Lately, I’ve been working pretty long hours.
Most weeks, I spend my days working from home — thinking, writing, and trying to remember to unmute my Zoom mic before I start talking. By the end of the day, when I finally close my laptop, my…
Keeping personal lives completely separate and private from professional is a fundamental mistake. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses and leaders relied on social events, business lunches, and team dinners for their executives to make personal …
In the morning, I take five Duolingo lessons. I do three French lessons, one Portuguese lesson, and, of late, a Japanese lesson. It’s mostly to test out the product: My teams get reports from me at 6:30 a.m. every day, saying, “You should…
Our lookout season in Montana starts in late June, early July, and runs through September. Before that, I’m prepping to go to the lookout where I’ve lived for close to 25 seasons, and training other lookouts. The rest of the year, I work …
Melinda Briana Epler is the founder and CEO of Change Catalyst. She has over 25 years of experience as a diversity, equity, and inclusion speaker, advisor, and changemaker. Her company specializes in advising tech companies on how to address these cult…
For years, my business coach has been telling me to stop overthinking things, trust my judgment, and keep going.
He’s not wrong.
The funny thing is, I wouldn’t consider myself a deep thinker. Instead, I prefer to think strategically and b…
Business leaders must face the fact that the current labor market could last years, not months. The forces keeping people away from available jobs are complex, long-term and out of business’ control.
Much of the conversation around current lab…
It’s no surprise that employee retention is a critical competitive differentiator. A company’s ability to hold on to its talent—especially in tight hiring markets—has profound ramifications for its ability to operate at a hi…
In the first half of 2021, more than four million Americans quit their jobs in what has been dubbed “the Great Resignation,” and this surge in resignations has put workers in the driver’s seat for the first time in years.
With a re…
Bee Law has called many corners of the United States home. Born in Rochester, and raised and educated in North Carolina, she’s also lived in Atlanta, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Oakland, and Los Angeles. So when the 29-year-old entrepreneur …
