Should You Demand Your Employees Fake Happiness?
A fascinating article on "emotional labor" argues against companies coercing staff into feigning cheerfulness. Is it OK to pay workers to pretend to be happy? Read story
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How Equal Are 'Copreneur' Marriages Really?
Married couples that start a business together are more likely to have a female partner who takes on traditional gender roles according to surprising research. Read story
How to Defuse an Anger Bomb
Is other people's anger holding you back from being successful? A Harvard psychiatrist tells how to deal with rage at work. Read story
Secret to More Profitable Negotiations: Food
New research shows that simply sharing a meal with negotiating partners can lead to better deals. Read story
What Online Dating Can Teach You About Being a Better Boss
It may sound like a fluffy topic, but insights about personality discovered by online dating companies can be helpful to business owners, according to the MI... Read story
6 Essentials of a Successful Pivot
Think your start-up needs a change of direction? Your plan to pivot will go badly awry unless you have these essentials. Read story
Beware Employees Who Boast About Multitasking
Those who claim to be best at multitasking are actually the worst at it, a new study says. Read story
Caution: Even Your Best Employees Have a Dark Side
As you prepare to promote that top performer, make sure you don't accidentally unleash the dark side of her personality. Read story
4 Tips to Stay Married to a Founder
VC Mark Suster's wife offers tips for the significant others of founders to help ensure your relationship survives the start-up. Read story
Are You Too Productive?
There is such a thing as too much productivity and efficiency, say neuroscientists, at least when it crowds all play out of your day. Read story
4 Types of Time-Wasting Bosses
McKinsey outlines popular ways managers misuse their time. Do you recognize yourself in any of these four types? Read story
How to Deal With Addiction at Work
A Harvard Medical School psychiatrist explains how to tell if a team member is slipping towards a substance abuse problem, and what to do about it. Read story
Mission Possible: How to Finally Wake Up Earlier
Not a natural lark? People have probably been hectoring you to get up earlier since high school. Here's how to finally reset your waking time. Read story
Is the Paperless Office Possible?
Research shows how hard it is for offices to entirely kick their paper habit, but many small businesses are coming close, becoming more efficient (and greene... Read story
Best Way to Motivate Your Team for Free
New research out of Wharton suggests a stunningly effective and totally free way to boost employee motivation (and revenue). Read story
Want a Raise? Work at a Small Business
The big boys like Facebook may attract all the media hype, but the strongest wage growth these days is actually at small businesses, a new report claims. Read story
Sorry, It's 1099 Time Again
Thankfully, the rules are pretty much the same this year, but be warned, penalties have gone up. Read story
5 Tips to Pack Like a Travel Pro
You might be a frequent flyer, but flight attendants and travel editors are in the air even more than you, and they have tips to make business travel more pa... Read story
What Your Team Really Hates About Your Leadership Style
A CEO uses social media to get the unvarnished truth about employees' most hated boss behaviors. Are you guilty of their top complaint? Read story
Secret to More Refreshing Weekends
The busiest and most successful people use this strategy for restorative weekends to keep burnout at bay, according to author Laura Vanderkam. Read story
Great Customer Service Is Like Physical Fitness
The CEO of Zendesk explains how developing great customer service resembles keeping that New Year's resolution to start a daily running habit. Read story
Baffled By Big Data? Use 'Small' Data Instead
Warby Parker co-founder Neil Blumenthal recently explained why most start-ups should forget much buzzed about big data and focus on plain, old data instead. Read story
Why Brainstorming Doesn't Spark Innovation
Traditional methods of generating innovative ideas--like brainstorming--are badly out of step with current neuroscience, according to a Columbia professor. Read story
Simple Secret For Happy Employees
Want to boost your employees' well-being? A new study weighs the emotional effects of workday duration, engagement, and time off. The results will surprise you. Read story
2 Joyful New Year's Resolutions
Think your end-of-the-year commitments need to be dour pledges to make worthy improvements in your life or business? Think again, says a happiness researcher. Read story
Give Yourself Permission Not to Be Crazy Busy in 2013
Think there's no way you can limit yourself to a standard 40-hour workweek? The author of a new book says she can show you how. Read story
The Real Outcome of Anxiety
Think anxiety heightens your senses and makes you cautious? Research out of Wharton and Harvard finds quite different results. Read story
You Don't Understand Your To-Do List
Ever wonder why you feel the need to make a to-do list and then just lose or ignore it? Psychologists have an answer that can help you be more productive. Read story
How to Take a Guilt-Free Holiday Break
Stressed about balancing holiday festivities and your responsibilities as a business-owner? Here are tips to beat your anxiety. Read story
Non-Technical Founder? 3 Ways to Be Useful
Can't code? A fellow non-technical founder lays out ways you can add value in the very early days of your start-up. Read story
The Introvert Entrepreneur's Holiday Survival Guide
The party-mania this time of year can be difficult for introverts. Here's how to make the most of the networking opportunities while keeping your sanity intact. Read story
The Right Way to Hire 'Adult Supervision'
This venture capitalist advises founders on how to approach hiring "old people"--a.k.a. experienced executives--for their start-ups. Read story
Fix Your Customer Service
As ModCloth grew as a company, its customer service suffered. Here's how the retro clothing online retailer calmed the chaos with a couple of tech tools. Read story
5 Essential Skills of an Entrepreneur
A new analysis claims to pinpoint the essential qualities that make you an entrepreneur. Read story
2 Best Ways to Divide Your Work Day
Why business owners should divide their time into "in" days and "out" days to supercharge their productivity. Read story
The Return of Writing
A couple of high-profile business leaders insist their teams flex their atrophying writing muscles. Read story
World's Easiest Way to Be Much Healthier: Stand Up
Standing up more is scientifically proven to have huge health benefits, but in our digital world it's not as simple as it sounds. Here's how to make the swit... Read story
How to Hire Techies: Silicon Valley Insiders Explain
Veterans of some of the world's hottest start-ups explain how to recruit the best tech talent to your company. Read story
Sad? Step Away From That Balance Sheet
When you're feeling blue is definitely not the time to make financial decisions about your business, says a new study. Read story
Older Entrepreneurs Get a Bum Rap
One prominent VC has publically announced his preference for young entrepreneurs, but do the facts support this bias for fresh-faced founders? Read story
