WOODBRIDGE — The gray walls of Faisal Saleh’s Palestine Museum US are starting to be filled with paintings and photographs representing his people’s contributions to art and culture. While the grand opening of the museum at 1764 Litchfield Turnpike won’t be held until April 22, the museum is open by appointment. “Really there is some […]

Hutchinson native Joe Meier, 25, is the author of a new lifestyle book, “Move Better, Eat Smarter, Live Happier: Strategies for Finding Balance.” The fitness professional and business owner is the featured speaker at a “Meet the Author” program from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 3, at the Hutchinson Public Library, 50 Hassan St. […]

Black Panther celebrates black culture on several fronts Black Panther is in many ways a love letter to black culture. Africa has traditionally been an unsophisticated bit player in American media, often portrayed as backward, savage, and chaotic in everything from news coverage to films. It’s a portrayal that has left little room for other interpretations, which […]

Several months of research, several hundreds of profile views, several dozens of resumes, 32 phone screens, 14 first interviews and three-second interviews all came down to two questions. Our real estate firm was two questions away from landing our top candidates. These were their questions, though …

The news came down on Thanksgiving Day. ASL19 founder Ali Karimzadeh Bangi, one of the leading lights of the expat Iranian digital rights community, appeared in court on charges of sexual assault and forcible imprisonment. The following day, he would be forced to cut ties with ASL19 entirely. For many in civil society groups, the […]

Peter Drucker, the management guru, is often credited with the all-true saying that "culture eats strategy for breakfast." In a later era, Tech guru and investor Marc Andreessen famously said that "software is eating the world." Now, as organizations of all types push harder than ever to employ software to …

(Well maybe not every type of company culture. As a customer service consultant, I’ve limited my practice to cultures that aspire to focus on the customer and support employees as multi-dimensional human beings. So if you have more transactional, customer-agnostic cultural goals, the applicability of these seven steps may be limited.) 1. Shorten your mission statement. Are there consultants (or CEOs) out […]

From a price perspective, matching festival culture with playlist culture is almost a no-brainer. As with a Spotify monthly subscription, an individual music festival charges a fixed price for a buffet-style experience, in which concert-goers can jump easily from one act to the next. Embedded within this type of …

But there's much more to the tech titan's successful culture than free meals and on-site amenities like massages and dry cleaning. There are other intangible qualities that keep Googlers happy, productive and dedicated to the company. Thirteen Forbes Technology Council members, some of whom have …

Crisis Text Line, a nonprofit that offers emotional support through text messaging, has spent four years connecting people in extreme emotional duress with online counselors. Now its founder is creating a startup called Loris.ai to help companies teach employees how to communicate. “There are a lot of companies right now that are fearful of having hard conversations,” […]