Work Life

MAY 26, 2024

We’re living at a time when the act of memorizing isn’t a requirement to get through day-to-day life. Worried about forgetting someone’s birthday? Just set an automatic reminder. Don’t know the route you’re supposed to take to that restaurant you’ve only driven to once? Enter the destination on your GPS of choice. Forget about remembering your emergency contact’s phone numbers.

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Go Burrows

MAY 26, 2024

Lisa Sprinkles is a Senior Executive Assistant with over 17 years of experience, currently supporting the CEO of Work Dynamics Technology at a global Fortune 500 company. In this episode, Lisa talks about working from home, connecting with assistant colleagues at a global company, and developing your personal and professional brand. LEADERSHIP QUOTE A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way. – John C.

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Work Life

MAY 26, 2024

Last week, Fast Company hosted its annual Most Innovative Companies Summit , bringing together business leaders across sectors to celebrate those championing innovation in their respective industries. But what does it mean to be innovative in 2024? Deborah Golden, U.S. chief innovation officer at Deloitte ; Payal Sahni, chief people experience officer at Pfizer ; and Karsten Temme, cofounder and chief innovation officer at Pivot Bio , took to the stage to explain what innovation means to them.

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Success

MAY 26, 2024

The holy trifecta of Barbie, Beyoncé and Taylor Swift showed the world the power of female spending in 2023. But thanks to social media trends like “girl math,” the stereotype still persists that women are shopaholics whose approach to finances is cutesy at best and wildly ineffective at worst. This is why Vivian Tu, New York Times bestselling author of Rich AF: The Winning Money Mindset That Will Change Your Life and CEO and founder of Your Rich BFF , has her work cut out for her when it comes

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Work Life

MAY 26, 2024

Open most personal finance books, and you will find the usual tips like how to maximize credit card rewards or get a bank fee waived. But to create a life of real financial security, you need to think bigger and broader, according to Scott Galloway, a serial entrepreneur and marketing professor at New York University’s Stern School of Business.

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Work Life

MAY 26, 2024

Welcome to Work Smarte r, Fast Company ‘s newsletter on career, leadership, and productivity advice. You can sign up to receive this newsletter every week here. Ten years ago I reported on research that Americans were only taking about half of their paid time off (and there was a gender gap in that, too). This, even though U.S. workers have been fighting for paid time off (PTO) for more than a century.

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Work Life

MAY 26, 2024

Meg Jay is a developmental clinical psychologist specializing in young adult mental health. Her work has appeared in The New York Times , The Wall Street Journal , Harvard Business Review , and on NPR and BBC. She gave a wildly successful TED Talk, “Why 30 Is Not the New 20.” Jay is on faculty at the University of Virginia and maintains her own private practice.

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