Tag: Careers
This CEO started his career pumping gas and cleaning windshields. He said it taught him the secret to climbing the ladder without stepping on others | Fortune
The battle for America’s fried chicken loyalty shows no signs of cooling. Yet amid the heat of the so-called “chicken wars,” Bojangles has quietly...
This founder went from designing Happy Meal toys to making prosthetic skulls for a living—and her company now rakes in $20 million a year | Fortune
Happy Meal toys like Transformer figurines and Hot Wheels cars have sparked joy with little kids for decades—and now, one of the designers behind...
The CEOs of Apple, Airbnb, and PepsiCo agree on one thing: life as a business leader is incredibly lonely | Fortune
Being CEO has its many perks: Business leaders get to command the world’s most powerful companies, shape their legacies as pioneers of industry, and...
Founder of $100 million company says she quit her day job to rebuild her father’s Cape Cod chip empire—and there ‘wasn’t time’ to worry about nepotism | Fortune
Serial entrepreneur Nicole Bernard Dawes seemed destined to build million-dollar food brands. As a kid, she grew up working the counter of her mother’s...
Billionaire ex-Google CEO says one deceptively simple weekend habit will help you level up at work | Fortune
Eric Schmidt, whose net worth is hovering around $45 billion, knows what it takes to climb the corporate ladder in Silicon Valley, having spent...
Lyft CEO on the time Bill Gates told him he was making ‘the stupidest decision I’ve ever heard anyone made’ | Fortune
Before David Risher was tasked with scripting a “comeback story” for ride-sharing company Lyft, he made a career move so audacious that it prompted...
This teacher quit crowded classrooms to run her own microschool—now she’s earning over $100K and finally doesn’t have to work a summer job | Fortune
But for Apryl Shackelford, those anxieties have been replaced with opportunity.
The 55-year-old is beginning her fourth year as the leader of Liberty City Primer,...
U.S. Olympic gold medalist track star went from $200,000-a-year sponsorship to $12-an-hour internship | Fortune
Even for Olympic gold medalists, financial security isn’t guaranteed. Just ask Lauryn Williams. The Olympic track and bobsled champion earned $200,000 a year at...
Do you know your attachment style? It could be the reason you’re not getting promoted at work | Fortune
Forget bad interviews or office politics—the biggest threat to your next promotion might have formed in childhood, long before you started working. Psychologists warn...
Gen Z’s hiring nightmare is really about discrimination. ‘Youngism’ is worse than AI when it comes to eating entry-level jobs | Fortune
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell put it bluntly after the Fed’s rate cut on Wednesday: recent graduates are feeling the squeeze. At his press conference, he...
