Smart vacations lead to greater happiness and energy at work and, therefore, greater productivity, intelligence, and resilience.

You've probably noticed how when someone says hello or smiles at you, your automatic reaction is to say hello or smile back.

The idea of investing in the positivity of employees is often low down on companies' priority lists.

You spend money on Internet connection for your employees. Why not spend money on the energy that fuels their brains?

Because it's difficult to have a career as an artist, and in every situation where it's difficult to have a career, it's even harder for women, for all the other reasons that it's harder in other fiercely contested fields.

What Qatar chose is a system where a worker is owned by his employer. When your employer forces you to live in squalor, makes you work longest hours in extreme heat, doesn't allow you to change jobs, doesn't pay your wages on time, abuses you physically and psychologically, you have no way out, you can't leave. You are trapped.

I learned early in my writing career that if I try to tailor a song for someone else, I'm usually off base. They're usually looking for something from you with your character.

The moment when I broke my leg, when I realized my leg was broken, I thought my career was over.