Inspiration is the only thing in business or life that gives you something beyond a product or service: It gives you meaning.

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The year 2025 gave us many inspirational and encouraging stories. Some made history on a national level, while others ...

A conversation with Columbia Business School’s Adam Galinksy on honing your style. What does it take to really energize people and motivate them toward a goal? Inspirational leadership might seem ...

For the past nine years, the first thing I’ve published each January 1 is a list of 365 inspirational quotes for the new year—366, of course, in the case of leap years, of which there have been three ...

Feeling inspired. That often elusive thing we all wish we could feel more. But, very often, we can feel the exact opposite of inspired. Even if life is going seemingly well. Over years of fluctuating ...

It is generally assumed that the literary creative process, especially poetic creation, starts with inspiration. Popular descriptions of the poet creating a poem usually conjure up an image of a ...