It’s called Quitters Day. It’s the day each year (the second Friday in January) by which time most Americans will have quit their New Year’s resolutions. That’s because resolutions don’t work.
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Something is broken: As a society, we’ve never invested more into self-care, however, we’ve also never felt more stressed out.
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I’m here to tell you that you don’t need strippers or three days of isolation in a dark cave to “recharge.”
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Yes, working hard is important. But what happens when we get stuck on bathroom duty in our work lives?
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The belief that productivity equals success is a dangerous myth that is damaging too many careers by threatening our longevity and fulfillment at work. Here’s how to overcome it.
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Your goals are your personal Super Bowl. So let’s start treating them that way.
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There’s an elephant in the room and it’s not the $15 Starbucks card in your office’s white elephant gift exchange. Rather, we need to talk about the "holiday season" at work, specifically how we celebrate Christmas and Hanukkah.
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“I don’t think those sunglasses look good with that outfit. I think you should either wear your normal sunglasses or just not wear sunglasses at all.” Stunned by the fact that my first-grader had just delivered feedback more effectively than many managers I’ve met throughout the years, I stood with my jaw dropped.
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Nothing says goodbye summer and hello fall like the back-to-school season. As children, back to school was a relaunch: a fresh start to our routines, goals and relationships. Yet, for too many of us working professionals, fall has become a no-man’s land when it comes to our goals: a season stuffed between the vacations and relaxation of summer and winter’s flurry of budget meetings, performance reviews and holidays. We've lost this valuable reset as adults. So, as a new school year starts, let's tap back into that powerful relaunch.
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When President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law in June 1963, he promised Americans that the bill now “prohibits the arbitrary discrimination against women in the payment of wages.” But as the bill marked its 59th anniversary in June, American women are still struggling for the bare minimum. For proof, look no further than the recent settlement between U.S. Soccer and its women’s team.
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We are living through an unprecedented unraveling of our rights, norms, and institutions. There’s only one thing we know for sure and that’s this: nothing is off the table and the stakes have never been higher. We each have a part to play in what comes next and we cannot afford for a single one of us to sit this one out on the bench.
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As we honor Women's History Month (rebranded by CHIEF as Women's Future Month), International Women's Day, and Women's Equal Pay Day this March, we need to talk about money: specifically, how we handle negotiations and tough conversations on an unfair playing field. Here are 5 questions to rock your next negotiation.
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We’ve mistaken constantly being available for doing meaningful work—and it’s crushing culture, creativity, and innovation. The Return will not solve the problem of our performative productivity culture. Savvy teams, however, whether remote, hybrid or in-office can ask themselves these four questions to foster a culture that prioritizes producing results over performing productivity:
Working motherhood is messy, so let’s stop pretending it’s “pure bliss.”
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Tell me you want to be more “productive” this year and I’m going to ask you: what are you really hiding out from?
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This past week I had what felt like the opportunity of a lifetime: to hear directly from Adam Grant. Here are my top five takeaways. I hope they’ll move the dial for you as much as they did for me.
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Performative gratitude leaves us happy, as does chasing each “happiness” high. The key is cultivating contentment, here’s now.
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Our words matter, so use them wisely: here are 16 things I forbid you to say at work.
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As fatigue (astoundingly) builds around the working moms’ crisis — perhaps the largest labor and employment crisis we’ve faced as a nation in a century — new research from The Brookings Institution shows us just how urgent this conversation is. Here are my tips for working moms and their employers, alike.
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As you dream up your own workcation — or simply get workcation-curious — here are few lessons our family learned this summer (including some things we totally bungled) to make yours a blast.
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