Randi Zuckerberg The founder and CEO of Zuckerberg Media is also the best-selling author of Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives. Don’t Go Into Business with Your Bestie “In my experience, it’s basically the end of your friendship. I think in life, we’re typically attracted to friends who are similar to us. In business, you […]
MARIE CLAIRE: What was your first job? LAURA ALBER: While I was in college at the University of Pennsylvania, I had my own small business making and selling hats. They were floppy, velvet things in style at the time. It gave me confidence about the idea that you could use your creativity to build something […]
The morning of my interview with social psychologist Amy Cuddy, I stand in one of the bathroom stalls at Marie Claire and do power poses. First I plant my legs wide and put my hands on my hips, Wonder Woman style, and hold the position before throwing both arms over my head the way runners […]
Those long, arduous workdays when you just. can’t. with overly cutthroat colleagues or a boss who piles on the menial tasks? Unfortunately, they’re par for the course. But that doesn’t mean you need to grin and bear it. Sure, an easy-going attitude and ready smile go a long way in the workplace, but being likeable […]
Update, 9/30: Amy Cuddy has issued a lengthy response to claims that her “power pose” study was flawed. You can read the full statement at Science of Us, but here are a few excerpts: I was surprised by a recent statement that the power pose effect is “not real” and I want to set the […]
A morning commute is nothing without a carefully crafted playlistto drown out the AM bustle. Similarly, a birthday bash is much improved when there’s a curated soundtrack playing in the background. Nowadays, you have Spotify to thank. Ever since the streaming music platform made its way across the pond and launched stateside in 2011, more […]
My boss Roberta smiled with her mouth, but not her eyes, as she unwrapped the Christmas present I’d bought her—a calendar filled with pictures of antique porcelain shoes. She collected the miniature shoes; they were scattered across her desk and the shelves in her office. It was the day before the holiday break at one […]
As a meteorologist for The Weather Channel’s weather.com, Kait Parker spent a lot of the 2016 presidential campaign frustrated that climate change was largely ignored. (It was also called a “hoax” by then-candidate Donald Trump.) Then, in late November, right-wing news website breitbart.com published an article alleging that the Earth is cooling, not warming, and […]
