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Tito Beveridge didn’t set out to build a big nationwide vodka company. He just set out to meet some girls, write off his bar tab, and maybe make $1,200 a […]
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There’s a misconception that the knowledge economy doesn’t also encompass making things.
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How do you get a million and a half people to read a blog post on tax policy? Obama digital wunderkind Teddy Goff has a simple mantra: don’t be lame.
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An investor-relations specialist, Laura Rittenhouse has compiled an annual survey of CEO shareholder letters since 1999 that ranks 100 big companies based on seemingly unquantifiable metrics relating to corporate culture […]
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Economists were seduced by physics because it made their claims seem more scientific. Their belief was in the concept of equilibrium, in which it would be impossible to profit from […]
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For some, the word ‘mastery’ conjures up images of medieval samurai or classical pianists. But Robert Greene, acclaimed author of Mastery, The 48 Laws of Power, and Seduction teaches that […]
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When social comparison trickle into the decisions we make, it affects the way we think about the problem or the decision itself.
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We see memes popping up all the time over the Internet. And yet, anything that bursts in isolation is not useful. It’s just interesting. What makes it useful and what […]
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When it comes to improving your life and your career, it is essential to be able to properly evaluate your strengths and weaknesses.
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We tend to get sidetracked because we are too confident in our own abilities.
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The latest research is showing that kids who plan their own schedules, set their own work actually evaluate their own progress are actually building up their brains. Their cortexes are […]
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“I’m not a philosophical megalomaniac,” says Slavoj Žižek. Philosophy is not here to provide all of the answers. What it can do however, which is more powerful, is ask the […]
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I assert that if you were depressed after learning and being exposed to the cosmic perspective, you started your day with an unjustifiably large ego.
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Robert Kaplan argues that the keys to advancement in your career is taking risks, or “playing the game with some degree of abandon.”
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I am optimistic that religion is not strictly needed. But I cannot be a hundred percent sure because there is no human society where religion is totally absent so we […]
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Fourth Graders seem to be able to do so much more than we give them credit for or even imagine they can.
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Technology makes bombs and it can put us on Mars. Technology is neither good nor bad. It is a reflection of us.
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Recognizing the gains of emerging markets like Columbia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Turkey is not just good manners. It’s good business.
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Networking has come to take on negative connotations. Adam Rifkin was listed as Fortune’s best networker, with more connections on LinkedIn to the most powerful people in the world than […]
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Robert Kaplan advises people to write down the story of their failures in order to make themselves aware of them.
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On a day-to-day life in the colon is probably pretty mundane, says science writer Mary Roach.
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Mastery is basically a form of intelligence that people reach after years of working in a field, years of practice, experience, some failure.
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I think there are so many voices out there now weighing in at all times that no single piece of criticism can have the same impact, not at this moment […]
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I made predictions for what the global economy would look like in the very long term, maybe 10, 20, 40 years down the road. We are seeing some of these […]
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Predictive analytics is technology that not only gives organizations the power to predict the future but also to influence the future.
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Robert Kaplan explains that his book is all about process, or teaching the steps that people need to reach their own potential.
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We spend the first year teaching children to walk and talk and the rest of their lives telling them to shut up and sit down.
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In the age of social media we might have large networks but few if any real relationships.
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Today there is a multiplicity of outlets now through which you can get supposed economic research and access to new economic ideas.
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In Space Chronicles, Neil deGrasse Tyson describes how the Soviet Union was a catalyst for the U.S. space program, and China might be considered a similar catalyst today.
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