Lila MacLellan

Is there anything as thrillingly curious as ignored wealth?

Should you sign on to Twitter today (Dec. 22), you may be confused to find #TrumpResigns as a trending hashtag, attached (so far) to nearly 30,000 tweets.

David Hogg, the survivor of the Marjorie Stone Douglas high school shooting in Parkland, Florida last February who rose to prominence as a gun-control activist, is headed for Harvard University.

Donald Trump has reportedly discussed firing Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve, out of frustration with his decisions to continue raising interest rates, according to sources who spoke to Bloomberg (paywall).

Can you ever really know what your colleagues think about you? New research suggests there’s a good chance you already do.

Ghosting, if you haven’t heard, is a common event among dating couples: one person goes radio silent without explanation, after exchanging several messages, or even after a few dates.

“Once upon a time, words began to vanish from the language of children. They disappeared so quietly that at first almost no one noticed—fading away like water on a stone.”

The name Susan Desmond-Hellmann may not have the same household recognition as those of her bosses, Bill and Melinda Gates, but that could change. Correction: That should change.

Two of the year’s best productions, one in theaters and the other for the small screen, contain the same warning about overemphasizing youth in your hiring practices: Doing so may increase the odds that unethical behavior will go unchecked.

The new Beige Book from the Federal Reserve Bank contains some millennial slang to describe a rising trend in the workplace: ghosting.

It turns out that a long, happy marriage resembles a slow-moving rom-com, one that plays out over decades.

Reports from Michelle Obama’s book tour promoting her new memoir Becoming (Crown, 2018) have been a salve for the spirit in a tumultuous year. Like the book, her talks in front of massive crowds have managed to be inspiring, without being overly optimistic, out of touch, or contrived. What the New York Times declared of her memoir is also true of her appearances: It’s not all unicorns and rainbows here.

Nearly one in five US workers are debilitated by anxiety or depression, and the rate only climbs when you zoom in on younger generations.

For better or for worse, in sickness and in health, in America your medical coverage is usually tied to your employer. And increasingly, your “wellness” is your company’s business, too. Experts now recognize how lifestyle changes can dramatically reduce disease rates and cut insurance spending, hence the workplace Fitbit challenges, diet nudges, and smoking-cessation programs. 

Tarana Burke, the creator of the #MeToo movement, is feeling, in her words, numb.

If a movie contains at least two female characters who talk to each other, but not about men, it’s said to pass the Bechdel Test, an imperfect measure how well a film portrays women as equals. Though it sounds like it should be easy, few productions pass.

In 1989, Michelle Obama was a 25-year-old junior associate at a prestigious Chicago law firm when she experienced an existential work crisis, one she describes in detail in her captivating new memoir, Becoming (Crown, 2018).

Human beings cannot interact without developing a culture. Wherever we flock together, we wordlessly build codes of conduct, hold each other up to unspoken expectations, and quietly define the emotional life for the group.

In a jargon-filled pressed release, General Motors today (Nov. 26) announced it is laying off 15% of its salaried workers and unallocating—err, closing—five plants in the US and Canada.

The most satisfying, potentially life-changing books about management are inevitably those that are really about our wider culture. Whether at work, or at dinner parties, or home with our families, how do we behave around other people? And how are we complicit in what’s not working?

Laura Mae Martin has been a natural task optimizer since childhood. Making cookies with her sister, she would insist on an assembly line system. Efficiency is her idea of fun.

The CIA has an imperfect history that makes it far from morally irreproachable. But according to British historian Christopher Andrew, the agency and other western intelligence services are more effective than any of their rivals. And Andrew has a theory about why.

When companies begin imposing austerity measures, however subtle, employees notice.

This week, the New York Times published a bombshell piece on Facebook that painted an ugly portrait of the company’s two top executives, CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg.