In today’s high-pressure business environment, leadership demands more than operational excellence or strategic foresight. It requires emotional intelligence, authenticity and the ability to build ...

For business owners, it’s tempting to play things on the safe side and strive to never, ever offend a potential customer. Controversy is a good way to get attention, but many companies veer firmly ...

What is the deal with startup teams who joke around? It is common knowledge that a sense of humor can help individuals reduce anxiety during tough times. But new research shows that anxiety-reducing ...

If you want to build the best teams in the world, start with a laugh. Seriously. Humor isn’t a soft skill or a nice-to-have. It’s one of the most powerful and human tools leaders have. It’s primal. It ...

Following his successful bid to buy Twitter, Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, took to the platform to joke about his next conquest. "Next I'm buying Coca-Cola to put the cocaine back in," Musk ...

John Cleese, the English actor of Monty Python fame, is known for his expertise in business communications. He said: "If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open ...

The late Norman Cousins was a famous magazine editor and author when, at midlife, he came down with what doctors believed was an incurable illness. Cousins began an exhaustive study of the illness on ...

Pssst! Did you hear the one about the American businessman whose tame joke drew a hilarious response from his Japanese audience? The American, curious why they liked the joke so much, later asked his ...

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 ...

Redwood City’s long-running, family-owned costume shop is a hub for all things Halloween – and beyond. House of Humor staffer Morgan Ziert and manager Lucas Araujo work behind the counter. Photo by ...

Good Humor Corp. of America declares dividends whenever the idea pops into the busy head of Michael J. (”Mike”) Meehan. Last week Mr. Meehan passed out a 50¢ dividend. Most of the half dollars clinked ...