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If you want to advance in your career, you simply can’t do everything. Here’s how to improve your delegation skills.

Leaders today aren’t just overworked—they’re oversaturated. Here’s how to fix it.

When it comes to your work life, it’s easy to become stuck in your ways and stick with the same bad habits. But, if you’ve vowed that this is the year you’re going to change that, these hacks can help.

5 mins read//Many of us were raised to strive to be the best. Hence most of us are trying to be the best at work too.

You can turn these challenges into an advantage, fostering a truly collaborative environment where diverse perspectives drive success.

If we want to ramp up our productivity and happiness at home and at work, we should actually be doing less. But that’s incredibly difficult as you’re balancing work, parenting, friendships, and more. When you stop doing the things that make you feel busy but aren’t getting you results, then you end up with more than enough time for what matters. You can follow a simple exercise to help decide what activities on your to-do list brings you the most value, and which you can stop doing. Decide on an area of your life where you’d like to have better results and less stress. Write down the tasks you do in that area on one side of a piece of paper, and on the other, list successes you’ve had in that area. Then, identify which tasks directly contributed to those successes. Anything that didn’t directly contribute can be eliminated, greatly reduced, or delegated to someone else.

A growing body of research suggests that sharing stories can help teams bond and work towards a common goal.

In this Nano Tool for Leaders, Wharton experts reveal how to enhance leadership by adopting successful practices from Japanese organizations.

4 mins read//The strategic use of colors in your workspace can have a profound impact on employee mood, behavior, and overall well-being.

Rather than hit the panic button, leaders can model grace under pressure with a little bit of practice.

Research from Wharton’s Rebecca Schaumberg explores the downside of expressing pride in your own work.

4 mins read//This gives the leadership, and the wider team, a real time insight into the collective wellbeing and likely performance for the day.