Map all doors in the home and figure out how to escape. Make a list of items in each room that you can use to defend yourself. Shelves, dishes, night stands, kitchen knives — all can be weapons if you are attacked.
These are among the strateg…
Welcome to Pressing Questions, Fast Company’s mini-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 do I become a bett…
It was early in 1969. I was a twenty-year-old receptionist at the Boston office of Landenburg, Thalmann, an investment banking firm. Fascinated by the stock market, I had memorized the stock symbols of every company listed on the NYSE. During sporadic…
I recently attended a panel on the importance of prioritizing culture as businesses scale. The premise, which I wholeheartedly agree with, was that positive company culture can become a huge driver of your business strategy. Companies run more smoothl…
I was talking with a friend recently who is feeling crushed by her workload and can’t seem to get off the treadmill of 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. days chained to her desk, seemingly in perpetuity.
She asked me what tips I might have for her around time…
As the startup Bobbie officially launched its “European-style” infant formula and started scaling its business—during the pandemic, no less, and on the precipice of a formula shortage—cofounders Sarah Hardy and Laura Modi wondered how they…
Modern business culture tries to motivate people for success. The plot arc of a successful career involves promotions, raises, increases in responsibility, and fancier job titles. The reality is that the path for advancement in most organizations invo…
Modern HR professionals are getting more brand-savvy by the day. Why? In simple terms, HR professionals need to be as effective in branding their organizations in the minds of existing and future employees as marketing professionals are in branding th…
Across the country, the story for families is virtually the same: Child care is unaffordable for many, hard to find for those who can pay, and financially precarious for day care operators and their employees.
The Biden administration and Congress …
Tonight the New York Liberty and the Washington Mystics will face off in the season opener of the WNBA, launching what is set to be a high-stakes season for the league.
The league has been riding a recent groundswell of interest in women’s ba…
