You still have to motivate the team members who work remotely, temporarily, or part-time.
You still have to motivate the team members who work remotely, temporarily, or part-time.
How do you manage someone you’ve never met in person? And how do you gain loyalty from somebody who works for you 10 hours a week? How do you make all the parts work together?
Morning Joe co-creator Chris Licht on removing roadblocks, fostering collaboration, and minimizing drama.
Morning Joe co-creator Chris Licht on removing roadblocks, fostering collaboration, and minimizing drama.
After launching MSNBC’s Morning Joe and reinventing CBS This Morning, producer Chris Licht is steering his career in a darker direction—literally. As the new executive in charge of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, Licht has ditched the crack-of-dawn time slot of past gigs for a program that airs when most people are heading off to bed.
Sharing knowledge, expertise, and information can help you be more persuasive, but it isn’t persuasion itself.
Sharing knowledge, expertise, and information can help you be more persuasive, but it isn’t persuasion itself.
I once asked the head of a top ad agency what makes a good ad. “No idea,” he said. “I have creatives for that! My job is to manage the prima donnas.”
It’s normal to ruminate on real or imagined crises, but these strategies can help keep your anxiety down and your productivity up.
It’s normal to ruminate on real or imagined crises, but these strategies can help keep your anxiety down and your productivity up.
You make a mistake at work that you immediately know will have negative consequences. So you think about what went wrong and how you could’ve prevented it, but failed to. Then you mull over the likely short-term fallout, followed by the long-term consequences of the blunder. From there you return to what you did wrong and why you did it in the first place. And the cycle continues.
It’s validating when your intern supervisor wants to hire you, but there are a few reasons to think twice before accepting.
It’s validating when your intern supervisor wants to hire you, but there are a few reasons to think twice before accepting.
You crushed your internship—nice work, by the way!—so much so that the company has offered you a full-time job. For the first time in your life, you have a salary in front of you, benefits, and a fancy professional title to append to your resume. There’s no reason not to take the offer, right?
Your brain emits “theta waves” when you’re falling asleep or waking up. Here’s how to use them for problem-solving.
Your brain emits “theta waves” when you’re falling asleep or waking up. Here’s how to use them for problem-solving.
Eat. Sleep. Solve problems. Repeat. You probably spend a large part of your waking hours tackling challenges, especially when you’re at work.
A decade after leaving the industry, fashion’s power couple is back—and they’ve got a new name.
A decade after leaving the industry, fashion’s power couple is back—and they’ve got a new name.
Health care consumers pay a lot of money for bad design. It’s time for the device and drug companies to stop.
Health care consumers pay a lot of money for bad design. It’s time for the device and drug companies to stop.
A regular glass ketchup bottle is a poorly designed experience. To serve the ketchup you have to hold it at a 45-degree angle, tap it in a special place, insert a knife, and then it splatters not only onto your plate but also onto your lap.
The language-learning company’s new app lets users teach and learn anything from biology to Pokémon. A look at the most popular topics.
The language-learning company’s new app lets users teach and learn anything from biology to Pokémon. A look at the most popular topics.
Since Duolingo launched in 2012, the language-learning company’s eponymous app has become a favorite, winning over 150 million users who enjoy its cheery animations and gamelike mechanics, as well as the ability to compete with friends. But they wanted more. “We saw that there has been . . . a consistency of demand for flashcards,” says Zan Gilani, a marketing associate at Duolingo. The company obliged with Tinycards, an app that applies the company’s philosophy of presenting material in multiple ways to reinforce it—as well as rewarding users with smiley faces and praise when they get something right.
The questions interviewers aren’t allowed to ask are pretty clear-cut, but how to respond when you’re asked them anyway isn’t.
The questions interviewers aren’t allowed to ask are pretty clear-cut, but how to respond when you’re asked them anyway isn’t.
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