Most facilitators and team leaders I’ve talked to see the value of assigning some sort of pre-work before a virtual meeting and bemoan the fact that only a small fraction of the participants take this request seriously and complete their assignments.  It’s time to take a new look at how to make meeting pre-work... 

Conan O’Brien has made it clear he won’t surrender his post-nightly news Tonight Show slot to make way for Jan Leno. Part of Conan’s argument is that if you do The Tonight Show in any other time slot, it’s not true to the legacy of Johnny Carson and what made the show an institution. “But I cannot participate... 

It’s not news that workers are struggling. Unemployment’s at 10%. And as my colleagues so deftly describe in this week’s cover story, more of those who are working are doing so as temporary help, hoping for enough salary at month’s end to cover both the rent and their health insurance. How is...