Making a final financial tally as the Roadmaster Estate Wagon leaves the estate
Read More Gannett offers to buy Tribune Publishing for $388M
The companies put the deal’s total value at about $815 million, which includes about $390 million of outstanding debt
Read More Report: 3 Metro Detroit hospitals gets As, 1 gets a D
Garden City Hospital, Huron Valley Sinai Hospital and University of Michigan Hospitals and Health Centers got top grades
Read More What My Three Years At Netflix Taught Me About Scaling A Startup
Ariel Tseitlin began working on Netflix’s cloud platform in 2011. Here’s what it taught him about culture and high-speed innovation.
I joined Netflix at the beginning of 2011, just as the company was making the transition from operating in the data center to the public cloud. My job was to help build out Netflix’s cloud platform and manage streaming operations. It was an incredible three-year experience seeing the company scale its people, culture, and technology.
How Being A Control Freak Is Wrecking Your Health And Career
People need to control their circumstances to thrive, but overdoing it can be disastrous. Here’s the secret to “internal control.”
In an interesting, albeit cruel, study using rats, researchers placed the animals into three groups. The first set of rats could consume cocaine whenever they wanted to. The rats in the second group were forced to take the drug whenever a “partner rat” in the first group chose to. The rats in the third and final group were the sober ones—no coke for them.
What Middle-Aged Career Reinvention Looks Like
When your career starts to get frustrating, sometimes it’s best to think small.
It was when Bruce Lee was working on the bent-penis project that he started to wonder about the direction of his career. It was 2011. Lee, an adman who happens to share a Kung Fu master’s name, had opted to go freelance in recent years, which had proven lucrative enough. But the projects were frustrating.
Freelancing Won’t Help You Build Wealth, But Doing This Might
Freelancers rarely own a stake in the work that they do, which can make it harder to build wealth over time.
The gig economy is here, it’s real, and it’s global. According to a report by the Freelancers Union, 34% of American workers can now be classified as freelancers. And while that number is a subject of some debate and includes your Uber driver, it encompasses a growing number of white-collar workers as well—people who offer legal, financial, accounting, or design services on demand.
How To Find A Job At A Company With A Conscience
Use this strategy to find a company that fits your career goals and philanthropic ambition.
Believe it or not, despite all of the negative stereotypes you read about millennials—they lack loyalty and want a trophy just for showing up, just to name a few—there is in fact a silver lining: Millennials want work that gives back to the community.
Why Criticism Is So Tough To Swallow (And How To Make It Go Down Easier)
We’re used to giving “praise sandwiches”—a criticism wedged in between two generic compliments—that give our brains indigestion.
A few years ago, I was working hard on a scrappy document that would eventually blossom into my first-ever book. It was still very early in the project, and I was hungry for guidance. So I was delighted that a colleague, who I’ll call Matt, had agreed to review my efforts and offer some constructive feedback. When he did, it went something like this:
Three Common Reactions To Failure That Don’t Help Matters—And One That Does
There are some patterns in the ways we react to changing course. Startup founders in mid-pivot make for great case studies.
Nobody likes having to change directions, backtrack, or start over from scratch—especially when they’re working on something big, challenging, or that they’re passionate about. But life is full of situations that make us change course unexpectedly, and our success often depends on how we face them.
