Ritcha Ranjan helped build Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides from the ground up. These are her top five tips on how to use them.
When Google Docs launched back in 2007, it was a scrappy, lightweight document editor. Today, it’s a full-blown workplace powerhouse, with all the features you need to create, collaborate, and share your ideas quickly.
A number of recent startups could actually make a dent in the diversity stats at major tech firms.
In the last two years, diversity practices at major Silicon Valley tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter have been held under a microscope. The big question everyone seems to be asking is “Why are these companies overwhelmingly made up of white men and what can be done to cultivate more diverse talent?”
Overweight people experience many forms of discrimination at work, and much of it is perfectly legal. These people are trying to change it.
Journalist and author Lindy West is done hating her body. As an important step to self-acceptance, she “came out as fat” to friends and coworkers. This is her body. Get used to it.
Generational differences don’t matter; everyone wants meaningful work. Experts explain why the way we think about motivation is all wrong.
Millennials are a demanding bunch, or so it would seem. Deloitte’s 2016 Millennial Survey reports that, if it were up to them, the cohort “would place far greater emphasis than current leaders on ’employee wellbeing’ and ’employee growth and development.’ They would be less focused on ‘personal income/reward’ or ‘short-term financial goals.'” That missing sense of meaning and opportunity appears to be lacking so grievously that, as Deloitte researchers put it, “Millennials have one foot out the door” of their current employers.
Bad ideas in digital technology and e-commerce recur repeatedly, wasting billions. But sometimes they have silver linings.
As an almost official old man of the modern Internet—I founded a web development firm in 1994—I keep seeing ideas I thought were dead and buried break the surface of the digital ocean, fly free for a moment, and then sink back to the bottom.
How a new DNA-collecting technology, by way of skin-smoothing products, got the CIA’s attention.
When the CIA invested in a skin care brand, some hoped the agency was taking on that particular scourge of beauty terrorism: wrinkles.
Scrap your conference call dial-in number. You won’t be needing it anymore.
Companies today operate across multiple time zones as a matter of course. And recent years have seen a boom in collaborative technologies to help them do that. But you may not know it based on the way many companies still conduct meetings. Conducting high-quality virtual conversations still isn’t second nature for many of us. Instead, we’ve simply transferred an analog meeting paradigm into a digital environment. That’s why so many people hate meetings—especially virtual ones.
Your boss’s outsize expectations don’t have to doom you to failure or hold your personal life captive.
No one wants to disappoint his or her boss. Even if you’re not always in agreement with your manager, if you respect him and generally want to do good work, you probably want to avoid doing anything that’ll make him unhappy with you. But what if this person has such high expectations that you think there’s no way you can live up to them? What happens if you start to feel like his growing expectations are setting you up for failure?
Experts take aim at our penchant for putting things off and help us get back on a more productive track.
The pursuit of productivity in the workplace has become its own national pastime. Success is often synonymous with the ability to squeeze the maximum amount of productivity out of each day. As the renowned management consultant Peter Drucker once stated: “Nothing else distinguishes effective executives as much as their tender loving care of time.”
Summer can be a nightmare in time management for working parents, but these tips will help you manage it all.
Summers are meant to be a time to slow down and relax. If you’re a parent, though, summer can be a master challenge in time management. Juggling childcare, summer camps, sports, and family vacation can add up to a lot of stress, and slowing down and relaxing sounds like a daydream.
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