“Iceberg beliefs”—self-limiting, below-the-surface doubts—could be major obstacles to your success. Here’s how to overcome them.
Sometimes the biggest thing holding you back from greater success is something you might not even be aware of.
Inside Bernie Sanders’s Social Media Machine
From #FeeltheBern to Slack: The man behind Bernie Sanders’s social media agency talks the tools, techniques, and missteps of their campaign.
Ask most any political pundit a year ago who the 2016 Democratic nominee for president would be and virtually all of them would have told you that Hillary Clinton had the lock. But then something unexpected started happening: Bernie Sanders, the relatively unknown Independent senator from Vermont who was 60 to 70 points behind Clinton started attracting massive crowds to his burgeoning campaign.
Why The Gender Wage Gap Might Ruin The Future U.S. Economy
Women earning less over the course of their careers could spell poverty in retirement—and affect the entire U.S. economy.
Just ahead of Equal Pay Day (coming up on April 12) Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.), ranking member of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC) released a new report that takes another hard look at the gender pay gap and its long-term effects on women, their families, and the economy.
John Oliver On Why Your Credit Score Is Probably BS
Those three little numbers are a wildly infallible proxy for credit-worthiness.
John Oliver has finally said what we’re all secretly thinking: Credit reports are a sham.
Why Gender Parity Could Be A Massive Boost To The GDP
Gender equality could mean adding trillions to the economy both in the U.S. and worldwide. Here’s what’s holding us back.
Advancing women’s equality could add $12 trillion to the global GDP by 2025. Here in the U.S., it’s between a $2.1 trillion and $4.3 trillion addition to the country’s GDP in the next decade. If every state and city made progress toward gender parity, they could add at least 5% to their own economies. Half of U.S. states can add more than 10%.
Hiring Managers Reveal The 10 Seemingly Small Things They Judge Candidates On
Small actions like not arriving early and having a good phone voice make a big impression on hiring managers.
It’s interview time for a job you really want. You’re rehearsed and ready—you even researched the company dress code so you’d wear the right outfit. But beyond the obvious marks you need to hit to be a viable job candidate, there are also some lesser-known factors that impress hiring managers and may boost your success in the interview.
How Embracing Awkwardness Can Improve Your Work Relationships
That awkward feeling indicates that something’s up. Tune into it, and you can build trust and intimacy.
Like you, I admire people who are effortlessly smooth in uncomfortable situations. And like you, I can be cool under pressure and warm easily to others—some of the time.
The Future Of Microsoft Office: Many Apps, Many Interfaces, Many Devices
What was once a box of monolithic apps is getting broken down into discrete tasks and reimagined for a less PC-centric age.
More than a quarter of a century ago, Microsoft put a word processor, a spreadsheet, a presentation package, and an email client into one box and called it Microsoft Office. In doing so, it created the productivity suite as the world came to know it. And for all that’s since changed about Office, the devices it runs on, and the competitive landscape, the basic defining idea—lumping together a handful of feature-laden apps, each of which handles a different sweeping category of business tasks—has hardly changed at all.
“Helvetica” Filmmaker’s New Venture Is A VR Documentary Company
The man who brought you Objectified, Helvetica, and Urbanized is launching a company for virtual reality documentaries.
Sonic Wants To Change Its Instagram Look, With The Help Of Chef Jacques La Merde
The Instagram celebrity is helping the brand create this limited, photogenic product run for Coachella.
No one has ever, ever said, “You know what Instagram could use? More food photography.” But while your cousin Bruce has a choice whether or not to post yet another “epic” snap of his latest cheeseburger conquest, when you’re a food brand, your choices of social content are a bit more limited. In order to stay interesting, you need to get creative. To that end, Sonic decided to tailor a specific menu item to this specific social medium.
