Jessica Chen grew up in a “Quiet Culture” household where deference, humility, harmony, and single-minded hard work were both expected and praised. Worthy as those traits are, they seemed incompatible ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Caroline Castrillon covers career, entrepreneurship and women at work. Many of us use "efficiency" and "productivity" ...

Priya, an engineer in California, was on a deadline. Under pressure, she emailed a younger friend working on the same project to ask for some data that the project needed to get done on time. She and ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Charlotte Gartenberg: Do you have any pet peeves at work? Things your colleagues ...

Cowritten by Charlie Huntington and Tchiki Davis. To understand what shadow work is, we must first define the “shadow.” The Swiss psychologist Carl Jung, who is perhaps Sigmund Freud’s most famous ...

It’s summer, which means lots of new college graduates are starting a “real job” for the first time. By “real job,” I mean one with no defined endpoint, one that hopefully explicitly connects to an ...

Don't work on your time off. Really. But if you must, use these tips to be mindful and courteous so you don't ruin anyone else's fun. I'm an expert in software and work-related issues, and I have been ...