Culture and Society

Patricia Gale chatted with business coach and author Howard Partridge about his new book, 'The Power of Community.' The bottom line is a sense of belonging, notes Partridge — and leaders can leverage that into an incredible tool for driving employee engagement.

Now, there’s an analytics tool that could help you accomplish this feat of productivity: it’s called Gmail Metrics, and it enables you to visualize many of your Gmail-related activities in charts and graphs.

Rather than automation becoming just another tool, or replacing your job entirely, companies will likely move toward human-automation hybrid spaces. Here's how you can prepare to thrive in that future.

The care of a family should not be a solo venture that falls on one woman's shoulders. In the best of circumstances, it should be shared among immediate and extended family and the greater community. If the burden were lightened and shared, the result might be that we'd see fewer women – and men – behind bars.

The scrappy Secret Theatre, whose snazzy production of 'Cabaret' was an Off-Off-Broadway highlight last year, has done well by another classic big musical with a sinewy 'Gypsy.'

Two HR veterans, Glenn Elliot and Debra Corey, have written 'Build It, The Rebel Playbook' — a terrific, crisp new book that offers a clear framework for driving employee engagement. If you want engaged employees, lead like a rebel, they say, and cite the renegade leaders of today's frontrunning organizations as proof.

Study some of the most successful organizations and you’re likely to discover that many of them have very similar priorities.

'Get Out' (3.5 stars) genuinely surprises today’s dynamic and demanding movie audiences. Visual effects, music, cinematography, editing, and set design elevate this thriller to a very high level. Free President's Day show on Monday, Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. (55 theaters).

The Olympic games offer a unique opportunity for humanity to dare to hope that we could all operate like this more frequently than for two weeks every four years.

Howard Partridge's new book, 'The Power of Community' is an inspiring and practical guidebook to transforming workplace culture, one person at a time.