Every office has one: the person who takes bad news without a flinch, fields a hostile question without heat, and generally seems built from calmer material than the rest of us. We tend to file them under temperament, as...
Ask almost anyone where the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator comes from and you’ll get the same answer: it takes Carl Jung’s theory of personality types and turns it into a proper test.
That framing is everywhere, in corporate training slides, career...
In an unstructured meeting, the person who talks most often begins to look like the person leading it.
A 2020 paper in The Leadership Quarterly tested this pattern with 256 university students placed into 33 temporary groups. Speaking time was...
A real estate agent based out of Vancouver has launched a listings platform that shows more data than the rest.
“Real estate sites all show the same thing,” laments Dan Marusin—a set of photos and some basic listing information.
But there’s...
We hear much less about how these terms came to be and the market forcing functions around how they came to be understood as viable gauges for a successful startup.
You can hear them at any pitch night event...
Australia is being warned against imposing unrealistic conditions on AI data centres or risk turning away investors.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announced plans to introduce legal requirements governing AI use and data centres in July.
He will convene a meeting of...
A card terminal can approve a purchase before the receipt has finished printing. Online, the confirmation page often appears in less than a second.
It feels as though money has moved straight from the customer to the merchant. Usually, it...
The brain-food article is a fixture of the internet. Eat blueberries for memory, oily fish for focus, dark chocolate and walnuts and a fistful of supplements, and your mind will run sharper by lunchtime. The genre is soothing because...
Every few weeks another version of the same post goes round: master these five, or seven, or ten social skills and watch your career take off. The advice is usually a mix of the obvious and the unfalsifiable, but...
There is a particular kind of business dinner where the deal is not the only thing being assessed. Someone orders the second-cheapest wine, or the most expensive. Someone holds a fork like a pen, or cuts everything up first,...
