Raising happy, healthy, and self-confident children is a much more difficult job than it seems. I’ve studied this topic for many years and have even developed many programs and speeches on this very topic. I found out before I had my first child, and I have 4 children and 5 grandchildren, that there are certain …

If you haven’t heard, universities around the world offering their courses online for free (or at-least partially free). These courses are collectively called as MOOCS or Massive Open Online Courses. In the past six years or so, close to 800 universities have created more than 8,000 of these MOOCs. And I’ve been keeping track of …

How do some people seem to be able to get so much more done in a day than you ever can? Is it some genetic potential you don’t have that these more successful people do? Turns out, not really; it’s just the routines and habits they meticulously follow each day. I spent a month interviewing …

At this point, you probably think you’ve got productivity and procrastination down. You know what helps you produce your best work, and you know when you’re slacking off. But what if you could actually be working against yourself? Some activities that seem productive are actually wasting your time, while things that seem like time-wasters can …

How do you decide which employee deserves a promotion? If you make promotion decisions using seniority as the sole criterion, you’re making a major mistake. (If you run a union shop, maybe you have to — but otherwise promoting based solely on seniority is not just an imperfect solution — it’s a terrible solution. Plus …