The High Cost of Living in Extremes For many ambitious professionals and high-performing leaders, the daily reality of work is defined by operating at the edge of extremes. A project is either a monumental, historic success or a complete failure. You either commit with relentless, all-consuming inte...

Principal Financial Group’s AI Strategy: A Dual Focus on Technology and Human Skills Principal Financial Group has achieved a significant milestone: more than 90% of its approximately 19,000 employees have completed upskilling in AI fluency. For many organizations, reaching this figure would signal ...

Nine Years Early The term "sandwich generation" once conjured images of Gen Xers in their late forties, juggling the needs of growing children and aging parents. According to new research from Care.com, that picture is badly outdated. The company's survey of 1,000 Americans reveals that the average ...

How Board Experience Helps Advance Your Career Board service offers a range of career advantages that extend far beyond the mission of the organization itself. For professionals looking to build momentum, it provides a unique platform to develop operational know-how, expand professional networks, an...

Technical Professionals Must Master Communication Skills Individuals in these roles were originally hired for their deep technical expertise, yet their long-term success increasingly hinges on their ability to communicate effectively with clients. This presents a significant challenge. As AI takes o...

Introduction: Why These Books Matter Now In a volatile economy where bad news dominates – e.g., retirement is unattainable, AI is dangerous – books that offer real-life success stories and how-to pathways are a helpful counterbalance. The premise is simple: despite the economic gloom, success is pos...

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...