Happiness is associated with hard work and retention, yet many managers still believe that it’s not essential to doing a good job.
Engaged employees are more productive, have higher job satisfaction, and are more focused on customers, according to a Gallup study. But what exactly does “engaged” mean?
The legendary urbanist, who wrote her iconic The Death and Life of Great American Cities in my old hood, would have turned 100 today.
I never knew how great I had it until it was gone.
Networking events can be awkward but are still the best way to meet people who can help your career. Here’s how to make them less painful.
“Would you like the opportunity to network with some of the most influential professionals in your field?” asks the latest invite to hit your inbox. Of course you wouldn’t—networking totally sucks, you remind yourself as you scroll down looking for that minuscule “unsubscribe” link.
Operating on a global scale, Angel Labs’ programs and community are increasing the number of female angel and VC investors in 41 countries.
Funding is an essential part of starting and growing a business. The lack of it can stop an idea from becoming a product or service dead in its tracks. Even companies that have raised $1.3 million have failed before their second year, according to the most recent analysis by CB Insights. The fact that venture capital funding got even more scarce at the end of 2015, is a challenge to startups, particularly to those owned by women.
The Metropolitan writer-director talks to Co.Create about how struggling to get films made eventually led him to Jane Austen.
With the films Metropolitan, Barcelona, and The Last Days of Disco, Whit Stillman immortalized the 1% percent milieu of coming-of-age WASPs in the era of Izod’s and Drakkar Noir. In the process, the writer-director became a required cultural icon for aspiring sophisticates—or, U.H.B.s (urban haute bourgeoisie), as Whitman classified his subjects. His autobiographical films were quotable, quippy satires of a class that is typically treated with cartoonish condescension. Stillman chose to bestow on them traces of dignity, slyly defending their nostalgia for a simpler time when old money and a Seven Sisters degree was the equivalent of dropping out of Harvard to found a startup.
After years of boomer hand-wringing about what exactly is wrong with our young people, it’s time to move aside. The millennials are taking over.
If you were born between 1981 and 1997, you’re part of the largest generation now living in the United States. Millennials recently passed baby boomers (born 1946 to 1964) as the biggest generational group, according to Pew Research.
Above all else, show the data.
Think about how much data you sift through on a daily basis. You might search Amazon for a new book, read the latest headlines on nytimes.com, browse Spotify for the best soundtracks, and check your wearable to see if you’ve logged enough steps—and that’s only a tiny sliver of the data that floats around the world each day. The numbers can be mind-boggling.
Because men need book clubs, too.
Men-only books clubs are a hot new trend, the New York Times reports, citing such groups as “The Man Book Club” and “International Ultra Manly Book Club.” You can come up with better names than that!
Yes, iced coffee seems expensive. But if it’s real and good, the price tag may be warranted.
Yes, it’s annoying: You walk into a coffee shop on a hot day, order an iced coffee, and then are dismayed to learn that the transaction neared—if not eclipsed—$6. For just a cup of coffee.
The top financial firms are finally realizing why they should look beyond old white men.
Corporate eyes are opening, or at least that’s what they’re saying.
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