January 2025

U.S. Surgeon General Wants Cancer Warning Added to Alcohol Labels

The U.S. surgeon general has called for tougher reforms on alcohol in a new 22-page advisory, highlighting the link between alcohol consumption and cancer. The report includes multiple health recommendations heading into the new year, including a proposal for new health warning labels on alcohol products, similar to the advisory warnings seen on tobacco products. […]

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How To Detect Emotional Intelligence in Potential New Hires

Emotional intelligence (also known as emotional quotient or EQ) is the idea that being able to understand and manage your own emotions helps guide your thinking and actions and makes you better able to work with and even lead others. The concept was popularized in the 1995 book Emotional Intelligence by psychologist-turned-author Daniel Goleman. In

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What 99% of Marketers Aren’t Doing

Today’s marketing landscape is undergoing a seismic transformation. Technology is advancing at lightning-fast speeds, and consumer behaviors are constantly shifting to accommodate those advancements. One part of that behavior is an increasing lack of trust in advertising and a desire for authenticity. Despite these fundamental changes, Vladimer Botsvadze says that 99% of marketers aren’t adapting

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How DISC Assessment Enhances Team Dynamics

Even if you’ve never taken a DISC assessment yourself, you probably know at least a handful of people who have. Used by more than 1 million people every year, DISC is highly effective at helping organizations improve teamwork, communication and productivity in the workplace.  Organizations around the world, whether governmental agencies, Fortune 500 companies or

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How to Recognize, Regulate and Manage Your Emotions

Humans are profoundly emotional beings—one study found that we experience at least one emotion 90% of the time. But while we’re constantly feeling—everything from joy to gratitude to anger to fear—we don’t always have the tools to recognize, name and regulate those feelings. And that can make it tempting to just squish down or avoid

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4 Ways Your Emails Might Be Stressing Out Your Coworkers (And How to Stop Doing It)

One of my former managers had a horrible habit of setting up last-minute meetings with vague titles like “quick touch base.” Maybe for some, this would be no big deal—but given that our company had a history of frequent layoffs, every one of these invites would send my heart racing. These meetings could turn out

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The Bookworm Benefit: Why Fiction Readers Have Better Emotional Intelligence

David Foster Wallace famously said that serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader “imaginative access to other selves.” In other words, reading fiction allows us to see the world through different lenses and perspectives, a well-known ability of the emotionally intelligent. Yet each new year brings a fresh wave of emotional intelligence reading lists

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