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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.

“IT’S all to do with their brains and bodies and chemicals,” says Sir Anthony Seldon, the master of Wellington College, a posh English boarding school....

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

Who would have thought that reading your old diary entries and listening to sad songs would make you happier?

A look at the research calls some popular assumptions into question.

A new study receives widespread attention, but its conclusions are based on the deaths of only 17 runners.

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

The builders of a $22 billion burrito empire—the founder, his father, his college buddies, key execs, and a couple of pig farmers—open up about how they won the fast-food future. And yes, they dish about McDonald's.

As Google abandons its past, Internet archivists step in to save our collective memory.

The American public and its political leadership will do anything for the military except take it seriously. The result is a chickenhawk nation in which careless spending and strategic folly combine to lure America into endless wars it can’t win.

What happens after you leave the room is most crucial.

Michael Jr. on his big break