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Want More Flexible Hours? Here’s How To Get Them Without Asking Your Boss

First, some good news: Job flexibility is more widespread than you think. Now for the bad news: Most employers don’t shout their flex-time offerings from the rooftops, so many employees don’t take...

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This Question Can Make Your To-Do List A Lot More Manageable

Not long ago, one of my team members showed up to our one-on-one check-in with an admirably thorough list. It included what they were working on, the areas where they felt blocked, and a few questions...

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Inside Domino’s Idea To Top Its Pizza Tracker With IFTTT Tech

This week, Domino’s announced that it has now integrated IFTTT into its Pizza Tracker tech, to connect your pizza order to your smart home. So now it can turn on the porch lights when your pizza is out...

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Five Rules To Avoid Bombing Your Entry-Level Job As Soon As You Start It

You did it–you graduated, secured your first job, and are heading into the next chapter of your life. As you embark into the working world, you probably feel nervous and excited about your first day at...

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How Do Teens With Limited Internet Apply To College?

Nowadays, students looking to go to college complete almost the entire application process online: finding schools, sending in application forms and essays, and applying for financial aid, all with the...

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This Play Features Law Enforcement Officers Performing The Words Of...

On the afternoon of April 30, in front of a crowd of over 100 people at the Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, Colorado, Mike Butler, the public safety chief of the nearby town of Longmont stood up and went...

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How PwC’s Tim Ryan Creates Trust-Based Leadership

In his first week as the CEO of PwC, one of the largest professional services firms that provides audit, tax, and advisory services to Fortune 500 companies worldwide, Tim Ryan found himself in Dallas...

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These Kentucky Coal Mines Could Become A Massive Solar Farm

In the mountains near Pikeville, Kentucky, two coal mines may soon become the state’s largest solar farm.“In this part of the country, we’ve gone through a downturn,” says Ryan Johns, development...

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Forget FOMO. In Digital Minimalism, It’s All About The Fear Of Burning Out

“I was constantly checking my smartphone, that Bermuda Triangle of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram,” says Joshua Fields Millburn, cofounder of website The Minimalists.Seven years ago, he, like many of...

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How The ACLU Is Leading The Resistance

Anthony Romero was the first one into the office in lower Manhattan on Wednesday, November 9, 2016. He had spent the prior night at an election party hosted by George Soros, one of the ACLU’s biggest...

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What If Your Credit Score Measured Your Financial Potential–Not Past...

Zaydoon Munir emigrated to the U.S. from Baghdad, Iraq, so he knows the difference between an authoritarian regime and a free country. But, despite loving our free-market economic system, he criticizes...

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These Helpful Kiosks Tell You How Fast To Bike To Make The Next Light

In the Dutch city of Utrecht, local policy favors bicycles over cars. On “bicycle streets,” bikes have priority, and cars are “guests.” For many commuters, it’s possible to ride to work or school via...

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The Old Password May Soon Be Forgotten

In Western history, the concept of the password can be traced as far back as the so-called “shibboleth incident” in the 12th chapter of the biblical Book of Judges. In the chaos of battle between the...

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Four Ways To Tell What Your Voice Is Saying About You

A big multinational company recently sent me a speaking client who “lacked leadership presence.” Looking at her resume, that seemed odd. She was accomplished. She was energetic. She was focused. What...

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Ivanka Trump Plots Her Legacy In “Women Who Work”

Early in Ivanka Trump’s airy new advice book, Women Who Work: Rewriting The Rules For Success, there is a section titled “Begin with the End in Mind.” In these pages, Ivanka advises readers searching...

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Do These 5 Things Right Now To Still Be Employable In A Decade

Think about the workplace 10 years ago: The first iPhone wouldn’t be released until July 2007. There probably wasn’t “an app for that.” Open floor plans hadn’t yet become a privacy-busting phenomenon....

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BlackBerry KeyOne Review: A Last Gasp For The Once-Mighty Physical Keyboard

One of the worst mistakes BlackBerry ever made–and it made many–was failing to recognize the inevitability of obsolescence for physical keyboards. When Apple revealed the iPhone in 2007, BlackBerry...

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At-Home Trunk Shows Are Huge Moneymakers. I Attend One To Find Out Why

On a Wednesday evening in April, I find myself in a well-appointed home in Brookline, a wealthy Boston suburb, sipping wine and eating macarons with a dozen oncologists from the Dana Farber Cancer...

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How I Survived My First Year As A Digital Nomad

“Did I forget anything?” Clothes—check. Laptop—check. Passport—check. Friends . . . emotion washed over me as I zipped up my suitcase and braced myself for another day of red-eyed goodbyes. I was about...

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Kraft Wants Moms To Swear Like Mother Trucking Melonfarmers

If you’re a parent, you’ve done it. Maybe in the car. Maybe in the kitchen. Maybe when you’ve stepped on Lego in the dark for the 3,000th time. Swearing in front of your kids is one of the less...

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