Virtues such as compassion, patience, and self-control may be beneficial not only for others but also for oneself, according to new research my team and I published in the Journal of Personality in December 2025.
Philosophers from Aristotle to al-F…
Remember the Flip video recorder? In 2009, it was a sensation—a dead-simple, pocket-size recorder that let ordinary people capture and share moments without lugging around a camcorder or figuring out complicated settings. Cisco acquired Flip’s m…
Being a night owl can be bad for your heart.That may sound surprising but a large study found people who are more active late at night — when most of the population is winding down or already asleep — have poorer overall heart health than the average …
When Mikala Mahoney was laid off from her marketing job last summer, first she was shocked. Then the anxiety flooded in.
“I realized that over the past few years in my career I had created a false sense of steadiness,” she tells Fast Company. Frie…
These digital tools are providing access to detailed descriptions about physical appearance and surroundings.
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How culture varies inside organizations, and where vulnerabilities tend to cluster.
Kim (not her real name) is a scientist and tenured faculty member at a high-profile university. For years, she steadily moved up the hierarchy, yet no one could point to what she accomplished. She kept transferring from role to role, not because she s…
A new book by a former Deloitte executive turned workplace well-being expert argues exactly that
In her new book Hope Is the Strategy, Jen Fisher, an expert on workplace well-being and human sustainability, makes a clear and timely case that hope i…
You know the ancient proverb: Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.
For leaders, first-generation AI tools are like giving employees fish. Agentic AI, on the other hand, teaches them ho…
When people complain about a lack of work-life balance, they’re typically feeling that they are spending too much time working. They may be spending a lot of combined time at the office and commuting, or just putting in a lot of hours both at work and…
