Motivational

Startup and small-business owners often have to juggle many roles and wear multiple hats. Among those hats are manager and leader, especially in the earliest days of a company’s history. But these workplace roles, though seemingly similar, have several important differences. It can be tough to know when to manage vs. when to lead, especially […]

Success looks different from person to person. There is no single standard for what success is. For me, one of those standards is watching every single movie in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as soon as it comes out.  That may not be one of your success metrics, but I’m about to inject a little MCU

I’d go to work, then immediately collapse into bed afterward. Then came the debilitating migraines. I’d lived with migraines for much of my life, but these were incessant and unresponsive to my normal medications. Still, I pushed through. I assumed the stress of transitioning to a new job was wearing me down, that maybe I’d

As inflation and interest rates start to rise, you may have heard financial experts warn about a possible economic recession. Talk of a recession might have some people remembering the fear and hardships of the Great Recession in 2008, or even the disruption of the COVID-19 recession in 2020, which lasted only two months.  While

Even if you’re unhappy or unaligned with the current state of your life or career, it can still feel overwhelming to begin thinking about how to make a change.  In this week’s episode of the In the Details podcast, host Karen Allen’s conversation with career coach Amina AITai shows us how we can manage the

How do you grow your circle of influence and become more influential around the colleagues and friends that you currently have in your life right now? Because if we’re honest about it, having influence is big, right? Influence allows you to have more income, it allows you to have more impact; it allows you to

Carlyle has said that a collection of books is a university. What a pity that the thousands of ambitious, energetic people who missed their opportunities for an education at the school age, and feel crippled by their loss, fail to catch the significance of this, fail to realize the tremendous cumulative possibilities of that great

“You are not here merely to make a living,” president Woodrow Wilson once said. “You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.” We

In the past, having an employee wellness program was a nice perk for companies to offer. But as we enter the third year of the pandemic, mental and physical health are stretched thin. Amid the Great Resignation, having a comprehensive employee wellness program has now become essential in attracting and retaining top talent. Now more

It’s time to get honest about your work-love life. Balancing all of life’s demands is difficult when it seems like there aren’t enough hours in the day. You might resort to the phrase “I’m married to my work,” signaling to others that you’ve made a choice—either consciously or subconsciously—that you’re unavailable for emotional connections with