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Wal-Mart Thinks It Can Fix India's Insanely Bureaucratic Food Supply System
Check ou this quote from the Wall Street Journal (Bad Roads, Red Tape, Burly Thugs Slow Wal-Mart’s Passage in India, Jan 11):In the world of perishable goods perishing, India has few rivals. Lacking...
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Whole Foods Founder Says Too Many Companies Get Capitalism Wrong
Whole Foods' rise has been unique in many ways. It's taken a concept that was once considered very niche—a focus on local and organic food—and turned it into a multi-billion-dollar international...
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These Were The Most Successful Projects On Kickstarter Last Year [CHART]
Last year more than 18,000 projects were successfully funded on Kickstarter, the largest crowdfunding website.A total of $320m was contributed by 2.2m people, making possible creative projects...
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Chrysler CEO: Building Cars In China 'Makes Us Stronger At Home'
In an interview with NPR broadcast this morning, Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne defended the decision to move production of cars for foreign markets to those locales.Marchionne, who is also CEO of...
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Everything You Need To Know About Productivity
In today’s busy world, we seem to be obsessed with the idea of “productivity” and “work hacks”.It’s easy to see why: being able to get more done allows us to get ahead in life, and even gives us more...
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Google's Larry Page Talks About His Management Philosophy
Google has never behaved like other companies: Its wildly successful search ad business means that it never has to. In an interview with Wired, CEO Larry Page describes an approach that focuses not on...
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Wendy's Can't Seem To Get Breakfast Right
Wendy's can't seem to get breakfast right."Bottom line, Wendy’s hasn’t found a way to make breakfast profitable," wrote Scott Hume at Burger Business, who cited Wendy's CEO Emil Brolick's presentation...
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How To Delegate Responsibility To Other People
Scaling a business is an extremely nuanced process: It takes a brilliant strategy, smart delegation and tons of hard work. To gain some insight on how to pull this off, we spoke with Harvard Lecturer...
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6 Unconventional Strategies I Used To Succeed On Wall Street
If you are good at math, you’ll be successful on Wall Street. So the saying goes. But how then does one account for people like me? A music major that never set foot in a finance class in college and...
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Employee Engagement Has To Be At The Top Of Your To-Do List
Companies that want to boost employee engagement sometimes can't make their efforts stick. These businesses seek the benefits that come from increased engagement -- improved productivity,...
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How The Most Effective People Learn To Read A Room
Learning how to read a room is incredibly difficult. Yet we've all seen people who can do it, who manage to sense how people relate to each other, and use it to get things done.Strategy+Business...
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How To Talk About Your Weaknesses In An Interview
When someone asks you, in an interview, “What is your weakness?” do not give a B.S. answer. Saying something like, “I pay too much attention to detail” is actually a terrible answer for someone who is...
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What It's Like Founding A Tech Startup In Africa
The road for a start-up in Africa can be like a video game -- each time a player slays a monster, a larger one appears. Whether it is roadblocks imposed by regulators, the lack of a viable workforce or...
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Feeling Like You Don't Belong In Your Career Is A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
From the latest issue of my newsletter, The Brilliant Report:“This week I blogged about a new study that suggests one reason why there are so few women in STEM fields (science, technology, engineering,...
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Being Married Helps Professors Get Ahead, But Only If They're Male
When I was a graduate student in history, I loved to read the acknowledgements sections of books. If you looked carefully, all the trade secrets kept within the small, competitive field were revealed,...
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17 Things You Need To Consider Before Accepting Your Next Job
When I graduated from Brown, I had a very limited conception of jobs, careers, and what I wanted to do. Basically, I figured I should do some kind of thought work that paid well, but I wasn’t sure...
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Your Attitude Determines Whether Or Not You'll Succeed
The results of your actions have little to do with what you are actually doing and almost everything to do with your attitude.Which is ironic because we spend most of our time creating lists and...
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This Entrepreneur Says There's A Much Simpler Way To Solve Global Poverty
Startup founders are known to go to extreme lengths to get their idea off the ground — working 90-hour weeks, taking huge financial risks, and putting their careers on the line. Becky Straw did all of...
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To Live Like A Middle Class Citizen In NYC, You Have To Make At Least $80,000
The New York Times set out to define what "middle class" means in Manhattan.It points out that Manhattan is one of the only places in the world where a housing project can sit next to a luxury...
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The Investigation Into Boeing's Dreamliner Batteries Just Got Even More...
While Boeing hurries to find what caused lithium ion batteries in its Dreamliner jets to catch fire, and get back in the air after being grounded last week, a new report from The National...
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