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I sat up and closed Tik Tok on my phone, staring in disbelief at the setting sun outside my window. It had been bright outside when...

Most people believe they want to hear certain phrases from a boss or coworker. “You did a great job!” “You’re so detail-oriented.” “You’re a really hard...

Just over a decade has passed since Christopher Ju left university life to pursue a career as a hip-hop producer. Well actually—that’s not entirely true. He...

Brené Brown says that the opposite of belonging is fitting in. If you belong with your friends, family, or work place, and you feel a deep...

Entrepreneurship has been seriously glamorized. Everywhere you look, people are extolling the values of hustling, grinding, and burning the candle from both ends. If you just...

Back when I was in undergrad at MIT, the quality of my professors’ lectures would absolutely stun me sometimes. The way they could capture and hold...

In an effort to provide a comprehensive understanding of Apple’s recent keynote event––wherein Apple unveiled five new products, flew in a slew of celebrities, and decorated...

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Millennials are frequently portrayed as overly-sensitive, entitled, and touchy. But what comes off as gentle, is, in fact, an iron-clad deep-set desire to touch on “taboo”...

For brands and the people who bash them, Twitter is a conflicting place. Rife as it is with critics like Jon Hendren, “Brands Saying Bae,” and...

The printer’s broken, your coffee’s cold, and the meeting you thought you prepped for totally didn’t go how you wanted. Sometimes we have horrible, awful, no-good...

In today’s world, most industries remain divided along gender lines. Tech, for example, remains widely male-dominated, while teaching and nursing are mostly populated by women. Although...

Businesspeople often have a pop culture blind spot. They think it’s irrelevant at best, frivolous at worst. But that’s a major oversight. Marketing is both art...

Four years ago, Kelsey Witherow woke up in a Barcelona hotel room without any idea how she got there. On the floor, an empty bottle of...

When you have an exceptionally busy schedule, the only constant is change. Your calendar is always being modified and updated. It’s never something you can set...

There are few things I love more than buying people presents. Even when it’s not their birthday or a holiday, I’ll get my friends gifts just...

Early in my career, I worked as a communications associate at Amp Up NYC, a nonprofit dedicated to bringing band music education to New York City...

Charisma is easy to notice but hard to define. Some people just capture our attention—they walk into a room and immediately turn heads. When they speak,...

Three hours. I spent three hours every day commuting to and from my first serious job. I live in the Bay Area, and covering the hour-and-thirty-minute...

I accidentally built the greatest “first business” an entrepreneur could ever have. When my co-founder and I first decided we were going to build a content...

Here’s the unfortunate truth: despite encouraging advancements in female board participation, and despite recent waves of policy initiatives designed to promote gender equality at the executive...

In the business world, success means different things to different people, depending on where you are in the company hierarchy. From an executive’s perspective, it might...

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You’ve probably heard some alarming numbers about how often people change jobs in order to advance their career. The story goes, “In the past, people had...

I was just 21 when I was brought on as an account executive at a local TV station. When I walked into work that first day,...

A few years back, I was giving a sales pitch to a group of potential clients when I noticed one guy doodling while I was talking....

In business, we like to think everything is quantifiable—but that’s not the case. Even something as essential as finding great leaders can’t be done with data...

The most difficult part of building a company is bringing people together as a team. Traditionally, creating a collaborative, supportive team is viewed as something that...

I start and end every day with reading. While I love to read novels, memoirs, historical fiction, and The New York Times, I’ve learned so much...

A few weeks ago during an all-employee meeting, our team was discussing whether or not to hold “lunch and learns.” If you’re unfamiliar with the concept,...

It’s standard practice for companies to promote employees into management roles as a reward for star performance. And it makes sense—you want to endorse those employees...

If you’ve encountered a business hurdle you can’t solve on your own, you’ve probably considered hiring a management consultant. Common wisdom dictates they’ll help you move...

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Long before starting my own design studio, I had a realization. I had been working at one of the most admired brand identity firms in the...

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Everyone likes compliments. No question about it. Salespeople often get into trouble, though, when they veer into the realm of flattery. The problem is that it’s...

If you search “great leadership qualities,” you’ll find no shortage of articles promising to supply the recipe to fame and fortune. But a few generic character...

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Think about the last presentation you saw that really stuck with you. You probably remember being impressed by the speaker’s conviction, their confidence, their knowledge of...

I am one of only 100 Scrum Alliance Certified Enterprise coaches in the entire world. That means, if every country in the world sought out one...