López is the founder of Michael J. López Consulting, a former Big Four managing director, and the author of CHANGE: Six ...

Most problems at work don’t take months to fix, they just lack the right approach. This 5-step system shows how to identify the real issue, test solutions quickly, and take action without making ...

M indy Bernhardt teaches criminal justice to undergraduates at Kennesaw State University. In recent years she has found herself grading more easily and expecting less from her students. The reason?

The Wall Street titan Leon Black paid Jeffrey Epstein $170 million for what he said was tax and estate work. But his services went beyond that. Credit...Illustration by Anna Kliewer; source images by ...

After 30 months of fast-paced innovation in quantum algorithms, six research groups are hoping to hit paydirt. But there can be only one big winner—if there is a winner at all. I’m standing in front ...

The partial government shutdown is causing long lines at airports. Large numbers of TSA agents are calling out of work, and 366 have left their jobs. More than 20% of agents have called out at Atlanta ...

When Andrey Khusid cofounded Miro in 2011, the idea was simple: bring a whiteboard into the browser, and let people collaborate visually, not just with text. Now that digital canvas is evolving into ...

If you’re applying for jobs, you better get used to being interviewed by AI. Here’s how to ace an interview. Photo: Johnny Simon/WSJ, iStock One of the great hopes for artificial intelligence—at least ...

In 2019, Monte Leifheit, a warehouse operator at 3M, noticed his left eye was bloodshot and swollen. What began as a minor irritation turned into a yearlong medical odyssey marked by the lack of a ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

When solving a puzzle, the answer could lie in your dreams. In a study of lucid dreamers, playing soundtracks linked with unsolved puzzles helped the sleepers solve the problems the next day, ...

In a dark room, in the middle of the night, a woman lies dreaming. Suddenly, her eyes beneath their lids dart crisply left-right, left-right. The eye signal means she knows she’s dreaming. Lucid ...