How a ‘superboss’ turns employees into bosses
Most of us just want a decent boss. Someone who doesn't take credit for our work. Who doesn't mind if we don't immediately respond to an email sent after 11...
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I quit! Book chronicles epic resignations through history, from William Faulkner to disgruntled flight attendant
After years of staying put in jobs that may have been uninspiring, unrewarding or even flat-out soul-crushing, more Americans are choosing to say sayonara to their current place of work....
Secret to getting more women in leadership positions could be giving fathers more time off
A huge study released Monday reveals yet more unsettling statistics about the low numbers of women in leadership jobs. In the report, the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the...
Have a great idea? Here’s how to make it actually happen
Adam Grant is not your typical business school professor. Just 34, he reached tenure while still in his 20s and finished his Ph.D in less than three years. He writes...
The luxury CEO perk that’s still in good health
Since 2006 - when the Securities and Exchange Commission began requiring companies to disclose more detail about executive compensation - the perks of top managers have been under attack. Under...
Why companies should have snow days, too
In our iPhone-typing, VPN-accessing, laptop-toting work world, a "snow day" just isn't what it used to be. Employers may tell us to stay off the roads. They may urge us...
Davos report projects 5 million jobs will be lost to new technologies by 2020
The World Economic Forum kicked off Tuesday, and the theme of this year's gathering of the world's leaders, celebrities, billionaires and the merely wealthy will be what it calls the...
Zappos says 18 percent of company has left following its radical ‘no bosses’ approach
A little less than a year ago, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh made his employees a deal. If they couldn't get behind the online retailer's radical new management system called "holacracy"...
Why Mark Zuckerberg’s New Year’s challenge to himself just might work
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted on his Facebook page Sunday that his personal goal for 2016 "is to build a simple AI to run my home and help...
The story of modern CEOs and their soaring piles of unused vacation time
As we say goodbye to 2015, many employees are using up their final vacation days of the year. That's especially true for those whose workplaces have a "use it or...