It’s an all too familiar story—an employee decides it’s time to take the next step in their career, somewhere else. This kicks off a clandestine operation to find a new job and an Oscar-worthy performance to make everyone think the…
In the past year, you’ve probably looked at your calendar and already felt exhausted by all the meetings before the day has even started.
At first, I flocked to my virtual meetings—I was desperate to see colleagues, catch up, even did Zoo…
At one point or another, we’ve all lost our cool at work. Perhaps you pulled an all-nighter to finish a project, only to feel distressed when it was criticized by a client. Or maybe a coworker failed to pull their weight and dumped their work on…
No one enjoys working for a boss who is constantly checking up on them and micromanaging their every move. We’re motivated by a certain degree of autonomy to achieve goals based on intrinsic talent, not just external feedback and direction. But …
If you could be one age for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Would you choose to be nine years old, absolved of life’s most tedious responsibilities, and instead able to spend your days playing with friends and practicing your times tabl…
It’s the moment we thought we were all waiting for . . . or is it?
We were cautiously optimistic about the end of the pandemic in view of increasing vaccine availability and decreasing case numbers after the peak in January.
Then, whether due to…
Leonardo Da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452, and yet we are still learning from this master of the Renaissance. His résumé—in many ways the first personal marketing document in recorded history—stands the test of time to provid…
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…
Earlier in your career, there will be times at work when you feel you are in the shadow of your manager. For me, it was most salient when I worked on a project sponsored by a senior leader. Although I was doing the work, my manager often became the fac…
The past year of remote work has shown us very little about what the future looks like. That’s because our working model simply switched from one extreme to another. In the pre-pandemic world, many companies operated from one defined norm: Work …
