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Welcome to Pressing Questions, Fast Company’s mini-advice column. Every week, deputy editor Kathleen Davis, host of The New Way We Work podcast, will answer the biggest and most pressing workplace questions.
Q: How do I become a bett…
It was early in 1969. I was a twenty-year-old receptionist at the Boston office of Landenburg, Thalmann, an investment banking firm. Fascinated by the stock market, I had memorized the stock symbols of every company listed on the NYSE. During sporadic…
I recently attended a panel on the importance of prioritizing culture as businesses scale. The premise, which I wholeheartedly agree with, was that positive company culture can become a huge driver of your business strategy. Companies run more smoothl…
I was talking with a friend recently who is feeling crushed by her workload and can’t seem to get off the treadmill of 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. days chained to her desk, seemingly in perpetuity.
She asked me what tips I might have for her around time…
As the startup Bobbie officially launched its “European-style” infant formula and started scaling its business—during the pandemic, no less, and on the precipice of a formula shortage—cofounders Sarah Hardy and Laura Modi wondered how they…
Modern business culture tries to motivate people for success. The plot arc of a successful career involves promotions, raises, increases in responsibility, and fancier job titles. The reality is that the path for advancement in most organizations invo…
Modern HR professionals are getting more brand-savvy by the day. Why? In simple terms, HR professionals need to be as effective in branding their organizations in the minds of existing and future employees as marketing professionals are in branding th…
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