by Kevin Sheridan  http://kevinsheridanllc.com   Recent headlines have been littered with numerous stories of sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and rape. Harvey Weinstein. Google. Uber. Silicon Valley. SoFi. Bill O’Reilly and Roger Ailes of Fox News. Three hundred and ten accusations against filmmaker James Toback. Mark Halperin. Taylor Swift allegedly being groped by radio host David Mueller. […]

From History.com Halloween, one of the world’s oldest holidays, is still celebrated today in a number of countries around the globe. In Mexico and other Latin American countries, Día de los Muertos—the Day of the Dead—honors deceased loved ones and ancestors. In countries such as Ireland, Canada and the United States, adults and children alike […]

By: Zlati Meyer, USA TODAY Companies from KFC to Coca-Cola are peddling items that have little to do with the noshes they’re known for. Swag like this not only caters to superfans, but the more extreme merchandise may garner media attention, which means more buzz and ultimately food sales You could use that $1 bill toward a small […]

Shep Hyken , CONTRIBUTOR, FORBES.COM Each year, new data comes out that indicates customer service and the customer experience (CX) are more important than ever. According to Forrester, 72% of businesses say that improving the customer experience is their top priority. A study from NewVoiceMedia indicates that companies lose more than $62 billion due to poor customer service. No company […]

By Brian Handwerk writing for National Geographic Find out how the date got its unlucky reputation and how even nonbelievers may be influenced by our collective triskaidekaphobia. As if October wasn’t spooky enough, this year the creepiest month also features the return of Friday the 13th. October 13 is the second ill-fated Friday to fall in 2017. […]

by Thomas Biery  Polygon.com  Now, this is quite a different feeling. Star Wars: The Force Awakens delivered a message of potential. Rey and Finn, practical nobodies held back and tormented by their pasts, were driven by fate into an adventure that made them heroes. Rey in particular realized her strong connection with the Force, and resisted even […]

By Lily Hay Newman writing for Wired.com   WHEN YAHOO DISCLOSED in December that a billion (yes, billion) of its users’ accounts had been compromised in an August 2013 breach, it came as a staggering revelation. Now, 10 months later, the company would like to make a correction: That incident actually exposed three billion accounts—every Yahoo account that […]

 by Kevin Sheridan Hundreds of millions of workers worldwide dread going to work every day. But for those workers who have to work with a jerk or workplace bully, going to work is unbearable. All of these office jerks are Actively Disengaged employees whose behaviors contribute to their coworkers’ depression, anxiety, health problems, despair, and insomnia. […]

BY JENNIFER HIJAZI Islands throughout the Caribbean communities are beginning a long road to recovery from several major hurricanes that have ravaged the Atlantic. But Puerto Rico in particular is facing what local officials have described as a full-blown humanitarian crisis, with devastation they call “apocalyptic.” Less than two weeks after Hurricane Irma made landfall on the […]

WRITTEN BY: Rachel Cole for Britannica.com Religious leaders, scientists, and even a hen (or so it seemed) have been making predictions for the end of the world almost as long as the world has been around. They’ve predicted the destruction of the world through floods, fires, and comets—luckily for us, none of it has come to […]