Critical thinking is one of the most valuable soft skills employees can develop. It combines experience, observation and analytical thinking to help people evaluate information, solve problems and ...

We’re often encouraged to think outside the box and bring innovative solutions to the table. But many organizations are set ...

Jennifer Smith was a co-worker of mine for years. While that’s not her real name, her story is all too real. She was a high achiever at work. A relentless advocate for the customer. A great ...

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 ...

When one of us, Faith, joined the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), she worked as she’d done at Stanford: she followed the rules on assignments. So, she turned in her “assignment” (an Excel spreadsheet ...

Dr. Vince Molinaro, CEO of Leadership Contract Inc. A NY Times best-selling author. A global expert helping leaders lead strategic shifts. Recently, I was speaking with the chief of staff of an ...

We meet a solutions architect who tells us that his defining characteristic is curiosity, and that for him success is in solving problems with technology, for people. In a recent episode of the First ...

Regardless of how you spent the final days of summer, the return to work can mean coming face to face once again with any sticky problems you pushed aside previously. Now though, they’re looming and ...