Author: Christopher Palma

If you find yourself physically and emotionally exhausted and feeling overwhelmed, you’re not alone. In 2023, 77% of employees in the U.S. experienced stress at work. Pile on the demands of family, friends and romantic relationships, and you’ve got a pressure cooker recipe for mind-body burnout. But creativity may offer

When she made her first appearance on on Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, a popular MTV reality show in the mid-2000s, Kristin Cavallari was only a teenager. Over the course of the decade that followed, she appeared on a few other reality TV shows, authored an autobiography and a

If you were on a beach vacation in Hawaii, where the only sound you heard was the waves gently lapping on the shoreline, what would you be thinking? I can’t wait to get in the water! I wonder if I’ll see a dolphin today? Why am I lying on this

Excerpted from The Journey of Leadership: How CEOs Learn to Lead from the Inside Out by Dana Maor, Hans-Werner Kaas, Kurt Strovink, and Ramesh Srinivasan, in agreement with Portfolio, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright © McKinsey & Company, 2024. It’s an

It’s easy to feel like every job you take needs to somehow advance your career in a meaningful, direct way, but there’s something to be said for the “weird job.”  You know the one. The type of job that leaves you with a thousand good stories and inspires just as

While countless sectors battle economic turbulence, the maritime vacation industry has engineered a stunning revival. The proof lies in the statistics: Maritime leisure bookings during the first quarter of 2024 surpassed 2019 levels by 16%, with the sector setting spending records on nine separate occasions in 2024, according to the

Jessica Spangler, Pharm. D., started making clever money literacy videos during COVID-19’s delta wave in 2021. She was working as a pharmacist in the emergency room of a New England hospital, and during rounds, patients would say to her, “If I make it out of here, I have no idea

Imagine raising $17.8 million with just 13 presentation slides. That’s exactly what Genie AI, a UK-based legal tech startup, achieved in its recent series A funding round. In a competitive industry where startups often rely on lengthy presentations to win over investors, Genie AI’s clear, concise approach stood out—proving that

A new term is bubbling up in corporate America called “conscious unbossing”—a Gen Z phrase that implies younger workers are reluctant to accept a promotion, primarily due to the expected high-stress levels of becoming a boss. The syndrome is evidently impacting young Americans’ professional careers and the companies that need

As a business owner, your to-do list might seem miles long. Add to that list a new government-mandated action item to prioritize by the end of the year. This new requirement—which could cost businesses up to $500 per day for a continuing violation—applies to many businesses in the U.S., but