Americans have been on a quest to get the most out of every working minute since the nation’s founding, often at the detriment of the people doing the work. [Photos: Bru-nO/Pixabay; Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons; Hermann/Pixabay; Markus Petritz/Unsplash]...

“Like it or not, you are a negotiator…everyone negotiates something every day,” writes Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton in their book on negotiating, Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In. It’s true. Whether we’re representing a...

“When you meet someone, treat them as if they were in serious trouble: … and you will be right more than half the time.”—Henry Eyring Every person you meet, no matter how happy they appear on the outside, is dealing with serious challenges in their life. Life is...

From Apple to Disney to KFC, the shared thread among these companies is massive failure before massive success. [Photo: Flickr user Jeff Wilcox] BY MICHAEL GROTHAUS5 MINUTE READ Throughout my years as a journalist, failure is probably the most frequent subject I’ve...

“The worst leader is he who people despise. A good leader is she who people worship. A great leader is one who makes people say: ‘we ourselves did it.’” — Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching Micromanagement is pervasive — research shows that 79 percent of people have been victims...

Most people have adapted to consuming low-level information on the internet. This is the equivalent of filling your car with water or eating McDonalds every meal. In the documentary film, Super Size Me, 32-year-old Morgan Spurlock goes 30 consecutive days (from...

Imagine you run a tech startup. Cash is tight, but you can’t afford to enter the market with a product that doesn’t live up to its promises. And right now, it’s clear that your engineers aren’t focusing enough on the user-experience issues. Your senior engineer just...

Arevo’s new bikes are made from a thermoplastic embedded with carbon fiber, and can be printed locally, instead of waiting for parts to ship. 1/5 [Photo: Arevo] BY ADELE PETERS2 MINUTE READ A typical bike sold in a U.S. bike shop today was made in China and shipped...

There is this myth that mentors are people you have to know and see. That it is some official designation to seek out. I’ve never met Tyler Cowen, the bestselling author, economist and thinker. We’ve never spoken on the phone. Our longest email conversation might have...

And How It Keeps Us From Being Great at Sales, Leadership, Parenting, and Pretty Much Everything Else One of the things that we as humans are not so good at dealing with is when things don’t go the way we’d like them to. Buddhists have a word for the feeling we get...