Angie Stocklin: First step takes courage, confidence will follow
It was courage, rather than confidence, that helped us take that first step in building our business.
In the Workplace
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Company holiday parties are back, but with some restraint
More than 57% of companies are planning in-person holiday celebrations this year, according to a survey conducted by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, a hiring firm. That’s a big leap from the past two years.
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Jess Carter: Signal vs. noise: Identifying information that matters
The pressure to respond to every new tool and trend can be intense.
Mark Mayer: What entrepreneurs can learn from nonalcoholic beers
According to Nielsen data, nonalcoholic beer retail sales grew 415% (not a typo) last year, to around $700 million, and continue to surge.
Christina Martin: Four ways to boost your business’s revenue
Here is a road map for determining how you can grow your business sustainably.
Garrett Mintz: You can’t ‘reorg’ without buy-in from the organization
Most people associate reorgs with negative experiences, because they often signify significant changes to the business.
Samantha Julka: In a changing climate, follow the woolly mammoths
I wonder if the parallels are true and whether what we learn from history could be foreshadowing for today.
Steven Young: Manage business, personal debt to find success
Balancing business and personal debt can ensure financial stability, improve cash flow and safeguard your long-term financial well-being.
Barb Cutillo: We all have stress, but bad managers create anxiety
To meet or exceed goals, managers must motivate the talented employees to accomplish the work on time and under budget.
Charlotte Westerhaus-Renfrow: Mastering collaboration requires sense of trust
As a leader or manager, how can you use key elements of collaboration, including trust-building, conflict resolution and psychological safety to help your teams thrive?
Mandy Haskett: The story you’re telling yourself might be the problem
When we can get above the line, we start to see that, while real events present real challenges, none of us is powerless and at the mercy of the world psychologically.
Angie Stocklin: How to trust your team to work from home
Trust between an employer and an employee begins with a clear company mission and strong core values and goals.
Devoted nap-takers find benefits to sleeping on the job
Multiple studies have extolled the benefits of napping, such as enhanced memory and focus.
Jess Carter: Intuition as data: How leaders can harness gut feelings
But our bodies are not just vehicles for our minds. They are finely tuned instruments that send signals to communicate with us.
Mark Mayer: Humor: The fine line between funny and unprofessional
Our senses of humor are one of the most important pieces of our personalities.
Samantha Julka: Organizational leadership is like layers in a cake
Life within an organization is pretty different from violet to red.
Tiffany Sauder: Unlock your best year yet: How to get unstuck in 2025
If we’re not careful, our “planning-self” can set our “has-to-live-in-the-real-world-self” up for failure because we make plans unattached to the context, resources and imperfection of actual life.
Dora Lutz: Finding wisdom in the pause amid the holidays
The thoughts we usually outrun through daily distractions finally catch up with us in these quiet December moments.
Barb Cutillo: Holding others accountable begins with you
As we reflect on another year, managers can radically change their environments by making one simple but challenging adjustment to their approach: consistently holding others accountable.
Mandy Haskett: Cheer up, things get worse! Thoughts on embracing midlife.
Humans vastly underestimate the ways in which we’ll change over the next 10 years.
Jess Carter: How to bridge the gap between data and decisions
Technical experts often get frustrated when business leaders don’t inherently “get it,” while non-technical leaders feel equally frustrated when data experts throw a bunch of numbers at them.