In today’s high-pressure business environment, leadership demands more than operational excellence or strategic foresight. It requires emotional intelligence, authenticity and the ability to build ...

Ellie Victor, Cofounder and CEO of ZOOM Marketing, one of Silicon Valley's premier positioning agencies with hundreds of successful clients. The other day, I caught up with a client we hadn’t worked ...

NPR's Juana Summers talks with Damon Young about That's How They Get You, his new humor anthology featuring essays by Black writers. What do you do if you hear from someone about a really difficult ...

NPR's Sacha Pfieffer speaks to comedian Chris Duffy about his new book, "Humor Me." In it, he explores how laughing can be therapeutic and argues that humor can be taught, lost and regained. Chris ...

In the past year, I’ve had the privilege of working with a leading scholar in humor studies. Dr. Jennalee Donian is an NIHSS postdoctoral research fellow at Nelson Mandela University in South Africa ...

Do you have that one friend who says the most absurd dark joke at the dinner table and leaves everyone stunned? If not, sorry to break it to you, but you might be that person. Some people just love ...

Humor, that subtle art of wit, is often brandished as a social privilege. Yet, when it becomes anchored in sexist clichés, it becomes anything but harmless. Because behind the joke, there is sometimes ...

Laughter is often seen as a sign of intimacy in relationships. It lightens conflict, deepens connection, and helps partners weather hard times together. But not all humor is created equal. Sometimes, ...