Parenting makes the heart grow fonder, and the brain grow … smaller? Several studies have revealed that the brain loses volume across the transition to parenthood. But researchers like me are still figuring out what these changes mean for parents.
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They operate in places like an airport, a resort, and a distribution center, tucked away from the public eye but close enough for easy access. They often emit laughter — and the sound of tumbling blocks, bouncing balls, and meandering tricycles.
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During a keynote event, Microsoft also announced more AI-related news, including AI-optimized creative apps and that GPT-4o will be available soon on Copilot.
A conversation with media industry veteran Bonnie Hammer on adapting to industry disruption.
Middle managers have had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad couple of years.
Playing the middleman between senior leadership and frontline supervisors has always been a little miserable, but the role reached a tipping point in the 2020s. Middl…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: You set a big goal. You’ve outlined the steps and used your study of goal-setting to make sure they’re achievable and assigned deadlines to each. On paper, it all looks good.
Then, self-limiting beliefs and …
When one of our clients joined the leadership team of an international financial institution based in Germany, there was a standing item on the executive team’s meeting agenda: burnout cases. That was costly from a time perspective, of course, but tha…
Imagine you’re a leader, and you’ve been tasked with driving a big culture change strategy. The company’s usual ways of doing things aren’t working, and it’s up to you to identify changes that would allow people to do their best work and deliver top-t…
Employees’ personal social media accounts are often open for all to see. Employers may discipline or even terminate an employee whose viewpoints or statements are construed as offensive, harassing, or discriminatory. Whether such actions could land t…
“You know they still use your image on Facebook for recruiting efforts, right? And they have that picture hanging up in the building,” a former colleague said to me. “The one of you at that event. It’s still there.”
At first, I was shocked an…
