What you need to know to take control of your financial future Tanisha A. Sykes When it comes to investing, women and men have different strengths. While women earn less than men, they invest a larger percentage of their paychecks annually—9.0 percent versus 8.6 percent for men, according...

Between hard hats and experiments with dusty robots, Tessa Lau follows a leadership approach that’s human first and foremost By Aditi Malhotra Inside a small warehouse in a nondescript building in Silicon Valley, Tessa Lau and her team of six roboticists at Dusty Robotics have set up shop...

ManpowerGroup’s Christopher Rowland advocates for a workplace defined by openness, self-awareness, and listening Christopher Rowland quotes Nas as easily as Martin Luther King Jr. He believes that the words of a multiplatinum rap artist can be just as influential as the words of a civil rights leader....

One thing that hasn’t changed in the last 20 years: the desire to lose that stubborn 5—or 10—pounds. Here are popular weight loss programs from then and now. 1999 The Atkins Diet: Dr. Atkins’ New Diet Revolution was one of the most popular diet books of 1999. To...

Huge projects can be intimidating. Use these tips to split your next big chore into manageable chunks. Know the difference between a task and a project. A project is an achievement that takes several steps to complete. A task is a single step on the road to...

Dear DW, I’m working on a group project, and one of my colleagues isn’t pulling her weight. We need all hands on deck in order for this project to succeed. What should I do? Signed, Burdened by Too Much Weight Dear Burdened, Even if we don’t have a formal leadership title, we...