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Below, Michelle Gielan shares five key insights from her new book, Resilient Optimism: The Science of Sustaining a Positive Mindset in Tough Times . Michelle is a positive psychology researcher and former national CBS News anchor. She was the executive producer of The Happiness Advantage on PBS and a featured professor
For the generation that grew up with devices at their fingertips and social media as an extension of their life, a new shift is pushing Gen Z away from the screen and toward the real world. A 2026 report by Quad and The Harris Poll explored how consumer behavior is changing in favor of physical experiences, finding tha
Below, Ben Meer shares five key insights from his new book, How to Be Good at Life: Simple Systems to Achieve More and Stress Less . Ben is the creator of System Sunday , a weekly newsletter on productivity and life design read by more than 250,000 people. He is an executive coach to founders and CEOs, and previously w
If you’ve been told you lack “executive presence” when you’re delivering a presentation, you know that something about how you’re coming across needs to change. What’s less clear is what, specifically, to work on. A leader I coached, whom I’ll call Michael, had been told he needed stronger executive presence. He commun
The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday slightly upgraded its outlook for the world economy for this year, while warning of growing risks from rising debt , including the financial frenzy around artificial intelligence . The IMF says it expects the global economy to grow at a 3.1% pace this year. That’s up from its
Imagine an artificial intelligence system that has performed reliably for months. Its recommendations are almost always right, and the employee reviewing them has learned that close scrutiny rarely changes the outcome. Then something unusual happens. The AI makes an error or can’t proceed and needs human intervention.
Below, Richard Socher shares five key insights from his new book, The Eureka Machine: Why AI Is the Key to Unlocking a New Era of Scientific Discoveries . Richard is a pioneering AI researcher and serial entrepreneur who spent nearly two decades at the forefront of natural language processing. He is the CEO and cofound
Employees used to go to work and then come home. Now, they commonly go to one job and then to another. It’s called parallel work, and it essentially means taking on multiple jobs as opposed to having a single full-time position. That’s different from just having a side gig in addition to a full-time one; it’s also diff
Artificial intelligence has moved quickly from a novelty on the job to a common workplace tool. Gallup found that 52% of U.S. employees and 68% of professional services workers were using AI by February 2026. Thomson Reuters similarly found in spring 2026 that 74% of professionals use AI several times a week for work.
Media critic Ben Bagdikian warned in 2004 that five corporations had accumulated “more communications power than was exercised by any despot or dictatorship in history.” More than 20 years later, a major media merger is bringing his warning back into focus. Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery in October 2
“Congratulations and condolences.” This is a real message a peer sent when I became CEO of BarkleyOKRP in May 2025. And he wasn’t alone in his sentiment. It seems many regarded this career-defining achievement as the corporate equivalent of buying a boat: Enjoy that first day; the rest will be rough. My future was to b
It’s never been a better—or worse—time to be a tech founder as Hollywood turns its lens on the bizarre and often controversy-filled lives of Silicon Valley leaders. But among the sea of film projects diving deep into the topic of tech CEOs, one appears to be quickly taking the crown. Zuck in a rut First came Aaron Sork
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