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Twenty-three year old Marcus Rashford is a shining—and rare—example of someone using his celebrity for the greater good. Thanks to his tireless advocacy, many poor children across the UK will not go hungry this year. This is what real leadership is about!

Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford Took on Boris Johnson—and Won Marcus Rashford has spent the year mounting a pressure campaign to help feed needy children. On Saturday, the Manchester United star provoked another U-turn from the U.K. government.

Great piece about the do's and don'ts in following up with a potential hiring manager.

Is It Normal to Have to Send a Hiring Manager (Lots of) Reminders? Is it Normal to Have to Do Job Interview Follow-up -The Muse: The hiring manager is always positive when they...

Next time someone calls you difficult, consider it a compliment.

Lucy Kellaway: I am a difficult woman, and proud of it Being difficult at work is not generally thought to be a good thing – but it can be

Advances in artificial intelligence are destroying thousands of job every week. Check this out to see if you are art risk of losing yours!

The jobs we'll lose to machines -- and the ones we won't Machine learning isn't just for simple tasks like assessing credit risk and sorting mail anymore -- today, it's capable of far more complex applications, like grading essays and diagnosing diseases. With these advances comes an uneasy question: Will a robot do your job in the future?

Hilarious piece about how a disillusioned tech worker got even after getting laid off one too many times.

Congratulations Player One, Your Zombie Boss Didn’t Fire You In South Korea, where youth unemployment has hit an all-time high, mobile games such as ‘Don’t Get Fired!’ have found success by poking fun at the working world.

Adultery, rule-breaking and creativity often go together, research shows. Think of the implications...

Adultery, rule-breaking and creativity often go together - FT.com The hacking last year of the Ashley Madison adultery site caused embarrassment to millions. But for business school academics at Tulane and Michigan State universities, the hacked data presented a research opportunity: how many of the site’s

Great piece in the HBR about jobs that demand your attention 24/7 and how you can protect yourself against them.

Managing the High-Intensity Workplace

In the US, when they no longer like you or your work, they fire you. In France, they just completely ignore until you quit in disgust. Which do you think is worse? Vote here!

Wonderful piece in the Financial Times about what makes original thinkers tick.

Life lessons from original thinkers - FT.com One nice thing about my job is that I sometimes get to interview original thinkers. This fascinating category of people is distinct from “winners” or “leaders”. Some original thinkers end up winning money and prizes, but that’s not what they are

Managers and executives who don't think highly of themselves consistently outperform those who think they're great.

Feeling useless at your job is painful but ensures you never are - FT.com If you want to be successful, the first step is not to know yourself very well. For years the emotional intelligence movement has been telling us the reverse — that self-knowledge is vital to get anywhere at all. There has never been much evidence

The new "mistakes are okay" culture may not be all it's cracked up to be.

Lucy Kellaway: Think we learn from mistakes? You’re mistaken The chief executive of UBS told his bankers it’s okay to get things wrong. It isn’t

Taking jobs to build up your resume is the same as saving up s*x for old age.
- Warren Buffett