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Discover top ideas and strategies from today’s leading business voices.

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Poor research can be worse than no research at all.
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Voltaire's wonderful satire, Candide, remains a useful work-life antidote to bogus platitudes and naive optimism.
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We’ve made god-like figures out of hard-charging CEOs — but it’s a bad idea to get high on your own supply.
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30 years ago Jim VandeHei — co-founder and CEO of Axios — got leadership feedback all wrong. Now, he has the ideal blueprint so you can get it right.
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Too many companies fail to recognize that “the deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated” — but the solution is easy.
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Astranis is on a mission to help everyone in the world get online.
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Consumer debt shapes American lives so thoroughly that it seems eternal and immortal, but it’s actually relatively new to the financial world.
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Tough and cutthroat leaders are celebrated in a results-driven culture — but there is another path to C-suite success.
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Six visionary science fiction authors on the social impact of their work.
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The ability to toggle between abstract and concrete thinking is a key differentiator of high-potential leaders.
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When Google runs a smart city, who owns the data?
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Rich is brilliant at his job. He completes work in half the time of his coworkers. Should he have to sit at his desk just as long?
Boardroom veteran David Roche offers key strategies that can lay the groundwork for CEO success.
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"Stargate" could be used to train the world’s most powerful AIs.
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Executive advisor Tiffani Bova wants leaders to value their employees as much as their customers.
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The transformational change driven by AI will elevate neurodiversity inclusion as an organizational asset, argues Maureen Dunne.
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The old certainties of “business as usual” have been crushed by disruption — here's a strategy for resilience.
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Why most billionaires aren’t geniuses and most geniuses aren’t billionaires, explained by political scientist Brian Klaas.
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According to Harvard career advisor Gorick Ng, this time-saving system can help us reclaim our work-life sanity.
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On the morning of April 20, 1961, all conditions were "go" for an attempt at free flight. A man was on standby with a fire extinguisher. Just in case.