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The World's Executives Are Getting Increasingly Optimistic About 2013
It's been a tough year in the business world. Growth worldwide has been sluggish, and Europe, though out of crisis mode for the moment, will struggle for years to come.This chart from McKinsey from its...
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Charity Gives Poor Kenyan Families $1000 — No Strings Attached
Every holiday season, the vast majority of America's charitable dollars are donated to local religious and educational institutions, or to particular causes, like protecting endangered species or...
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They Still Haven't Built A Better Mousetrap
"Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door."This famous (mis)quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson is used to describe the value in improving a basic product.His advice has also...
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Facebook's Lead Engineer Shares What It's Like Working At The Largest Social...
At Facebook, Andrew Bosworth is just known as "Boz." With his shaved head and tattoos, he looks pretty badass.When he's not coding new features like News Feed, a once-controversial ticker of updates...
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What These 14 Successful People Do To Stop Stressing Out
There are some sure fire ways to reduce stress: sleep more, laugh more, eat better, exercise often. But for some leaders, it takes week-long vacations every few months or even sticking their bare feet...
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The 25 Most Expensive Domain Names Of All Time
A few weeks ago, Investing.com was sold for a whopping $2.45 million. But that's not even close to the highest price someone's paid for a domain name.We collaborated with DN Journal and put together a...
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17 Of The Most Viral Facebook Photos In History (FB)
Which photos have gone the most viral?We turned to Likester, a social-media analytics company that tracks Facebook engagement. It has tracked more than 10 million Facebook photos, tallying the number...
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Extroverts Are Surprisingly Bad At Sales
You'd expect that the best salespeople would be the most outgoing, people that love talking to others and are very good at it. According to Wharton Professor Adam Grant, that's actually not the...
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57 Behavioral Biases That Make Us Think Irrationally
We all view the world through different lenses. This has to do with our upbringing, our collective experiences, and our subconscious behavioral biases. Until we take a deep look into why we see the...
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How To Actually Achieve Your Goals In 2013
If you're a left-brained thinker who behaves in a calm, focused manner, read another article. You already think rationally, schedule fastidiously, document your objectives clearly, and check them off...
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Ideas Are Worthless When They're Just Sitting In Your Head
Ideas. They bubble up all day long, when we're sitting at stoplights or standing in line for our mocha-lotta-frappa-no-whip concoctions. And, I've noticed, the idea supply chain goes into overdrive...
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The Next Generation Of Big Auto CEOs Is On The Horizon
The past few years have been difficult for the auto industry. The financial crisis, bailouts, and economic weakness have made those executives who have survived look all the more impressive.A few stand...
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Mark Cuban's Novel Income Tax Proposal Is The Exact Opposite Of What Most...
Typical economic policy is fairly straightforward: Spend more and cut taxes when the economy is weak. Hike taxes only when we've recovered.During a Reddit Ask Me Anything session, billionaire Mark...
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The Best Of Everything In 2012
We're almost at the end of the year 2012, and what a year it's been.Facebook finally went public, private spacecraft entered outer space, and humans broke the sound barrier without the aid of machines...
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MARK CUBAN: Here's What You Need To Know Before Starting A Business
Mark Cuban has taken to Reddit to answer questions on everything from the NBA, to his famous confrontation with ESPN talking head Skip Bayless, to his unconventional ideas on tax policy. He also gave...
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This Chilling Economic Report Is Getting Passed Around By CEOs
Over an early-morning coffee with the chief executive of a FTSE 100 business last week, talk turned to the outlook for 2013. Where I had expected some guarded optimism, instead I heard a chilling...
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15 Famous Child Geniuses
In the debate over IQ vs. hard work, there's an ongoing discussion about how much perceived talent can be traced back to genetics. For most of the population, the line is blurry. But in some cases,...
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Here's Proof That Most Pundits Don't Know What They're Talking About
Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman takes down pundits (as well as financial advisors, amateur investors, and pretty much everyone) in his book Thinking, Fast And Slow.See, all of these people are prone to...
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Big Changes Are Coming For The US Healthcare System
We've already pulled some highlights from our extended conversation with Cleveland Clinic CEO Dr. Delos "Toby" Cosgrove on consolidation, cutting costs, and how health care will be disrupted.There was...
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What Harvard Business School Actually Does For You
Mod Note (Andy): This is a syndication from ryanallis.comThe admissions department at Harvard Business School asked me to write a reflection on my first semester for the Class of 2015 pre-matriculation...
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