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Intelligence? Some of the most successful executives were average students. Competitiveness? Conference rooms don't need any more locker room-style pep talks. Wiliness? Bosses need to inspire trust.

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you,” wrote the philosopher ...

Troy, N.Y. Margaret Anne Schedel had her notes together and her PowerPoint slides loaded on her laptop for her presentation on teaching artists to write computer code. But shortly before her session ...

January 2017. I was sitting at my desk at a TV network, intending to work, but distracted by all the noise on social media. Videos circulating the web of people at odds with each other — yelling, ...

On June 19, a week and a half ago, Fiona Apple released a brand new album, her first in seven years. The entire album had been available for streaming by NPR Music for a week and a half by then. Three ...

Communication with your team is always a two-way street but the COVID-19 pandemic has made listening to them more important than ever. As much as the pandemic has had a macro-level impact -- on ...