Career Advice & Insights

It’s easy to start feeling left out and panicked that your friendships may diverge because you are not rushing to get a bun in the oven. Whether it is friends or family, there’s no need to feel guilty about choosing your career over kids. Read More

Think about it: How many times has getting angry, led you to get even? If you’ve done so in the workplace, you’re not alone. Read More

Don’t let your next hiring decision be one that you’ll regret. The strategies that follow will help ensure you make a great hire. Read More

You cannot be liked by everyone, but these secrets can make you more liked by just about everyone (everyone worth being liked by anyway). Read More

Are you a “rising star” at your job or an organization outside of work? To cement your “leader” status, use this email template and let others show what they can do. Read More

According to a recent study, slamming your boss to a colleague, particularly a “passive listener,” can make you angrier, more pessimistic, and a worse employee. Read More

A study from the Journal of Business and Psychology of 20,000 young Americans, interviewed the subjects at home at age 16 and then three more times before they turned 29-years-old. The researchers looked at the correlation between attractiveness and income of the participants based on a five-point scale of physical attractiveness from “very unattractive” to “very attractive.” They found something very interesting when it came to looks and earnings… … Read More

If I see an ad for a vacation rental that says “Your going to Hollywood!” it really bugs me. But my collaborator, Robin Queen, a sociolinguist, who studies how language use varies across social groups, is not annoyed by those errors at all. So we did some research to find out what makes some people more sensitive to writing mistakes than others. Read More

Co-founder of Quiet Revolution and author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Susan Cain works to make introverts around the world feel empowered at home and at the office. She recently sat down with world-leading business thinker Whitney Johnson, author of Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work and host of the Disrupt Yourself Podcast, to discuss why introversion goes hand-in-hand with positive disruption. Read More