Welcome to Pressing Questions, Fast Company’s work-life 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: What can I d…
What do business transformation teams and sports teams have in common? They are more alike than we think. Both teams working toward a common goal and under huge pressure to deliver strong results within tight timeframes can face intense scrutiny when …
In David Brooks’ latest book—How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen—he writes: “In how you see me, I will learn to see myself.” When I asked who illustrated this in his own life, he shared a story about his grandf…
We’re at a crisis of representation in entrepreneurship, and the classic tale of how to “get there” doesn’t apply. All-women founding teams have never raised more than 3% in venture capital funding since at least 2014. We learn about the h…
On Tuesday, Axios revealed it would be laying off 50 employees, or about 10% of the media company’s staff, in the largest round of layoffs since Axios’s founding in 2016. The job cuts were announced in an internal memo from CEO Jim VandeHei cleverly f…
After weeks of anticipation—and fervent campaigning from the pool of contenders—Vice President Kamala Harris has selected her running mate. Tim Walz, the governor of Minnesota who drew attention in recent weeks for deftly deploying the word “weird” to…
Vice President Kamala Harris announced today that she has selected Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz to be her running mate for the 2024 presidential race.
In her announcement on Instagram, Harris was quick to point to Waltz’s first job: working o…
The government of Australia’s most populous state ordered all public employees to work from their offices by default beginning Tuesday and urged stricter limits on remote work, after news outlets provoked a fraught debate about work-from-home habits e…
Michael Bloomberg’s organization Bloomberg Philanthropies is announcing a $600 million gift to the endowments of four historically Black medical schools.Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor and the billionaire founder of Bloomberg LP, will …
In 2018, at the outset of my career as a tech sales professional, I found myself face-to-face with a recruiter, and my first question was, “Why should I work for you?” Some might have seen my inquiry as audacious, but it was genuine. As a …
