China announced Friday that it would expand visa-free entry to nine more countries as it seeks to boost tourism and business travel to help revive a sluggish economy.Starting Nov. 30, travelers from Bulgaria, Romania, Malta, Croatia, Montenegro, North…
You work hard and are proud of what you do. You’re a great performer. You stay late and push your teams to complete the work faster, on time, and without errors. You’ve been going all year pushing and grinding, then you go in for your mont…
Distractions are inevitable, whether it’s your phone pulling you away from work or sleep, the noise in your office, or a home workspace that just isn’t conducive to productivity.
Distractions don’t have to hold us back from getting the…
The vast majority—82%—of middle managers feel invisible and frustrated.
About 18 months ago, my team and I decided to survey more than 1,000 middle managers and found that many hate their jobs. No wonder, no one wants to be a middle manager a…
Whether you are a CEO, frontline manager, or individual contributor, what people will remember most about working with you is how you made them feel.
The strongest feelings I have towards people I’ve worked with come from tough times we faced…
Working with family members in a business setting is a unique experience that brings both opportunities and challenges. Entrepreneurial families—those engaged in creating and managing businesses over generations—often rely on the strength of family ti…
Writing in the Wall Street Journal this week, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy—who were recently tapped to lead the newly minted Department of Government Efficiency—touched on a topic that continues to be a source of friction in workplaces across corpora…
It’s never easy to create a successful business, but it’s a lot harder if you’re Black.
Research shows that Black startup founders face significant, racially specific hurdles, including limited access to entrepreneurship training programs and chall…
If you work in a busy office, you’ve no doubt heard some form of the following conversation over the cubicle walls: “Lunch? Sorry, I won’t have a chance to grab a bite at all. I’m actually completely booked for the next few days.”
The irony is that…
I was disappointed, but not surprised when I opened this year’s Women in the Workplace report from McKinsey & Company and LeanIn.org. Why? Well, just read this:
For every 100 men promoted to manager in 2018, 79 women were promoted. And th…
