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We All Need to Feel Valued (Especially at Work), Right Loyal Readers?

Feeling devalued or diminished by a fellow employee or boss can be difficult. Here’s how you can deal with it.

Is Your Boss a Psychopath? Or Merely Mean?

Two separate studies offer insights for why your boss is such an abusive jerk. One says that corporate managers score higher than the average population on tests measuring psychopathy. The other reveals that bosses who make big bucks are much meaner to their employees compared to executives who aren’t earning astronomical salaries. So consider yourself [...]

When Bosses Make Tough Decisions–and Get Egged

So you’re an exec who shoots to stardom in a time of crisis and are subsequently given the top job and a mandate to remake your organization. You do so–and that’s when the trouble starts. TIME senior writer Christine Gorman writes this week about Julie Gerberding, director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. [...]