May 03, 2026 Looking to find meaning and purpose in your life? Try these simple steps BY Next Big Idea Club Below, Arthur Brooks shares five key insights from his new book, The Meaning of Your Life: Finding Purpose in an Age of Emptiness. Brooks is a social scientist and professor at Harvard University, where he … Continue reading Looking to find meaning and purpose in your life? Try these simple steps
March 07, 2026 Staying focused in times of personal turmoil BY Art Markman Often when we talk about work-life balance, we focus on ways that work impinges on personal life. Are you taking the time to take care of your physical and mental health? Are you nurturing your personal relationships? Are you giving yourself a … Continue reading Staying focused in times of personal turmoil
January 25, 2026 Why some adults thrive after childhood adversity span>span]:whitespace-nowrap”>Below, Jay Belsky shares five key insights from his new book, The Nature of Nurture: Rethinking Why and How Childhood Adversity Shapes Development. Belsky is emeritus professor of human development at the University of California, Davis. What’s the big idea? Seen through an evolutionary lens, … Continue reading Why some adults thrive after childhood adversity
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Art Of Personal Incentives In The AI Age by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, June 23, 2025 Google began giving merchants a way to lure first-time shoppers to make purchases with them. The company launched 1st Order Promotions, known as New Customer Promotions for Shopping ads. It lets brands offer exclusive discounts to new buyers … Continue reading Art Of Personal Incentives In The AI Age
By Emily Guy Birken November 18, 2023 Employment benefits, from insurance to retirement vehicles, are an important part of most compensation packages, above and beyond a paycheck. In fact, 54.3% of Americans receive health insurance through an employer, and 73% of workers have access to retirement benefits at work. But employers make regular changes to … Continue reading The 5 best moves you can make to optimize your benefits during 2024 open enrollment
By Shalene Gupta November 08, 2023 The best moment of the workday, in all honesty, is probably lunch. (Okay, maybe it’s the second best moment, and the first best is clocking out.) Yet, increasingly, the sacred lunch hour seems to be in danger of going extinct. EzCater, a company that provides corporate food solutions, … Continue reading Skipping your lunch break contributes to workplace burnout and makes you worse at your job
Julie Winkle Giulioni January 11, 2022 Many leaders – even those deeply committed to the growth of others – find themselves cringing as the annual individual development planning (IDP) season approaches. And they’re not alone. Employees frequently feel a similar sense of dread as they prepare to sit down and plot out their goals, learning, … Continue reading Individual Development Planning: From One-on-One to a Team Sport
Achim Nowak August 23, 2021 You need to stop being a doormat, Reverend Mona said to me. I was 34 years old at the time. Artistic Head of an internationally acclaimed theatre company in New York. Hot shit, so I thought. For the first time in my life, I had taken 6 weeks off to … Continue reading The Hidden Language of Personal Power
Achim Nowak August 11, 2021 They told you to never say “I” at a meeting. Use “We.” Always We. Ignore them. They are wrong. They told you that when you say I, I, I it sounds like it’s all about you. Said you would sound like a grandstanding, self-promoting, self-aggrandizing narcissist. A bit of projection, … Continue reading They Told You to Never Say “I.” They Are WRONG.
