Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Tracy Brower writes about joy, community and the future of work. If you’re struggling at work—to get ahead, feel fulfilled or ...

Home Court Advantage General Manager Cory Powers is well-known for his passion for his work and family. Whatever he does, he gives it his full time and attention, and the end result shows his ...

Some people talk a big game about staying on top of their responsibilities, but they don't actually deliver, and their words usually betray their true approach. Most of the time, they put minimal ...

Jackie Nance Sons is the CEO and Founder of Native Wildflowers Nursery. She is a master gardener and loves to travel. The importance of hard work over experience in the workplace cannot be overstated.

When my dad, James Murko Sever, came over from Croatia, immigrants came to this country to make a good living. He was 16. He and my mother saved money to buy two farms. He worked third shift in the ...

Sarah and Sam had misgivings when a farmer-friend asked them to join a rock-picking crew shortly after public school ended. They offered only mild resistance when they learned that their friends would ...

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 ...

What if there was a way to improve the attitudes, self-esteem, and work ethic of our children? One proven way to do this is by implementing household chores for your kids starting from a young age.

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. What is a “work ethic”? In its most common usage, the phrase connotes a ...

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 ...

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. A woman moves to comfort a coworker who is slumped over her desk in despair, ...