June 01, 2024 How to find the balance between telling it like it is and displaying good people skills More often than not, telling it like it is is not indicative of intelligence. BY Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic If you’re like most people—someone who pays attention to the feelings of others, and tries to act with empathy in … Continue reading How to find the balance between telling it like it is and displaying good people skills
May 10, 2024 Film and TV art crews are facing an unemployment crisis. Here’s what it’s like for workers The Art Directors Guild just suspended its Production Design Initiative program due to high unemployment. For some workers, it confirmed what they already knew. BY Joe Berkowitz The Art Directors Guild (ADG) recently sent an email to … Continue reading Film and TV art crews are facing an unemployment crisis. Here’s what it’s like for workers
May 04, 2024 Why leaders should never act like Elon Musk during a transition These steps can help leaders maintain high employee morale through a major transition, such as a merger or acquisition. BY Brenda Jacobsen It can be difficult to maintain high employee morale throughout a major transition, such as a merger or acquisition. Employees … Continue reading Why leaders should never act like Elon Musk during a transition
April 18, 2024 Like listening to waterfalls and birds on Spotify? Now when you play them you are helping protect them ‘Nature’ is now an official, credited artist on streaming platforms, so when you listen to them, conservation organizations will get the royalties. BY Kristin Toussaint On April 18, a new artist is debuting on … Continue reading Like listening to waterfalls and birds on Spotify? Now when you play them you are helping protect them
By Kathleen Davis February 04, 2024 I’ve worked at Fast Company for more than a decade. My colleague Lydia Dishman, one of the other authors of Work Smarter, has been here for more than 15 years. In a career landscape where many switch jobs every few years, clearly we’ve found something about our jobs that … Continue reading How to find a job you’ll actually like
By Ryan McCarthy February 02, 2024 This year, something unusually dark is happening in an industry that is, by design, quite used to handling bad news. In a strong economy, with unemployment near a 50-year low, virtually every single part of the news business—digital media, local news, TV, print, podcasts, and documentaries—is laying off … Continue reading Why does journalism seem like it’s collapsing? Call it market failure
By Clint Rainey January 30, 2024 Google invented Google Maps. Apple gave us the iPod. Microsoft introduced PowerPoint. In each case, these technologies began elsewhere—as an idea generated by a startup that was perfected by a new owner with greater resources. Corporate America is full of fat piles of cash being dropped to snatch … Continue reading Big Tech companies like Google and Microsoft aren’t as innovative as you think. Here’s why
By Nate Berg The typical Ikea store is a vast, circuitous warehouse chock full of all the imaginable things one might need to fill up a house. Even a disciplined shopper with a precise shopping list can expect to spend a lot of time barreling through the average store’s hundreds of thousands of square … Continue reading Ikea has a plan for the office of the future, and it looks a lot like coworking
By Jandra Sutton January 23, 2024 Quitting a job you love is rarely easy, even if you have another job waiting for you on the other side. On one hand, you might be leaving to accept a new role with a better salary or a new job title, which can make saying goodbye somewhat … Continue reading Here’s what it’s like to quit a job you love—and how to make it easier
By Rodney Williams January 12, 2024 Sam Bankman Fried, former founder and CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was found guilty of wire fraud, conspiracy, and stealing as much as $10 billion in customer money. Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos, is serving an 11-year sentence for fraud and conspiracy over false claims she made to … Continue reading Op-ed: Why do VCs fund founders like Sam Bankman-Fried and Elizabeth Holmes but not Black entrepreneurs?
