At school or in the office, mind wandering is often frowned upon. Students are told to "snap out of it," and employees are nudged back to focus on the task at hand. Yet new research suggests that with ...

Let me ask you something: Have you ever been absolutely stuck on a problem at work? I mean, the kind of stuck where you keep trying the same thing over and over, just hoping for a different result? It ...

What if the secret to standing out at work wasn’t about working harder or even faster, but about thinking differently? In a world where artificial intelligence is becoming as commonplace as email, ...

Imagine Jo: Everyone in Jo's life recognizes her as an outstanding problem solver. She's the type of person who seems capable of almost anything. Jo excels at intuitive problem-solving. Over her life, ...

There’s no shortage of personality types in the workplace, and over my own career, I have encountered many different performers, colleagues, and leaders. At work, there are always problems to be ...

AI is speeding up busywork and making us more productive, but it’s not solving the hardest problems at work—the human ones. AI is speeding up busywork and making us more productive, but it’s not ...

Poornika Ananth does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Burnout at work has been written about from nearly every angle, so why write another article about it? Because the root of the problem keeps evolving. Research consistently shows that companies stuck ...