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.
Seven Ways Parents Can Be More Productive During Summer
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.
Five Pro Tips To Beat Procrastination Every Time
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.”
3 Ways To Set Work-Life Boundaries With Your Overbearing Boss
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?
Three Rules For Holding Virtual Meetings That People Don’t Hate
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.
From Better Brainstorms To Staying Focused: June’s Top Leadership Stories
June’s top stories may help you sharpen your focus, show you how to brainstorm better, and get you noticed by job recruiters.
This month, we learned how Googlers brainstorm, what researchers are doing to improve our memory and focus, and a few things job recruiters no longer care that much about.
Wireless Generation: Why Sports Bras And Bralettes Are Disrupting Women’s Underwear
Women across all age groups, but especially millennials, prioritize comfort. Move over, lingerie—and make way for “leisurée.”
The athleisure apparel trend, hardwired into millennials‘ shopping habits, even extends to underwear these day—and it’s having a major effect on the lingerie industry.
Why You Need To Master In-Person Conversations In Your Slack-Driven Office
Stepping away from your daily onslaught of digital communication can be one of the best (and easiest) ways to advance your career.
You already know the numbers. The average professional receives around 304 emails each week, requiring some 28 hours to manage, according to Joseph McCormack, author of the book Brief. We also check our smartphones, he writes, roughly 150 times a day, often expressly to deal with work communication. And this is all not to mention the group messaging apps like Slack that seemingly more of us are immersed in every day.
How And When To Mention Your Vacation Plans During A Job Interview
Yes, you do need to mention you’ve booked that two-week, just not right away.
You’re in a job interview, getting more and more excited about a particular opportunity, and the employer’s really into you, too. But there’s a knot in your stomach. You planned a vacation and it’s quickly approaching. How should you break the news? Is it bad form to bring up your vacation before you’re even offered the job?
