Most of the time, when someone mentions the sport of cricket in America, that’s exactly what they get. Crickets. But maybe you heard about Team USA’s shocking upset win over Pakistan in the Twenty20 Cricket World Cup last Thursday. If the sentence “Ni…
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: How can I draw better boundaries…
It should be clear to anyone whose work touches diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), that the incredible strides we’ve made in the last half-century are fully under attack. The Supreme Court’s decision to strike down race-conscious admissions at Ha…
Gen Z is growing up in the age of AI-powered large language models like ChatGPT and Gemini AI. Now this generation of young workers born between 1997 and 2012 is quickly preparing for a fast-changing job market. Still, one problem plagues this upcomin…
Whether you believe that “feedback is a gift” or that it is the neurological equivalent of hearing footsteps in the dark, as David Rock from the NeuroLeadership Institute once quipped, the fact is that we can’t prosper without it. We can’t improve if …
One feature of working in a physical office is that you bump into colleagues all the time. If you find yourself with a coworker in the break room, on the elevator, or waiting for a meeting to start, it’s natural to have a brief conversation abou…
Over the past four years, Christine Su has expanded AI-powered recommendations on eBay and tackled safety issues at Twitter (now X), taking on knotty ethical concerns over generative AI and free speech on social media platforms.
But there was a tim…
Long before Roberta Kaplan won not one but two verdicts against Donald Trump, it was evident she had the temperament to square off against a garrulous figure like the former president.
“When I was a little kid, I spent a lot of time with my momR…
Many American girls grow up imagining themselves as Disney princesses—but not Lisa Becket, who always imagined herself as part of the behind-the-scenes teams that made the magic possible. This aspiration started at seven years old. Growing up in the f…
Change can be unnerving. But Nancy Mahon sees it as an opportunity for progress. This perspective makes her perhaps the perfect person to take on the recently created role of chief sustainability officer for beauty behemoth Estée Lauder Cos. (ELC) at …
