The WHY

18/07/2025

Developing your strategic thinking skills isn’t enough to get you promoted. In order to advance in your career, you need to demonstrate them. Leaders want to know what you think, and they view your worthiness for promotion through the lens of how ready you are to make bigger decisions. Ask yoursel...

18/07/2025

18/07/2025

Today the most promising innovation and business opportunities require collaboration among functions, offices, and organizations. To realize them, companies must break down silos and get people working together across boundaries. But that’s a challenge for many leaders. Employees naturally default...

18/07/2025

18/07/2025

18/07/2025

18/07/2025

When it comes to flexible workplace policies, the key is to actually be “flexible.” It seems counterintuitive, but having rules in place can work against you. That’s why PricewaterhouseCoopers instilled a policy they loosely call “everyday flexibility.” It isn’t something the company man...

10/07/2025

Big tech’s recent embrace of nuclear power highlights a shared strategic challenge between AI firms and energy providers: managing time. As AI-driven data centers send electricity demand soaring, companies like Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon are investing directly in nuclear to ensure a stable, carbo...

10/07/2025

For more than 30 years, the TED conference series has presented enlightening talks that people enjoy watching. In this article, Anderson, TED’s curator, shares five keys to great presentations: Frame your story (figure out where to start and where to end). Plan your delivery (decide whether to mem...

10/07/2025

To be successful, young workers need to be seen as credible before they have had the opportunity to build expertise from the ground up. It’s an incredibly difficult obstacle for younger workers in their first job to overcome. But there are five activities that young professionals can do to jumpsta...

10/07/2025

When it comes to resigning, otherwise astute executives often make fundamental mistakes that cast a cloud over their leaving and damage their reputations. In a national survey we recently conducted of more than 700 senior executives, only 16% reported that they would have done nothing differently th...

27/06/2025

Stretch assignments can accelerate career growth—but new research shows they don’t benefit all employees equally. In a study of early-career engineers, men and White or Asian employees were more likely to see these projects lead to raises or promotions, while women, Black, Latinx, Indigenous, an...