Here’s what happened when Ironclad CEO Dan Springer read 80 frontline managers’ reviews of their...

Business 11/17 6:00A Stephanie Mehta

Ironclad CEO Dan Springer believes a better performance review process can elevate a company to another level. Hello and welcome to Modern CEO! I’m Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter...

Why entry-level workers are more hopeful than their bosses right now

Business 11/17 4:55A Susan Vroman

Early-career employees are building confidence through adaptability, community, and self-direction. For years, we’ve treated confidence in the workplace as something that rises with seniority. The longer you’re in the game, the more secure you...

How PepsiCo designed Doritos and Cheetos without the orange dust

Business 11/17 4:45A Grace Snelling

Millions of white T-shirts everywhere just breathed a sigh of relief. It’s an experience almost everyone is familiar with: that moment after you’ve been mindlessly snacking on a bag of Cheetos, when you realize that your fingers are now coated in...

The leadership skills you learn from raising kids

Business 11/17 4:30A Jessica Wilen

Six lessons that cut across both domains. A few days ago, I wrapped a coaching call with a senior executive navigating a complex restructuring—work that demands steadiness in ambiguity, patience when emotions rise, and the discipline to stay...

Ford gets a huge new headquarters for an ambitious new era

Business 11/16 5:00A Nate Berg

Goodbye, silos and desk-bound culture. Hello, 2.1 million square feet of collaborative workspace, design studios, and outdoor courtyards—designed to flex to an industry changing at warp speed. After more than 70 years, the Ford Motor Co. finally...

The hidden reasons behind underperformance

Business 11/15 1:00A Katie Best

Underperformance isn’t just a performance issue: it’s a leadership one. This framework helps managers uncover root causes. Underperformance usually shows up in the guise of missed deadlines, low-quality work, or a bad attitude. This gets spotted...

5 signs you’re working for a performative manager (and how to outsmart them)

Business 11/14 5:00A Eva Chen

Their favorite project is themselves. Every workplace seems to have one. A manager who goes silent for days, then suddenly reappears in the team chat the moment senior leadership checks in. They’ll swoop in to take credit for the work they hadn’t...

From Barbie to Coach: Adobe is reinventing design with AI

Business 11/13 1:00P Victor Dey

Adobe’s agentic AI tools are turbocharging brand creativity, leading to fast, collaborative, and deeply human campaigns. For decades, Adobe’s software tools, including Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign, have been the universal language of...

Most companies are one resignation away from a leadership crisis

Business 11/13 1:00A Tammy Perkins

Real succession planning builds leaders before you need them. If talent is the oxygen of a company, succession planning is the life-support system. Yet too many organizations treat it like an org chart exercise, waiting until someone resigns or...

How legacy brands can lead the next consumer revolution

Business 11/12 7:00P Ben Wintner

Stop designing for customers and start designing with them We’re in an age where AI-fueled rapid prototyping and sleek direct-to-consumer startups seem to capture all the attention. But some of the most profound design disruptions didn’t start in...

This 1 small habit makes you instantly likable, according to a Yale expert

Business 11/12 11:30A Inc.

You can do it in just a few minutes a day. What makes some people  instantly likable ? How can you make people want to be around you, to work with you, and follow your leadership? You may think it comes down to charisma that some people have and...

Exclusive: The most important browser designer of the past 25 years explains how he topped himself...

Business 11/11 6:00A Mark Sullivan

Darin Fisher, who’s worked on everything from Firefox and Chrome to Arc, gives Fast Company the inside story of OpenAI’s Atlas browser’s tabs, side chat, and agent features, plus what’s next. Darin Fisher is a little older than the fresh-faced,...

The leadership skill nobody talks about: Self-editing

Business 11/11 5:00A Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

Ironically, the more leaders can edit themselves, the less pressure their teams will feel to edit themselves. When you think of leaders you admire, you likely imagine them as authentic , at least in the sense of seeming genuine, real, and...

Trump’s $2,000 tariff ‘dividend’ post is likely to fuel the stimulus check rumor mill for months

Business 11/10 9:11A Christopher Zara

Every time a public official suggests sending money to Americans, a deluge of online content designed to induce clicks and raise false hopes follows. With his tariff policies potentially under threat from the Supreme Court, President Trump over...

How work-life balance improved my career

Business 11/9 3:30A Anna Burgess Yang

There’s no badge of honor for 100-hour workweeks. The Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece titled “ Why Work-Life Balance Will Keep You Mediocre .” Certainly a headline designed to draw ire from many readers, myself included.