Empathy Drives AI Adoption and Employee Confidence New research from Businessolver’s 2026 State of Workplace Empathy AI Special Report reveals a striking connection between workplace culture and employee attitudes toward artificial intelligence. The report, released in August, surveyed more than 1,0...

The Most Common Funding Sources for New Businesses For first-time founders without an established track record, securing startup capital is often the first major hurdle. Launching a business can easily require hundreds of thousands of dollars—or even millions—depending on the industry and the founde...

Target Faces Backlash Over Racist Halloween Costume Imagery Target has come under heavy public scrutiny after a children’s Halloween costume sold on its website was widely condemned for featuring racist imagery. The product listing showed a Black child modeling the costume in a pose that many observ...

Freud on Repression: What He Actually Wrote “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.” This is one of the most frequently quoted lines attributed to Sigmund Freud, yet he never actually wrote it. The saying is a paraphrase of one of the cen...

Nuance Across the Tech Layoffs While some vulnerable positions have certainly been eliminated due to AI, it would be a mistake to attribute the entirety of the recent mass layoffs to the technology’s adoption. To better understand the dynamics at play, the state of California has launched an AI-Unem...

Bill Gates Warns the AI Era Demands a Pause Before the Next Big Bet For decades, Bill Gates has built his career on betting big on technology. From the personal computer revolution to the rise of the internet, his investments and predictions have often shaped the future. However, his latest essay, p...

Why Meditation Is Becoming a Career Essential in 2026 Recent data paints a clear picture of the modern workplace: stress has become a constant companion for a significant portion of the American workforce. A study from Ohio State University indicates that nearly half of all Americans experience stre...

What Is Emotional Labor? The Academic Origins of a Widely Used Phrase Few academic concepts have crossed over into everyday conversation as successfully as “emotional labor.” Today, the term is commonly used to describe almost any form of emotional effort—especially the unwanted kind—that people exe...

Building a Network That Goes Beyond Visibility At last year’s Shoptalk conference in Las Vegas, Danika Berry’s meeting with TikTok was never about chasing viral fame. The discussion centered on practical opportunities for the beauty founders she supports. That single conversation yielded something f...

Why Slowing Down Is the New Leadership Advantage Modern leadership culture worships motion. Calendars fill, screens flash, crises cascade, and executives are rewarded for responding quickly—even when speed narrows judgment, drains imagination and leaves the people around them bracing for the next de...

6 Preps For A Successful Late-Night AI Interview An automated interviewer doesn’t need to coordinate calendars, take a lunch break or go home at 5 p.m. Candidates may be able to answer questions whenever they have uninterrupted time. But convenience creates a new challenge: Just because you can inte...

Emotional Intelligence Impacts Everything We Do Have you ever mentally rehearsed a difficult conversation, only to find yourself saying something entirely different when the moment actually arrived? You knew the calm response. You had practically scripted it. Then stress stepped in, took the microph...