With Covid-19 easing, managers should expect to find many of their employees with a considerably different mindset.

Some workers are burned out after more than a year of unprecedented and often short-staffed assignments. Others are re...

Superheroes are fun to watch in movies, but they are exhausting to work for.

Risking it all to save the day at the last minute, there's no doubt that it can be thrilling and nerve-wracking and emotional. It's also a lousy way to run a...

People screw up at work. We are, after all, human. But leaders only compound the problem when they fail to act on it. Pretending that inappropriate conduct doesn't exist--or hoping the bad actor will see the light, self-correct, and switch to a b...

First was the Great Depression. Then came the Great Recession.

Sixteen months after the first Covid-19 lockdown, it's now time for the Great Resignation.

A record 4 million people quit their jobs in April alone, and more...

Conflict isn't what gets people excited about coming to work every day, that's for sure. And leaders and employees alike try to avoid any way possible. But the best way to avoid conflicts is to understand what gives rise to them in the first plac...

Apologizing is one of the hardest things we have to do, not just as leaders, but as people.

Telling someone you've done them wrong is never easy. When we do finally work up the courage and humility we need to apologize, we tend to mak...

We aren't all making semiconductors, innovating HR with new startups, or running e-commerce shops. But no matter what industry you're in, it's been transformed by technology.

Digital transformations live or die based on a leader's ab...

Though some are portraying Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' July 20 plan to blast off into space as an impulsive publicity stunt, much more is at issue here than just the richest person on Earth moving on to conquer new worlds.

Bezos' B...

After more than a year of Covid-19 lockdowns, the hiring floodgates are about to open -- and managers should be prepared.

Since March 2020, employment has been a seller's market. Very few people have been able to switch jobs. With a p...

Serendipity can have a larger impact on our career success than we want to admit. For better or worse, the biggest moments of our career might be due to chance: when our industry swerves away from our skill set, the executive who mentored us leav...

Traditionally, you could get away with being a bad boss, provided you delivered exceptional results. For better or for worse (definitely worse), temper tantrums, power plays, and expletive-laced shouting were all fair game to "motivate" employees...

Like many of us, I heeded the well-known advice to define my personal values early in my adulthood. After thinking deeply about which values resonated most to me, I ranked them in order of importance, landing on Purpose, Health, Integrity, Loyalt...

It's the promotion you always wanted. You worked hard for it. You earned it.

And now a colleague is undermining you because of it.

Maybe the coworker is jealous you got the job. Maybe they have more experience or qualifica...

Empathy for your team is more important than ever.  

People are juggling work and kids with life during the Covid-19 pandemic, and many of us are buckling under the pressure. An estimated 865,000 women dropped out of the workforc...

About fifteen years ago, I hired a young man for a junior-level sales role. He didn't have much experience, but I saw a promising amount of potential in him.

Over the years, he delivered on that potential by reaching his sales goals q...