June 13, 2026 Your best employees may be the ones ignoring your constant Slack messages BY Samyr Laine I spent years in environments where the stakes of misplaced attention were immediate and visible: helping Jay-Z build enterprises at Roc Nation, then alongside the very talented team at Westbrook. What I watched in those rooms, and later … Continue reading Your best employees may be the ones ignoring your constant Slack messages
May 29, 2026 Why the hardest skills in leadership are the ones we’ve typically called soft BY Marcus Collins In the late 1960s, the U.S. Army made a distinction between the skills necessary for machinery operations and those used in service of people management. Hard skills, as the Army framed it, were the competencies that involved … Continue reading Why the hardest skills in leadership are the ones we’ve typically called soft
What Google’s Spam Playbook Teaches Us About Ranking on Any Search Engine Including AI-Driven Ones Wisam Abdulaziz May 20, 2025 Google maintains a Spam Policies page that it regularly updates. While it’s strongly recommended that all webmasters follow these guidelines, there’s more to it than just compliance. After 22 years in the … Continue reading What Google’s Spam Playbook Teaches Us About Ranking on Any Search Engine Including AI-Driven Ones
March 18, 2025 The shopping revolution no one’s talking about—yet BY Namrata Sandhu In an era where trust is currency and sustainability is a non-negotiable, shoppers are demanding more than just green labels and vague promises. They want proof. Enter digital product passports (DPPs), a game-changing tool that gives consumers instant access to a product’s entire … Continue reading The shopping revolution no one’s talking about—yet
By Lydia Dishman October 01, 2023 Among the trends that have ebbed, flowed, and crashed like waves over our workplaces, one that is shouting to be seen has been there all along. We’re talking about Loud Laborers. You know the type: whether they’re on Zoom or sitting in the next cubicle, they’re keeping a … Continue reading Forget Quiet Quitters, Loud Laborers are the ones you least want to work with
By Adele Peters November 03, 2022 Housing is responsible for a huge chunk of global carbon emissions—nearly a quarter of it, by one estimate. That’s one of the reasons that the new startup Aro Homes exists: Every house it builds will have net-zero energy use. The houses are also designed to cut water use … Continue reading This startup will replace old, rundown homes with ones that generate more energy than they use
Google Adds Filter Chips To Google Contacts Like The Ones In Gmail by Ray Schultz , September 2, 2022 Google is reportedly adding filter chips to Google Contacts, similar to the ones already present in Gmail. But the new search capability is apparently in an A/B test mode, Android Central reports. The new feature in … Continue reading Google Adds Filter Chips To Google Contacts Like The Ones In Gmail
Bear Markets Bring Us Fortunes, and This One’s Almost Over InvestorPlace / 26 Jul 2022 Investors make the biggest profits on Wall Street by buying the dip in bear markets. The biggest gains in bull markets always happen in their earliest stages, when bear markets end, and bull markets begin. In a “normal” year, … Continue reading Bear Markets Bring Us Fortunes, and This One’s Almost Over
Why Purpose-Driven Ads Are Underperforming Mainstream Ones by Joe Mandese @mp_joemandese, June 15, 2022 Like most forms of marketing, the meaning of “performance” often is in the eye of the beholder. And increasingly, that’s about what the beholder’s eyes are actually doing. You know, paying attention. Or not. Consumer attention has always been an attribute … Continue reading Why Purpose-Driven Ads Are Underperforming Mainstream Ones
