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If you were told that investment in a key input for business operations has been neglected for over forty years--and is increasingly in a state of disrepair--how would you react? What if that same...
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Your car, your house, your education, even the gasoline you put in your car and the groceries you purchase. What's the determining factor behind each of them? Your finances. What you can afford, along...
View ArticleHow We Ideated, Designed, and Launched a Product over a Three-Day Weekend
This year, my friend and I decided to spend this MLK Jr. weekend a little bit differently (it was too cold to do anything fun, anyway). Overcaffeinated and overconfident, we decided to design and...
View Article3 Ways You Can Use Social Media To Help Your Business Soar
Social media is regularly discussed as one of the best marketing strategies to use to get ahead in business and build a top brand. However, there are plenty of people out there who have been trying...
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As global elites gathered in Davos this week, the World Economic Forum released a daunting survey that estimates that 5 million jobs will be lost across the world in coming years to robotic automation....
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All over the world, mental health is a growing challenge, but is still treated as a second-class condition by most health-care systems.In the United States, about 60 million people are affected by...
View ArticleHow Can We Create a World Where Plastic Never Becomes Waste?
Today nearly everyone, everywhere, every day, comes into contact with plastics. Plastics have become the ubiquitous workhorse material of the modern economy -- combining unrivalled functional...
View ArticleWhy Art Has the Power to Change the World
One of the great challenges today is that we often feel untouched by the problems of others and by global issues like climate change, even when we could easily do something to help. We do not feel...
View Article5 Key Trends for the Future of Clean Energy
In November 2015, the Breakthrough Energy Coalition (BEC), a team of private investors, announced a multi-billion dollar fund to "get energy technologies out of the lab and into the marketplace." The...
View ArticleThe Keys to Strengthening the Organization in Your First 100-days in a New Job
Of all the tools in your toolbox, putting people in the right roles is one of the most powerful. It is also the most explosive. As you seek to evolve (or shock!) the culture, these moves will be the...
View ArticleMindful Leadership -- the Key to Creating Successful Organizations for Which...
The characteristics that are desired by the modern manager can be developed and reinforced through mind training. When I was a young certified public accountant, more years ago than I care to count, my...
View Article2016 Hottest Jobs, Highest Paying Companies and Fastest Growing Industries
Daydreaming of a new job? With the unemployment rate hovering at 5 percent, and companies hiring an average of 284,000 employees per month over the past 3 months (the best 3-month pace in a year) there...
View Article10 Mistakes Smart People Never Make Twice
Everybody makes mistakes -- that's a given -- but not everyone learns from them. Some people make the same mistakes over and over again, fail to make any real progress, and can't figure out...
View ArticleCandidate Bernie Is Candidate Obama
What I learned from last Sunday's Charlotte, South Carolina Democratic debate, the last debate before the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries, is that Bernie Sanders the idealist is almost a reincarnation...
View ArticleHissah Al Sabah: An Enterprising Kuwaiti Princess
She's not your stereotypical Arab princess out of some Hollywood producer's imagination, but a hard working entrepreneur fiercely supporting women's empowerment. She is Her Highness Sheikha Hissah Saad...
View Article11 Ways Successful People Overcome Uncertainty
Our brains are hardwired to make much of modern life difficult. This is especially true when it comes to dealing with uncertainty. On the bright side, if you know the right tricks, you can override...
View ArticleWhy the Middle East and North Africa Need More Women in the Workforce... And...
Co-authored by Roba Al-Assi There are many good reasons for tackling female workforce participation as a matter of priority in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The potential economic benefit of...
View ArticleBeating Procrastination: 72 Successful People Reveal their Most Powerful Tips
Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow?"This isn't important right now, I will get to it later." "This is too difficult, let's keep it for next week." "I need to be in the right mood." "I...
View ArticleEntrepreneurs Like Tony Robbins Always Ask "Why"
When you meet someone for the first time, there are a few predictable questions you usually ask to get to know them. The most common, of course, is "what do you do for a living?" Not a bad conversation...
View Article5 Best States for Auto Insurance Buyers
Most people think that the more you pay for insurance, the better you will be protected, and that the service you receive will be better. Unfortunately, the facts don't support this belief. In fact,...
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