Fortunately for managers and workers, there’s a lot of research into how to be a more trustworthy leader.

National Leadership Day, which takes place every Feb. 20, offers a chance to reflect on what truly defines leadership – not just strategy or decision-making, but the ability to build trust. In an era of rapid change, when teams look to leaders for stability and direction, trust is the invisible currency that fuels organizational success.

We have all become virtual communicators, and with this comes a new set of rules for interpersonal success.

Andrew Brodsky is a management professor at McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He is also CEO of Ping Group and has received numerous awards, including being chosen by Poets & Quants as one of the Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors of 2023.

The Pokémon card boom is getting bigger, with overall value of cards rising recently—and some individual cards increasing by as much as 150%.

It might sound a little silly that there’s an entire subgenre of influencers who offer investment advice around Pokémon trading cards. Probably because it is a little silly. The idea of some YouTube Jim Cramer breathlessly warning viewers that “Surging Sparks is setting a fire under collectors and investors” is the stuff Saturday Night Live sketches are made of.

Zillow projects that U.S. home prices will rise 1.1% between January 2025 and January 2026.

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The proliferation of third-party payment apps combined with a lower income threshold set by the IRS means you may receive a 1099-K this year. Here’s how it may affect your 2024 tax return.

Somewhere between 25% and 35% of working Americans are gig workers–either as a supplement to their primary income or as their full-time job. And for many gig economy workers, cash apps and marketplaces offer a simple and convenient way to receive payments. Enter the IRS form 1099-K.

Salt and lime can solve many of life’s problems.

While Valentine’s Day and football get the majority of publicity during February, there’s more to this month than love and sports.

The portfolio operations lead has a love-hate relationship with being labeled ‘a creative.’ Creativity for her is as much about solving problems as it is building things from scratch.

Kate Aronowitz tells me she first set out in graphic design because it felt like a discipline that helped her bring order to things. Many years later, she has a love-hate relationship with being labeled “a creative” because the creative process, as she sees it, is not just about art and design—it’s as much about solving problems as it is building things from scratch. She also believes everyone can be creative under the right circumstances. 

Take Google Maps, add a dash of ChatGPT, a pinch of Perplexity, and a hint of Wikipedia—and PamPam is what you get.

I don’t know about you, but I tend to think about my favorite tech tools as being split into two separate saucepans: the “classic” apps we’ve known and relied on for ages and then the newer “AI” apps that have shown up over the past several months to serve some super-specific purpose.

A chief data officer explains why you need to pay attention to the rise of autonomous AI agents.

The relentless hype around AI makes it difficult to separate the signal from the noise. So it’s understandable if you’ve tuned out recent talk about autonomous AI agents. A word of advice: Don’t. The significance of agentic AI may actually exceed the hype.  

I use Background Sounds to improve my focus. Here’s how you can use it, too.

As I write this, the most pleasing sound is washing over me—gentle waves ebbing and flowing onto the shore. Sadly, I’m not actually on some magnificent tropical beach. Instead, the sounds of the sea are being generated by my Mac.

Presidential libraries in the United States today follow the same principle: They become monuments to the former presidents, while giving back to their local communities.

Here in Atlanta, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum has been part of my daily life for years. Parks and trails surrounding the center connect my neighborhood to the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park downtown and everything in between.

Having more choices doesn’t enhance our freedom and well-being on an individual or societal level.

Sophia Rosenfeld is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at the University of Pennsylvania. Her previous books include the award-winning title Common Sense: A Political History. Her writing has appeared in scholarly journals, such as the American Historical Review and the Journal of Modern History, as well as in media publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Nation.

Yes, there’s fear of change, but there are also emerging playbooks where everyone wins.

Clearly, automation will affect labor in 2025. But we maintain that when implemented well, automation elevates our employees and empowers our American workers to make U.S. businesses more competitive on the global stage.

This is our “why.” Now Chang Robotics’ president, Kate McAfoose, will address the “how.” These are remarks she shared at a recent Delaware Valley Goods Movement Task Force quarterly meeting panel.

How AI will ensure the hospital of the future is no hospital

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A simple phrase about egg prices has turned into a viral meme holding Trump accountable for inflation.

Which came first: the up-for-grabs blame over inflation or the meme about it?

The crux of making work fair is that it must be part of every single person’s job.

Siri Chilazi is a senior researcher at the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School. Iris Bohnet is a professor of business and government at Harvard Kennedy School and co-director of the Women and Public Policy Program.

‘It’s wildly unfeasible,’ one Yale economist says of an idea being floated by Elon Musk to claw back large sums of money for American taxpayers.

Who wouldn’t want a “DOGE dividend?” Such an idea is evidently being floated at the highest levels of government.

The Public Environmental Data Partners and others are making sure that the climate science the public depends on is available even after the Trump administration takes it down.

Information on the internet might seem like it’s there forever, but it’s only as permanent as people choose to make it.

Trump’s demands today for American control of Greenland to exploit its resources are shortsighted.

Since Donald Trump regained the presidency, he has coveted Greenland. Trump has insisted that the U.S. will control the island, currently an autonomous territory of Denmark, and if his overtures are rejected, perhaps seize Greenland by force.

A series of viral posts from the official White House X account blur the line between political messaging and internet trolling.

The official White House social media account is under fire for posts that resemble something typically found on the internet forum 4chan.