Pointless, interminable meetings are often the bane of a worker’s day. How did it happen that highly trained and educated professionals choose to waste hours of their time each day, and what can be done to tame the meeting monster?

The perspectives that come to dominate our thinking about the aging of our population will probably say more about us as a people and about our collective character than any issue we’ve had to confront in modern times.

For hundreds of thousands of years, human beings have become brilliant at dealing with scarcity. Suddenly we’re confronted with the opposite problem: overabundance.

Philip Davies, a British Member of Parliament, caused a stir recently when he suggested that in order to improve their chances of finding a job, disabled people should be entitled to offer to work for less than the statutory minimum wage — theoretically making them more attractive as potential employees. An interesting idea or shockingly ill-advised?

It’s easy to think of jobs in terms of dollars and cents, but here are eight more factors or “currencies” that make the difference between feeling blessed and feeling cheated on the job.

The words “discipline” and “self discipline” are often used as near-synonyms. Yet they are far closer to polar opposites. Understanding the differences between “discipline” and “self-discipline” is key to success for individuals, families, and work groups.

One of the biggest obstacles to change is captured in the refrain “my life already takes up 100% of my time and energy…and now you want me to do more?” Truth be told, running a life at 100% is a problem all by itself. Fortunately there is a remedy.