What a Gut Feeling Actually Is A gut feeling is not the opposite of science. Your gut is also data, just processed faster and less consciously than a spreadsheet. Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio developed the somatic marker hypothesis. It states that your body remembers how past decisions turned out,...

Executive coaching does not have to take a year. Packing the work into a tighter schedule can produce faster results, and in some cases better ones. The key is shrinking the gap between trying a new behavior and getting corrected. Research Shows Faster Pacing Works In endurance sports, cyclists who ...

Overqualification by the Numbers Overqualification isn’t just a nagging worry for experienced job seekers — it’s a measurable obstacle. According to the Monster Overqualification Report, a survey of 1,001 US adults spread evenly across age groups from 18 to over 65, 40% of job seekers feel that bein...

What Is Strategic Thinking (and What It Isn't)? There is a common misconception about what “being strategic” actually means. Most leaders I coach say they’ve received the advice to “be more strategic” from their manager, but they rarely get any concrete steps or a clear pathway on how to actually ge...

The Quantum Talent Gap: A Growing Crisis Quantum technologies, which include new capabilities in computing, sensing, communications, and networking, have rapidly moved from largely speculative long-term potential toward nearer-term commercial impact. As the industry grows, thousands of new, often hi...

Presence Is About Removing Interference, Not Adding Charisma Cuddy defines presence as a moment-to-moment ability to access and express what we actually think, value, feel and know. That definition matters because it takes presence out of the exclusive province of the naturally charismatic. As she p...

What Is Price Gouging? In November 2025, I wrote here about the affordability crisis and considered whether the unspoken part of that story was job quality. That argument reflects a lot of the current research about work and employment. But recently, I read a book that fills in another piece of the ...

Transferable Skills Trump Industry Experience If you're wondering how to break into luxury, it can feel like entering a closed world, one where industry experience, specialist knowledge and the right network are prerequisites for getting through the door. But moving into luxury does not necessarily ...

What Is a Chief of Staff? A chief of staff (CoS) is a staff member who helps a CEO and other executives manage priorities and coordinate projects. They also work with people in different departments to help ensure that deadlines are met. A CoS can be valuable in helping to prevent and manage crisis ...

Why a Career Change Is a Harder Job Search A career transition, pivot or change is a more complicated type of job search because you are competing with candidates who have direct experience – e.g., they’ve done the role firsthand, they don’t have employment gaps. If you’re changing careers, you are ...

World's Best Employers 2026: The Top 5 At the top of the list this year was tech giant Microsoft, ranking No. 1 for the third year in a row. Delta Air Lines held its No. 2 spot, followed by the e-commerce platform Shopify at No. 3, up from No. 14 in 2025. Costco came in at No. 4, up from No. 12, whi...

The Manager Skills Gap: Why Managers Fall Behind Managers are falling behind faster than the people they lead. According to new research from TalentLMS, 47% of respondents said some of their skills had become obsolete over the past five years. The gap is sharpest year to year: 21% of managers said t...