By  Kevin Sheridan author of Building a Magnetic Culture At many of the conferences where I am a keynote speaker, I have encountered several large myths and inaccuracies purported and communicated about Employee Engagement. It is sad to me that managers and executives may be taking errant action plan steps based upon these inaccuracies and mistruths. […]

by Josh Constine (@joshconstine) writing for techcrunch.com Today Facebook launches its full assault on YouTube with a dedicated hub for watching Live and recorded videos in its mobile app. A Video tab is taking over Messenger’s prime, center spot in the navigation bar at the bottom of the screen, turning Facebook into a destination for discovering videos […]

By Jessica Harper writing for U.S. News Today’s administrative professionals do more than make coffee runs and screen phone calls. When Kemetia Foley registered for an International Association of Administrative Professionals meeting in Reno, Nev., nearly six years ago, she mostly planned to make a few contacts and take some best-practice ideas back to her supervisor. […]

By Rob Asghar , CONTRIBUTOR, Forbes “It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct,” Sigmund Freud said. There’s always a tension between how much we should follow our instincts and how much we should yield to social conventions. But at times like ours, the tendency is to tilt […]

By J.T. Messinger, WGRZ BUFFALO, NY — Dyngus Day in Buffalo, Perhaps in no place embraces the quirky holiday quite like the queen city.  At the core of that celebration is the annual Dyngus Day parade, now in its tenth year. “We come down here ever year.  We missed a couple of people this year, Bobby […]

BY Scott Mendelson , CONTRIBUTOR for Forbes One of the narratives coming out of this weekend’s blockbuster Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice opening was that it “defied the critics” or that “critics don’t matter.” Well, as always with these sorts of things, it’s a little more complicated than that. Yes, the film got a stunningly low […]

By Todd Martens LA Times The brakes have officially been released on the virtual-reality era. This week, Oculus’ $599 Rift headsets begin arriving on the doorsteps of consumers who pre-ordered the device in January. Two more high-end VR headsets are on the way, one from HTC and another from Sony, designed to work with the company’s PlayStation […]

Not everyone goes hunting for eggs on Easter Sunday. BY AMANDA GREENE & ALEXIS HOBBS writing for Woman’s Day. Kids in the U.S. grow up expecting a delivery of eggs and candy from the Easter bunny each year, but it may seem odd to an outsider. Brought to this country by German immigrants in the […]

By Elizabeth Weise and Kevin Johnson, for USA TODAY SAN FRANCISCO — In the month since it became public knowledge that the FBI was locked out of an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino killers, the bureau has been flooded with offers from people who said they could get into the encrypted phone, a federal […]

This interview with Joshua Reeves, C.E.O. and co-founder of Gusto, an online payroll, benefits and workers’ compensation firm, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. Q. What were some early influences for you? A. I was born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, but my mother is from Bolivia and my father’s from […]