up Slack is changing the way workers communicate, with a group chat app that eschews privacy and automatically archives almost everything.

I kept a diary while writing the book, but it's too painful and embarrassing to share in full.

Three-dimensional printers create inexpensive, striking prosthetics that hint at comic-book superpowers for children who are missing fingers.

So stop it.

I will learn how to keep digging away to find more support for the greater glory of improving adolescent sleep.

Discover what a "portfolio" person is and how you can combine your diverse interests to create a multifaceted career. Jeff Goins explains 3 critical steps.

No form of culture, no matter how self-explanatory, will escape unscathed.

CEO Howard Schultz is encouraging his employees to bring up the hot-button issue — his latest foray into controversial topics.

It's hard to think of a safer time to raise kids. So why are parents always freaking out — or being needlessly policed?

Now that we have hard data on everything, we no longer make decisions from our hearts, guts or principles.

Have you ever been asked how you do it all? Have you ever wondered how you do it all? Here's the answer. The real answer. Find more at http://findingjoy.net ...

Getting past good vs. evil, hero vs. villain, and love vs. hate.

A checklist of questions your peer-coaches should ask.

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

Most productivity methods give you tools to tackle specific projects or to-dos in an organized way. Kaizen, which translates roughly to "good change," is a Japanese productivity philosophy that helps you organize everything you do. In short, it means "constant, continuous improvement," and is a mindset you can apply anywhere, at any job.

Build a relationship before you ask for favors.

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.

When a young girl with a black mother and white father wrote to a teen magazine in 1968 about not fitting in, the Star Trek actor responded at length about how Spock navigated two cultures.

5 Awesome Ways to Win or Lose the Most Valuable Relationships

Today is my son Mason’s 3rd birthday. Of course, today brings back a flood of memories not just from Mason’s birth, but from exactly a year later, when I decided to quit my job and become an entrepreneur. Looking back now, I didn’t have a great plan, but I knew I would figure out a […]

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