“I honestly don’t know how I became this person.”
This anguished remark came as a newly promoted pharmaceutical executive read through an assessment report detailing scathing feedback from his team and colleagues. Long known as an engaging le…
Employees want to find meaning in their work, but they also want to feel like they mean something to their employer. According to a survey by the career site Indeed, not feeling valued and wanting better relationships with management are two of the to…
In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world’s major economies are trying to engineer higher birth rates.
Policymakers from South Korea, Japan, and Italy, for example, have all adopted so-called pronatalist measures in the belief that do…
My career was never a straight line. There were lots of zig-zags before I founded a multimillion-dollar leadership communications firm, The Humphrey Group. I never had a detailed plan for my future. What guided me was a willingness to quit jobs where …
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and Republican rival Donald Trump are locked in a tight race ahead of the November presidential election and some on Wall Street are picking sides. Here’s what we know about how some of Wall Street…
As a manager, delivering constructive criticism is a necessary and difficult part of the job. It can be emotionally tough to say something to someone else that you know they don’t want to hear. In addition, when talking to younger employees, you may b…
The number of working caregivers and the amount of time they spend on caregiving responsibilities has increased more than 20% in recent years. In 2015, the number was 43.5 million. That increased to 53 million in 2020. And in just three years, Guardia…
David C. Edelman and Mark Abraham, co-authors of PERSONALIZED say we all need to skill up for AI readiness in the workplace, fast. Here’s how.
At Harvard Business School, students and professors alike are discussing AI’s transformative impact…
Although there is an endless list of leadership habits that differentiate high performers from the rest, some of the most wildly celebrated traits in popular articles rarely move the needle according to science. There is often a direct contradiction b…
When it comes to having a boss, there’s good, there’s bad, and then there’s ugly—also known as toxic. Unfortunately, a fair amount of people are being managed by someone in this category. In a survey by employee engagement platform Perceptyx, 24% of e…
