Success
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Former ‘Glee’ star Jane Lynch says the secret to career success isn’t a 10-year plan: ‘Life doesn’t care about your timeline’
Jane Lynch may be a Hollywood mainstay today, but the Glee star had no career plan after college and didn’t even land her breakout role as fiery cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester until the age of 49. And it’s proof, she told Gen Z, that you don’t need to have it all figured out in your…
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MacKenzie Scott’s approach to her $26 billion giving spree was inspired by a book she read in college about writing
Before MacKenzie Scott signed the Giving Pledge and started on her path to give away her $36 billion net worth, she went looking for a paragraph in a book she’d marked up during her college years. Scott signed the Giving Pledge on May 25, 2019, just months after her divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos…
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Walmart CEO John Furner worked his way up from the garden center. After 30 years, he’s sharing the one trait that matters most in his job
For the past 13 years, Walmart sat atop the Fortune 500 as America’s revenue king. But this year, Amazon pulled off what once seemed unthinkable: overtaking the $930 billion market cap retail giant and ushering in a new phase in the battle for retail supremacy. For Walmart CEO John Furner, however, adapting to change is…
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Gen Zers are more disconnected and distrustful of coworkers than their older colleagues—and they’re so lonely they’re taking days off work
Gen Zers are craving social connection, but they’re not finding it with their office peers. Navigating work settings has been a tough ride for the post-pandemic professional cohort, who missed out on office kitchen banter while being onboarded over Zoom: Now, they’re taking time off of work to cope with their loneliness. Gen Z employees…
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CEO says anyone who works from home is grabbing groceries or at the vet 30% of the time—and shows off his busy office at Friday 5 p.m. to prove it
Just when you thought the dust had settled on the return-to-office wars, one startup founder has reignited the debate—accusing remote workers of sneaking off and doing life admin on company dime for a third of their working day. Serial founder Bridger Pennington panned his camera around an office full of people still at their desks…
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The IBM executive tasked with retraining 30 million workers is changing how she thinks about the AI finish line
Justina Nixon-Saintil has a big job: train 30 million people with new skills — with a significant emphasis on AI — by 2030. With 22 million reached and over three years left, she’s changing how she thinks about the finish line. For years, the assumption driving IBM’s skilling push — and much of the broader workforce…
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Cisco CEO says he’s the fastest messenger on his team—and hires people with the same urgency and ‘desire to move’
Professionals are now tasked with keeping up with a dizzying number of communications platforms, from Slack to LinkedIn. And being a quick communicator with a clear inbox may give you a leg up at $504 billion tech giant Cisco—CEO Chuck Robbins prides himself on his rapid-fire replies, and looks to hire talent who are just…
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Hundreds of teens are flooding job ads to work at ice cream shops and swimming pools as they grapple with the worst summer job market in 80 years
Summer jobs have been teenagers’ rite of passage for generations—from scooping ice cream and babysitting, to lifeguarding and bagging groceries. But as a hiring freeze has taken over the labor market, high schoolers are feeling the chill. So far 2026 is shaping up to be the worst summer job market in nearly eight decades. Teenagers…
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Jeff Bezos’ 25-year-old stress cure is to ‘make the first phone call, or send the first email’— and a recruiter says it lands even harder in 2026
With economic uncertainty, AI anxiety, and a brutal job market weighing on workers everywhere, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has a counterintuitive theory on coping with stress—and thinks most people get it completely wrong. Back in 2001, the then-new tech billionaire, fresh off Amazon’s 1997 IPO, took to the stage at the Academy of Achievement Summit…
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He sent out 3,200 résumés and got zero job offers in the 2008 crash. Now Outdoor Boys’ Luke Nichols is telling grads how he survived
Luke Nichols, better known as the Outdoor Boys YouTuber who captured the hearts of millions of viewers for his outdoor survival videos from the middle-of-nowhere Alaska, knows what it feels like to graduate in a wrecked economy. After all, he graduated from law school during the 2008 market crash. Standing before George Mason University’s law…