The Modern Definition of Emotional Intelligence Emotional intelligence (EI) is your ability to recognize and understand emotions in yourself and others, and to use that awareness to manage your behavior and your relationships toward effective and desired outcomes. To understand EI better, let’s talk...

The Algorithm Years Geneva S. Thomas can trace her professional pivot back to a specific morning at Time Inc., where she oversaw digital strategy for the company’s lifestyle collection. Without warning, Google deployed a core algorithm update that reshaped search results overnight. The impact was im...

The Lindsay Clancy Case: A Catalyst for Rethinking Postpartum Support The story of Lindsay Clancy, a Massachusetts mother on trial for the deaths of her three children and an attempted suicide in 2023, has dominated headlines for weeks. Her defense team has argued that she was suffering from postpar...

The Invisible Tax of AI-Generated Work Somewhere in your organization, an employee is submitting work that appears complete but isn't. Elsewhere, another employee is quietly fixing it. In today's workplace, that second person is often a millennial, and their job description almost certainly doesn't ...

The challenges founders only confess to an AI One evening, a founder shared a regret online: "Feeling I needed to be polite sabotaged all my goals and hopes and dreams for the day." But this wasn’t posted publicly, or even sent to a friend. She would never have said it to another human. She was talk...

The Shift Away from Coding as Job Security For years, the standard career advice for ambitious professionals was straightforward: learn to code. The prevailing logic held that possessing engineering and computer science skills made you recession-proof. However, that assurance is fading. In today's m...

The End of the Company-Sponsored Career Net For much of the millennial working experience, the women’s employee resource group (ERG) functioned as a silent partner in career advancement. It was free, it was on-site, and it delivered two essential commodities: colleagues who could vouch for your work...

Dolly Parton’s Legacy of Allyship: Lessons in Advocacy and Action Country music icon Dolly Parton, 80, recently passed away following a short battle with cancer. While her rise to stardom was built on legendary songwriting and performances—producing timeless hits such as “Jolene” and “I Will Always ...

Press Secretary Is a “Greedy Job” The challenges Leavitt describes are not unique to her or to the current administration. Nobel Prize-winning economist Claudia Goldin has popularized the term “greedy jobs” to describe positions that offer high pay but demand long, inflexible, and often unpredictabl...

Rethinking Mental Strength in the Workplace There is a persistent myth about what it means to be strong at work. According to this conventional view, strong people absorb pressure without complaint, push through discomfort, and never show weakness. They keep doubts to themselves, project relentless ...

Rethinking Procrastination: A Solution, Not a Character Flaw Procrastination is commonly dismissed as a personal failing, a sign of weak discipline, poor motivation, or sloppy time management. Jon Acuff, however, offers a fundamentally different perspective. As a New York Times bestselling author, s...

Is It Stress, Burnout Or Dehydration? Feeling overwhelmed by the year ahead? You are far from alone. A 2026 Talker Research survey of 2,000 Americans found that 35% describe the year as “stressful,” nearly one-third call it “challenging,” and 37% say life feels out of control. These feelings are esp...