When my dad, James Murko Sever, came over from Croatia, immigrants came to this country to make a good living. He was 16. He and my mother saved money to buy two farms. He worked third shift in the ...

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Undergrads studying modern capitalism are usually assigned Max Weber's famous essay. But our own ideas about the "Protestant work ethic" rest on a misreading of Weber's. Research defining grit as ...

As we venture into 2025, we may be thinking about ways to improve our lives in the new year. New year’s resolutions are easy to make, but also easy to break. But what if there were ways to improve the ...

In your career, you might think that professionalism and a strong work ethic are at the top of the list of professional values sought by employers. They are certainly on the list, but many other core ...

The Enron mess sure seems to be opening up a lot of old wounds. For instance, several years ago, I was employed by a popular consumer electronics company, until it lost half its stock value overnight ...