Cracking jokes in the office might seem like a shortcut to likability or leadership. But new research shows that humor at work is a gamble, and the costs of a flop are often greater than the rewards ...

Finding your place in today's economy is a bit like assembling a LEGO set without the instructions — even if you're trying your best, the future result isn't entirely clear.

I like humor. I try to be funny, and sometimes succeed. Thankfully, my podcast has a great producer, and so the final edits make me look a lot funnier than I really am (often by splicing together ...

I’ve been studying humor as an academic for a couple of decades now. I’ve written a doctoral dissertation about it, published articles about it, given talks about it, and am an avid consumer of ...

Some leaders use humor instinctively; many more could wield it purposefully. by Brad Bitterly and Alison Wood Brooks A few years ago, we conducted a research study in which we asked people to help us ...

One is an engineer-turned-comedian; the other, a communication professor at Texas A&M University. As founders of the consulting firm Humor That Works, brothers Dave and Andrew Tarvin teach people how ...

Some leaders use humor instinctively; many more could wield it purposefully. by Brad Bitterly and Alison Wood Brooks Humor is widely considered essential in personal relationships, but in leaders, ...