Speak to people often enough and you’re bound to slip up. Here’s what to say next to smooth things over.
If your job involves speaking to people, it’s bound to happen: You get called out for something you say. Maybe you’ve misspoken or made an innocent error. Maybe you voiced some provocative views. Maybe you’ve even offended someone.
You should only promote someone after they’ve proved themselves, right? Wrong, says this talent management expert.
You have a low-performing employee and a high-performing employee both up for the same promotion: Who do you promote? It’s no contest, right?
Here’s how to put some of the lessons of your college days to good use in your job search.
“When am I ever going to use this?” You’ve definitely asked yourself this age-old question one too many times at school—much to your professors’ (and parents’) chagrin. From the ins and outs of calculus derivatives to the historical timeline of the War of 1812, it seems like half of what you learn in school has no use once you leave the hallowed halls of university life.
The crisis in Crimea led—however indirectly—to a fruitful collaboration between the Peace Corps and the language-learning app Duolingo.
In early 2014, when Kremlin-backed forces seized Crimea, few employees in the Pittsburgh offices of Duolingo had any inclination it would lead to an exciting new collaboration.
Deutsch chief technology officer Trevor O’Brien on why you should stop worrying about AI, and love how it will improve your job.
There has been much written about the 80/20 rule and how it can be applied to different facets of our lives. At work, 20% of your time should be spent on passion projects. At home, ensure 20% of your time is spent doing the things that make you feel fulfilled. But what if we lived in a world where we could flip that equation, and instead spend 80% of our time on our passion, our creativity, and the things that drive our happiness?
Silicon Valley is home to some crazy apps, but “Uber for dog poop” isn’t one of them. It’s an art project, not a real business.
Last week news of a new “Uber for dog poop” app called Pooper spread across the web. The app’s website, complete with a professional-looking promo video, promises on-demand pickup of your furball’s excrement for a small monthly fee. All you would have to do, the website claimed, is snap a photo of Fido’s filthy business and someone in a Prius would come by and collect it for you.
We all need vacations, but getting back to work when they’re over can be rough. We asked experts how to overcome the urge to stay idle.
Vacations are good for you. Several studies have touted numerous health benefits for the heart and the mind. For the latter, time off can improve cognitive function as well as build self-control and resilience. Bonus: What we experience while on vacation can affect our current state of happiness.
Remote workers can earn fair salary hikes if they know how to leverage their circumstances.
Working from home has plenty of advantages, but visibility isn’t one of them. This can be problematic when leadership is considering who to promote. While it’s not impossible to move up within a company when you’re working remotely, it’s certainly more challenging, says Amanda Augustine, career advice expert for TopResume, a personal branding website for professionals.
CEOs really and truly don’t earn their massive paychecks.
Whatever you think about the level of CEO pay (most Americans think they get too much), you might expect compensation levels to at least match corporate performance. But, according to new research, the exact opposite is true. The best-paid CEOs tend to run the worst-performing companies, and the worst-paid are at the top of the best-performing companies.
Studies show it produces fewer good ideas than when people think on their own. Thankfully, there’s a better way to work in groups.
If you work in an office, your boss has probably forced you into a brainstorming session or two (or 12). Brainstorming, after all, is supposedly a killer way to come up with ideas, and businesses want to take advantage of all that collective creativity. But it turns out that brainstorming is actually a terrible technique—in fact, people generate fewer good ideas when they brainstorm together than when they work alone. Thankfully, there’s a better way: a technique called brainwriting (think brainstorming, but with a pen and paper and less chitchat). And in a new study, researchers tested out variations of this method to understand exactly how to help people come up with their best ideas.
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