The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Bala Sathyanarayanan In ...

Work-life balance has been hailed as the ultimate goal in modern work culture, but let’s be honest—how many people actually achieve it? In a world where technology keeps us connected around the clock ...

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Rishab Jolly, a senior PM at Microsoft, uses AI tools to help him draft documents for work, and to speed up research for his ...

To find a job you actually enjoy, figure out what's making you unhappy and move forward from there, says Tessa West, author of the new book Job Therapy: Finding Work That Works for You. West offers ...

Leadership is tough—and the challenges are only intensifying based on pressure from both outside and inside the organization. All of this can cause leaders to work harder, faster and more often—to ...

I am tired of hearing about the need for work-life balance. To my way of thinking, life is never in “balance.” Sometimes work needs to take top priority, sometimes family does, and sometimes we need ...

Your workplace is a professional environment where you spend a significant portion of your day. While it’s natural to form friendships and engage in casual conversations with colleagues, there’s a ...

Black women, like myself, across the internet are renouncing the push to be everything for everyone and are claiming their “soft life” era. The idea is to choose ease over force, flow instead of ...

Balance is relative — what feels balanced varies from person to person, and the key lies in defining what it means to you. True balance comes from the quality and joy of the time spent rather than the ...

If you’re a people pleaser who just doesn’t know how to say no, join the club. Far too many of us will take on that extra project or stay late at the office to finish a last-minute assignment even ...

We perform better when four core needs are met: sufficient rest, a feeling of value, freedom to focus on priorities and connection to a greater cause. By Tony Schwartz A growing body of research ...