It’s an uncomfortable truth that if you’re waiting for circumstances or other people around you to “make you” be productive, you’ll be waiting a long time. Productivity comes from the inside out. The good news is that…
While the past year hasn’t been easy for anyone, those working from home have uncovered some major benefits.
A lack of a commute offers more time to work out or make dinner with kids or significant others. A more flexible schedule gives us a cha…
“Are you sure you just want a Diet Coke?,” a colleague says to me almost every time we’re at a networking event, motioning toward the bartender or glancing at the glass of wine in their hand. This routine is fairly common to me: Gr…
As companies across the U.S. prepare to reopen their office doors, many may find their employees resistant to losing the flexibility they gained while working from home. This is especially true of working parents, many of whom were forced to take on ad…
Editor’s Note: Each week Maynard Webb, former CEO of LiveOps and the former COO of eBay, will offer candid, practical, and sometimes surprising advice to entrepreneurs and founders. To submit a question, write to Webb at dearfounder@fastcom…
Are you in touch with your inner startup?
Psychologists speak of the power of tapping into an adult’s inner child, which Stephen Diamond describes as “our childlike capacity for innocence, wonder, awe, joy, sensitivity, and playfulness.&#…
When researching this book, one senior executive told us, “The fair decisions are easy. My job is to make the difficult decisions.”
And because leaders have the responsibility of making those difficult decisions, leaders earn trust differ…
Imagine you just crushed a job interview for a position you’re really excited about. You made a connection with the interviewer, and didn’t get tripped up by their tricky questions. Congratulations! But now what? Should you just wait to h…
Companies are making plans to return to the office. Staffing firm LaSalle Network’s Office Re-Entry Index found that most CEOs surveyed believed employees would be back in the office by the fall.
But it won’t be the same old workstations …
The pandemic led many people to reevaluate their careers. A recent study from human resources software and services giant, Ceridian, found that 64% of Americans were actively looking for new jobs or would at least consider leaving their current employe…
