Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Michael Holmes
Women comprise about 47% of the U.S. workforce, yet they make up barely a quarter of all senior executives at large U.S. public companies. Even worse, only about 5% of Standard & Poor’s 500 companies have female CEOs.
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- Written by: Dawn Groves
Modern life can be deeply stressful and confusing because of its complexity. Like a maze with too many directions, life fosters anxiety because it is difficult to know which way to go. This article can help you navigate...
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- Written by: Ellen Peters and Brittany Shoots-Reinhard
Almost a third of American adults don’t have the math skills necessary to make effective decisions about their health and finances.
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- Written by: Shiu-Yik Au
Sexual harassment causes tremendous damage to employees who experience it, leading to higher employee turnover, lower employee productivity, increased absenteeism and increased sick leave costs for companies.
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- Written by: Lynn A. Robinson
I'm a true fan of self-help books. I keep a stack of five or six of them by my bed and read them before going to sleep at night. Following is my distillation of some of these ideas, but with an intuitive spin on them...
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- Written by: David J. Nguyen, Katie N. Smith and Monnica Chan
16.9 million. That’s how many students are going to college at the undergraduate level this fall.
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- Written by: Tom Butler-Bowdon
Success can be described as the courage to let out the potent dreams and potentialities already in us, simply to give them air. Most people don't do this because it seems dangerous. Yet those who have gone this way do see it simply as the normal path of life.
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- Written by: Bill Plotkin, Ph.D.
What does it mean, exactly, to be "lost"? Perhaps this: we don't know how to get from where we are to where we want to be. I may know where I am physically but be lost because I have no idea what I want to do next in my life...
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- Written by: Jared Wadley
Kids can engage in complex economic exchanges involving judgements about trust, according to new research.
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- Written by: Nicholas A. Christakis
When it comes to leadership, we're quite picky on who we let govern us.
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- Written by: Scott F. Latham
Amazon’s announcement that it will invest US$700 million to retrain 100,000 employees – a third of its U.S. workforce – in new technologies is the latest reminder that the much-heralded future of work is well underway.
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- Written by: Michelle L. Casto
If you are laid off or fired, don't do anything at first. Give yourself time to just be. You don't need to immediately start sending out resumes. What you need to do is to take a moment to breathe. Feel your feelings of anger and frustration, but don't fall into the victim mode. View this turn of events as an opportunity to take stock of your life.
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- Written by: Sonia Ricotti
Beliefs are merely an interpretation of the world based on the evidence you have observed and experienced throughout your life. Your beliefs have been programmed into your mind since...
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- Written by: Eileen Workman
At this stage of the money game we’re operating under an “every man for himself” style of play. We’re taught that the end justifies the means, that it’s a dog-eat-dog reality, that might makes right and it’s a winner-take-all kind of world. We’re taught that winners never quit and quitters never win, and that only the strongest and fittest among us survive.
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- Written by: Michael Musker
It’s normal to feel stressed at work from time to time. But for some people, the stress becomes all-consuming, leading to exhaustion, cynicism and hatred towards your job. This is known as burnout.
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- Written by: Nicolas Lévesque
The stilted routines and formalities of the job interview can provoke a particular kind of anxiety in most people seeking employment.
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- Written by: Marcus Robinson
Many of us are confused about the nature of values. Because of this vague understanding of values, it is not surprising to find that even well educated, highly trained, and somewhat wealthy adults often rate themselves moderate to low on the scale of...
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- Written by: Duke University
If someone is passionate about what they do, we see it as more legitimate to exploit them, according to new research.
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- Written by: Massimo Garbuio
The trend of “flat” organisations is catching on at some of the world’s biggest companies. It’s easy to see the appeal when you think of a utopia where everyone in an organisation has a say and can act autonomously.
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- Written by: Kourtney Whitehead
Our work should be a manifestation of who we are and what we believe. Often when life is stagnating, unfulfilling, or inauthentic we see it in multiple areas of our lives. It shows itself in our finances, our relationships, our spiritual lives, and our work.
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- Written by: U. Melbourne
In the future, swarms of robots could help us perform tasks from search and rescue to farming, researchers say.
