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03/25/2026

Managers sometimes turn to team-building activities to build connections between colleagues. But which activities and practices would work best for your team? And how can you put them into action most effectively? In this article, the author offers advice and recommendations from three experts. Thei...

03/24/2026

03/11/2026

Now everyone is a "prompt engineer," and you can become one, too, for only $99.99

Once again, the usual suspects are selling you AI FOMO, so who are they?

03/09/2026

Part parody game, part social commentary, this new people-powered chatbot is out to prove that human slop beats AI slop every time.

03/07/2026

As organizations grow, they begin to prioritize process over product. That impedes real innovation. When organizations realize this, they typically respond in three ways: By hiring consultants to do a reorg (that’s “organizational theater”), adopt new processes such as hackathons to spur innov...

03/06/2026

Generational differences are real, but we tend to make too much of them. If the way you are managing the older or younger members of your team is overtly or subliminally signaling that you don’t value them, you will surely see the symptoms of hurt feelings: resistance, disengagement, anger, or ins...

03/06/2026

would you live at Costco?

It's the largest grocer yet to take on this kind of model.

03/06/2026

The ultimate social media management and scheduler for high-impact online businesses

03/06/2026

Get over yourself!

What are we really searching for when we say we want more “meaning” at work, and how does it differ from happiness? Philosophers, scholars, artists, and social psychologists have struggled to come up with an answer to that question for years. According to research by psychologist Roy Baumeister ...