In Make Your Own Job, Erik Baker shows just how long Americans have scrambled to pile work on top of work—and at what cost.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Providing tools and resources to start, grow and manage your business. During my decades as an entrepreneur and business owner, ...

Effective communication is an essential skill for managers and employers. Using positive language to describe your team members is a powerful tool to show your support and admiration for their hard ...

A strong work ethic shows up in ways that go far beyond productivity or long hours. These traits shape not just careers, but character, influencing how people handle setbacks and everyday ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rachel Wells is a writer who covers leadership, AI, and upskilling. "Work ethic," a term touted the most in recent years by ...

Undergrads studying modern capitalism are usually assigned Max Weber's famous essay. But our own ideas about the "Protestant work ethic" rest on a misreading of Weber's. Research defining grit as ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. It has been a long-running debate concerning which generation has the best work ethic. Some arguments may get heated between Gen Z, ...

No literary form captures the pathologies of contemporary American work quite like the humble—honored, grateful, blessed—LinkedIn post. In the right light, the social network for professionals is a ...

Blogger's note: In my last post, about positive ethics, I mentioned the new ethics blog published by the Pennsylvania Psychological Association as an example of positive ethics in action. It is an ...