Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson identifies three types of failure: basic, complex and intelligent. Basic and complex failures should be minimized, but intelligent failure, which involves learning from mistakes in unfamiliar areas, is crucial for growth and innovation. Edmondson advises approaching tasks as experiments and setting clear goals to embrace intelligent failure.

Workplace incivility, defined as consistent rudeness and impoliteness, is a cultural issue that thrives when accountability is lacking, writes Sharlyn Lauby. Organizations should enforce conduct policies, provide communication training and ensure psychological safety to address this issue.

Colorado Mountain College, the Buena Vista School District and The Powerhouse museum in Durango, Colo., plan to create a total of 330 child care seats over the next two years with funding from state grants, addressing child care shortages in rural areas. The grants, part of a program funded by federal COVID-19 stimulus money, support employer-based child care to reduce staff turnover and improve morale.

If you spend too much time "in the trenches" with our team, or with your head in the clouds as a visionary, it's a good bet your team sees you as a poor leader, which is why Suzy Welch, a professor at NYU Stern School of Business, recommends becoming a "lanager" who can balance leadership and management skills. "Lanagers" must be able to move between practical execution and big-picture thinking and have the conviction needed to make tough decisions, says Welch.

A recent study revealed a 50% decline in the use of semicolons over the last two decades; continuing a long-term trend of disdain for a punctuation mark some view as elitist. Despite criticism from figures like Kurt Vonnegut, many authors and scholars argue for the semicolon's preservation, citing its utility in creating complex sentences.

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