Author: Christopher Palma

What would your boss say if you packed up your laptop and declared you were heading not just down the street to the coffee shop to work, but to a streetside cafe in Italy… for a year. It’s a new reality that some remote employees are seriously considering, and succeeding

We all want to be popular and well-liked. It’s natural to try to make friends or notice how we fit into a group. But we don’t click with everyone, and many of us have a sense when someone isn’t our biggest fan. In some cases, we can avoid those individuals.

Take your vision of the future, multiply it by a few light-years, and you have a glimpse into the possibilities in the mind and career of Ariel Ekblaw. She’s the founding director of the MIT Space Exploration Initiative and co-founder and CEO of Aurelia Institute, a nonprofit education and research

Pets became a mainstay in home offices during the pandemic, offering a refreshing sense of levity during the business day. When the world switched to remote work, 23 million households in America added a pet to their family, and pets’ roles were elevated to the coworkers we never knew we

Did you know that cold calling has been around for 150 years? It started with the creation of a sales training manual written by John Patterson, founder of the National Cash Register (NCR) Company, in 1887. Originally written for in-person sales calls, the advent of the telephone made it possible

Since the pandemic, the labor landscape has been as turbulent as the economy. From quiet quitting to mass resignations, the shake-ups have kept coming. Recently, however, job turnover rates have settled quite a bit and national unemployment rates are between 3% and 4%. You no longer have to snatch up talent before your

If the number of emails in your inbox just seems to tick up ominously day by day, maybe it’s time to try a new strategy. Laura Mae Martin is the executive productivity advisor at Google and author of Uptime, and her key to a productive inbox is simple: Sort it

Summer is the perfect time to organize a “Winter Education” for the ultimate corporate team- building experience. Imagine if your yearly company retreat was a camping trip—in subzero temperatures. For one Swedish company, it is.  While the prospect of trudging through the snow might not sound like a particularly cozy

You always hear people say that mistakes and failures are opportunities for growth. For Ricardo Jiménez, learning from failure has absolutely proven to be an opportunity, and on a grand scale. In fact, he’s written a book called Crash Course, that details the creation and collapse of his start-up business

Though the rewards of travel are endless, it’s often the time it takes to get to the final destination that can be taxing. As a travel journalist, I’ve spent countless hours in the air and on the ground for layovers, trying to find ways to keep myself busy or squeeze