Sometime in the early 1600s, stable owner Thomas Hobson faced a business dilemma: His best horses were the ones most in-demand from his customers. Nothing was surprising about this. However, because the best horses were hired out most often…
About five years ago, our data security company faced a situation no company ever wants to deal with: Some newly released products weren’t selling as well as forecast, and the pressure was on here at Rubrik to do better with other offerings going to m…
Savannah Bananas founder and owner Jesse Cole dreamed as a kid about playing for the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park. This weekend, he will live that dream … sort of. Rather than taking the field in a Red Sox uniform, Cole will strut out in his trademar…
When Rich Roll was in his early forties, he went on a run that changed his life. A successful lawyer, he was aspiring to recover the stamina he had as a Stanford swimmer before his athletic career was halted by addiction.
Roll had already complete…
There’s a new book on longevity that will make you question how prepared the workplace is for the rising population of adults over 60. The book is entitled, The Longevity Imperative: How to Build a Healthier and More Productive Society to Support…
The only thing more fun than jumping out of a perfectly good airplane, according to Eric Gonzalez, is doing it on company time. After the GoPro project manager moved to Oceanside, California, from the Bay Area, his new residence was so close to a skyd…
Recently, as I waited for a delayed flight with zero status updates from the airline, I started thinking about uncertainty. Specifically, why it makes human beings so anxious. Sometimes receiving bad news—that your flight is canceled or that you accid…
Organizations are in a perpetual state of transformation driven by new technologies, leadership shake-ups, and ever-changing market conditions. While this can open up new internal career prospects as roles are restructured, it can also lead to layoffs…
Performance anxiety can truly debilitate the best of us. Whether we experience this in ourselves as leaders, or we see it in our team, navigating any form of anxiety can be difficult. Anxiety is a complex issue and is experienced uniquely by everyone….
As the saying goes, “There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
And on the first Friday of every month, the American public gets a ton of new statistics to peruse. That’s when the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its latest jobs figures….
