Why Employee Engagement Must Be a Top Priority – Especially Now

In the world of work, engagement isn’t just a buzzword – it’s a bellwether. According to Gallup’s latest global workplace report, employee engagement has fallen for only the second time in more than a decade. For U.S. employees, that drop is the first in 15 years....
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979)

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979)

When Sir Isaac Newton famously conceded, “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants”, he was appealing to an image of progress that had been shared by many other scientists before him, dating back to the twelfth century. Even today it’s quite...

George Boole (1815-1864)

George Boole (1815-1864)

As a branch of the liberal arts, logic often gets short shrift from the general public. Few university students take classes in logic unless they’re required to. Popular culture mostly ignores it, preferring to draw inspiration from broader fields like physics and...

Irma Rombauer (1877-1938)

Irma Rombauer (1877-1938)

If we were to compare our own lives with the lives of people who lived at the turn of the last century in the United States, the first things that would come to our attention would be the many differences that separate us from them. Our early 20th-century counterparts...

Max Factor (1877-1938)

Max Factor (1877-1938)

Among the many fictional characters who rub shoulders with real historical figures in the pages of E.L. Doctorow’s 1975 novel Ragtime, one who stands out as particularly heroic is Tateh, a Latvian Jew who immigrates to the United States in search of a better life for...

Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961)

Jessie Redmon Fauset (1882-1961)

Talent is something that’s easy to recognize retrospectively. We look back and see the great things that certain people have accomplished, and we infer from this that they must have been quite talented. Many people’s careers, however, depend on their ability to do...

Simon Benson (1851-1942)

Simon Benson (1851-1942)

In this series we’ve looked at many entrepreneurs whose hard work resulted in small victories, which then built the groundwork for greater success in the future. However, as we recount these successes we should bear in mind that failure is also a major part of the...