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The hiring and managing of employees is the achilles heel of many an otherwise tightly-run organization. Why? Because human beings come with many more variables than do widgets – we’re […]
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One of the easiest places to look for new ideas in venture capital is all the technologies of the past 30 or 40 years that have failed to produce a […]
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If Romi Haan, the founder and CEO of South Korea’s Haan Corp could start over again, she (says she) would spend at least two years learning about home appliance sales […]
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At the end of the day, you might very well feel like you owe all of your success to your mentor, and the only way you can possibly repay that […]
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Music has amazing inspirational powers, says former Black Flag frontman Henry Rollins – but only collective action can stop a war or change a government.
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The "always-on" work culture, says Leslie Perlow, drains morale and initiative, and scatters employees’ mental resources, making it difficult for them to take ownership of projects and prioritize their efforts. […]
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Mariano-Florentino "Tino" Cuéllar on a few telling examples of government agencies' ability to learn from their mistakes, and from the successes of outsiders in the public and private sector.
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Will the natural gas boom revitalize the U.S. economy and provide us energy for 100 years? Fred Krupp, President of the Environmental Defense Fund, weighs in.
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80% of hiring happens on the informal job market, says Michael Ellsberg. His advice for job-seekers? Network, network, network.
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In many ways, college graduates are now actually in a worse position financially than those who don't go to college, says Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman. Here, Krugman shares his advice […]
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The United States is faced with multi-hundred billion dollar deficits stretching year after year into the future. How did it happen and what should be done about it?
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Ed Conard, a retired partner of Bain Capital says that one of the company's key insights was that "companies are in fierce competition with each other to deliver as much […]
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Economist Daniel Altman on gold's economic stability and why we shouldn't return to the gold standard.
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Baratunde Thurston's How To Be Black is neither peevish gripe nor venomous attack. Like the best satire, it convinces with wit and compassion, and offers readers a vision of a […]
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The Godfather of DIY Punk says that the internet has opened up new worlds of instantaneous communication, and new opportunities for media and governments to obscure and evade the truth.
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Veterans are a valuable asset in the civilian economy because they are a self-selected group who has shown initiative and been given a lot of responsibility at very young ages.
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That we are not instinctively built that way must be recognized if we’re going to get beyond the risks of not being built that way.
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Jeff Jarvis, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Peter Diamandis, Jonathan Harris, and Jaron Lanier on a better technological future informed by the best of human nature.