Strategy

Whether it’s reducing the hours in a work week or bringing puppies into the office, companies all over the world are prioritizing employees’ happiness because it’s proven to increase productivity. For some workers, their moods are directly related to their managers’ attitudes. Business Insider spoke with Steve Bushnell, certified leadership …

Some of the likely contenders for the 2020 US presidential election are older than most historical candidates. On Wednesday, Axios published an article noting the advanced age of several of the top Democratic candidates for the presidential race. It included a chart showing the age of each major party nominee …

Former position at Facebook: Operations/release engineer Why he left: Kulka worked as a Facebook engineer for five years, and his reason for quitting in 2015 was simple: He wasn’t making enough money. As Kulka quickly learned, even a six-figure salary sometimes isn’t enough to support a family of four in …

Valuing a company is the easy part; creating that value in the first place so you can measure it is a more formidable task. Determining value is more art form than science. True value can only be established at the time of a transaction, where willing buyer tenders payment and …

Let me begin by saying there is nothing better than sleep. And there is nothing worse than the sleep-deprived fog you feel at the office, in a meeting, heck — even on the sofa at the weekend. Science shows that most of us all need an average of seven to …

Joost Minnaar co-founded the Corporate Rebels (corporate-rebels.com) in 2015. Their mission is to make work more fun and they have been featured on the Thinkers50 Radar.  Joost travels to all corners of the world researching progressive organizations, and blogging and speaking about the discoveries they have made. He is co-authoring …

Betty Liu. John Lamparski/Getty Images for Advertising Week New York A lot of successful people have daily routines that they follow religiously, from Apple CEO Tim Cook’s 3:45 a.m. wakeup call to Birchbox CEO Katia Beauchamp’s afternoon meditation sessions. On the other hand, Betty Liu, the executive vice chairman of …

Daniel Chait recently chatted with a friend who was in the throes of job hunting. This person had applied to two companies: Netflix and Facebook. “They’re two of the most sought-after employers in the whole country,” Chait remembers telling his friend. “What do you think the chances are that you’re …

A number of years ago I took on a client who controlled multiple businesses, one of which was in a continuous ten year growth cycle with no end in sight. It wasn’t so much the economy that was generating this unheard of momentum as it was the president/owner’s personal drive …

Alaska’s $65 billion permanent fund and its annual universal cash program paid out to most citizens are the legacy of late Alaskan Gov. Jay Hammond. In a short memoir about his time crafting and fighting for the program, he wrote that his successor, Bill Sheffield, almost abolished the permanent fund …