This week’s Business of Giving features Shannon Farley, co-founder and executive director of Fast Forward. The San Francisco nonprofit has a big mission: to help other nonprofits use technology to ...

Corporate leaders often ascend in their careers by developing a command-and-control style of leadership with a laser focus on clear, specific goals. That approach may spell trouble for society, says ...

After nearly a decade, I am preparing to conclude my role leading the Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation. While transitions offer a natural moment for reflection, I don’t want to look back so much as ...

This psychology-based problem-solving quiz reveals whether you solve problems through logical analysis, gut instinct, emotional intelligence or strategic manipulation.

Many leaders default to quick fixes — but some problems can’t be solved, only led. Here’s how to spot the difference and stop wasting time, energy and trust. Not all problems need quick fixes — some ...

Learn how to slow down, challenge assumptions, and pinpoint what’s really going wrong. Corey Phelps, the dean of Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, says great problem solvers are hard to find.

In this special guest feature, Todd Hinton, VP Engineering and Data Management at RedPoint Global, discusses how big data has conquered the world, but as with any technology, you need to proceed with ...

No matter their rank, teammates want to believe that what they do, day in and day out, matters. Yet meaning can be incredibly hard to find. Every job has its good days and bad, its high points and low ...

Photo Credit: This episode of the Skift Travel Podcast featured a discussion involving RateGain's Bhanu Chopra and Skift CEO Rafat Ali. Skift RateGain’s Bhanu Chopra believes India’s time has come — ...

We’d all like to be innovative, but few people have creativity switches they can turn on at will. (I definitely don’t.) We’re a lot better at convergent thinking, using knowledge and experience to ...