On the last Friday in February, Cynthia Pong, a former public defender turned self-described feminist career coach, stood before a group of some 100 women gathered at LinkedIn’s New York headquarters in the Empire State building. She had one hour to help attendees at LinkedIn’s TransformHer conference for women of color learn the art of managing up.
Time’s passing has left many questions unanswered about the mutating virus behind Covid-19 illnesses and deaths.
Last week, instructors at the Capstone College of Nursing, at the University of Alabama, received an alarming memo from their dean. It asked parents of young children to notify the school by early August as to whether they would return to campus in the fall, so that if necessary, “we have time to hire a new faculty member to replace you.”
This spring, a strangely moving commercial aired across New York State.
We all know someone who barrels into tasks without putting much thought into it. Just give them a directive—a household repair job, a homework assignment, a data entry project—and they dive right in.
Ocean Le vividly remembers a day when, as a 10-year-old living in Hawai’i, a family friend was moved into section 8 housing—an apartment subsidized by the US government for low-income individuals or families. The friend was from Vietnam, and unable to understand anything her new landlord was saying to her in English. Le was asked to step in and serve as her translator and advocate.
The Village of Hope, a new model for senior living, is scheduled to open in central Pennsylvania by next summer. It will be populated by elegant, minimalist 3D-printed smart homes called Minka houses, created by noted geriatrician Bill Thomas.
Shirley Weinstock, 91, lives in a studio suite at Jewish Home Family at Rockleigh, a senior residence in New Jersey, not far from Manhattan. On a recent weekday morning, I had the pleasure of meeting her in a Zoom call.
When former American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault left the board of Facebook and was nominated to Berkshire Hathaway’s board, he became the first African American director recruited to Warren Buffett’s iconic conglomerate.
Last week, former health insurance executive Wendell Potter tweeted a confession that went briefly viral before disappearing again into the news cycle ether. But his mea culpa deserves more attention.
In early March, I left my apartment in upper Manhattan and drove to Ontario to visit my elderly parents. For a few days while I was there, the number of reported cases of the novel coronavirus was rising in Toronto at about the same pace as they were in New York City. As the numbers climbed in both cities every day, my grip on my rental car’s steering wheel got a little tighter.
On June 4, the reverend Al Sharpton appeared at the first public memorial for George Floyd and delivered a stirring eulogy, one that served as a bridge linking the personal grief of the slain man’s family with America’s history of racism and violence against Black people.
If you have a job in the current economy, you’re already among the lucky ones, particularly if you’re able to work from home, safe from the worry of exposure to a possibly fatal virus.
Behold a twist in the tale of remote work that no one saw coming: Now that coronavirus lockdowns are ending region-by-region around the world, some people may need to convince their bosses to let them stop working from home.
Here’s an experiment to try the next time you’re on the phone with a colleague or friend: As you’re listening to the other person talk, see if you can guess whether they’re also gesticulating with their hands and how.
Lockdown orders around the world have forced businesses that rely on face-to-face exchanges to think deeply about what they’re selling, if only to figure out how to capture the essence of the experience in a new, virtual form. Why do people go out for a meal, anyway? What are you seeking when you buy a ticket for a magic show? How easily will customers accept remote versions of things they’ve only ever done in person?
On a May 7 conference call with executives, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff sketched out some details about how his global firm plans to reopen its offices.
To stay relevant and solvent, the preppy clothing brand J. Crew has tried on some looks over the past several years, dabbling in studded tartan prints, daytime sequins, faux fur, and radically proportioned wide-legged pants you’d sooner expect from a fast-fashion house.
During the best of times, leaving a senior care home after a visit with a loved one brings exquisite guilt.
The call for the return of drive-in movie theaters has been a popular refrain on social media for obvious reasons. If we’re using our cars for socially-distanced drive-up nose swabbing, wedding parties, and worship, why not bring back the original car-based form of collective entertainment?
The homemade masks that millions are wearing in the US and elsewhere have always been a better-than-nothing solution for preventing the spread of the virus that causes Covid-19.
New Zealand’s prime minister Jacinda Ardern has been called possibly “the most effective leader on the planet,” partly because of her country’s successful managing of the coronavirus pandemic. The nation of 5 million people has so far seen fewer than 1,500 cases of Covid-19 infection and under 20 deaths.
It’s a peculiar paradox of pandemic times: Every day is interminable, yet the hours fly by. Chronemics, or the study of time as a form of communication, can explain why.
As the coronavirus pandemic and its related economic shutdowns ravage businesses across the globe, Eric Ries, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur and influential author of The Lean Startup, has been fielding calls from CEOs who are wondering what to do next.
