Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Tracy Brower writes about joy, community and the future of work. If you’re struggling at work—to get ahead, feel fulfilled or ...

Home Court Advantage General Manager Cory Powers is well-known for his passion for his work and family. Whatever he does, he gives it his full time and attention, and the end result shows his ...

When my dad, James Murko Sever, came over from Croatia, immigrants came to this country to make a good living. He was 16. He and my mother saved money to buy two farms. He worked third shift in the ...

Economy / Books & the Arts / In Make Your Own Job, Erik Baker shows just how long Americans have scrambled to pile work on ...

Jackie Nance Sons is the CEO and Founder of Native Wildflowers Nursery. She is a master gardener and loves to travel. The importance of hard work over experience in the workplace cannot be overstated.

Undergrads studying modern capitalism are usually assigned Max Weber's famous essay. But our own ideas about the "Protestant work ethic" rest on a misreading of Weber's. Research defining grit as ...

As we venture into 2025, we may be thinking about ways to improve our lives in the new year. New year’s resolutions are easy to make, but also easy to break. But what if there were ways to improve the ...

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No literary form captures the pathologies of contemporary American work quite like the humble—honored, grateful, blessed—LinkedIn post. In the right light, the social network for professionals is a ...

Ann Skeet (@leaderethics) is the senior director of leadership ethics, and Brian Green is director, technology ethics, both at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views ...