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If you're a caring and empathic guy, but you've noticed that you're a lot more likely to come home from work with a headache than a promotion, chances...

Just minutes into its first screening, the ultraserious dramatic film The Room began eliciting laughter. Soon, people in the audience were "peeing in...

You have a wonderful fashion sense. Those clothes you're wearing today, for example - they look great! You don't believe me. You couldn't possibly - after...

"When I was younger, I used to go to cocktail parties and listen to what people were talking about and deliberately insert myself into conversations to...

You know those out-of-left-field customer reactions that so often foul up new initiatives? Like the enraged response that Facebook is getting in response...

You had an innovative idea, you did your homework to show that it'd be valuable and practical, and the product-development people dissed it. Was it the...

To me, one of the most disturbing images in literature isn't Big Brother's menacing stare or Anna Karenina's body under the train, but what the Parsee...

If you really want to take a break from your managerial labors, don't just ignore the BlackBerry. Stop empathizing. Stop being positive. Stop being Mr....