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How Top Entrepreneurs Pick Perfect Store Locations - Inc.com (No paywall)
The female founders behind Van Leeuwen Ice Cream, Levain Bakery, and Glowbar share their playbooks for retail expansion.
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The Real Reading Crisis Involves the Kids Who Don’t Have Phones
It’s not the pandemic. It’s not (only) the Devices. So what causes the “decline by 9”?
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Can Turning Office Towers Into Apartments Save Downtowns? - The New Yorker (No paywall)
Nathan Berman has helped rescue Manhattan’s financial district from a “doom loop” by carving attractive living spaces from hulking buildings that once housed fields of cubicles.
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What’s it like to be CEO? In a word, lonely—and you might not know for years, or decades, whether you did a good job - Fortune (No paywall)
Being CEO is like being alone in a crowd: you are rarely physically alone and yet at times you can feel like the only person on the planet.
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How countries rank by military spending - The Economist (No paywall)
Our analysis shows how NATO allies match up against their rivals
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The movement of capital globally is in decline - The Economist (No paywall)
Geopolitics is altering its trajectory
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Opinion | A Year on Ozempic Taught Me We’re Thinking About Obesity All Wrong
Now is our chance to rethink the centuries-old stories we’ve told about obesity and weight loss.
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Why Territorial Managers Stifle Innovation -- and What to Do About It
The spring 2024 issue's special report looks at how to take advantage of market opportunities in the digital space, and provides advice on building culture and friendships at work; maximizing the benefits of LLMs, corporate venture capital initiatives, and innovation contests; and scaling automation and digital health platform.
The spring 2024 issue's special report looks at how to take advantage of market opportunities in the digital space, and provides advice on building culture and friendships at work; maximizing the benefits of LLMs, corporate venture capital initiatives, and innovation contests; and scaling automation and digital health platform.
Dilip has been working hard on a game-changing idea for a new product. But when he excitedly approaches his boss to share it and get approval for further development and testing, his proposal is quickly rejected. Instead of offering constructive feedback on how to make the idea workable, his boss vaguely refers to a lack of budget and discourages Dilip from pursuing any further ideas.
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How the Smartest CEOs Start
The spring 2024 issue’s special report looks at how to take advantage of market opportunities in the digital space, and provides advice on building culture and friendships at work; maximizing the benefits of LLMs, corporate venture capital initiatives, and innovation contests; and scaling automation and digital health platform.
The spring 2024 issue’s special report looks at how to take advantage of market opportunities in the digital space, and provides advice on building culture and friendships at work; maximizing the benefits of LLMs, corporate venture capital initiatives, and innovation contests; and scaling automation and digital health platform.
The hard truth is that it is impossible to answer the final question definitively. There is no answer that is always right, all of the time. Unfortunately, the CEO role is full of paradoxes, contradictions, and judgment calls — especially when you’re in transition.
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'The Boys' Season 4 is Copying Marvel's Worst Idea
The Boys has never been a subtle show, and a group of commodified, corporate superheroes who star in a blockbuster film franchise was an obvious callout of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But once it became a success, The Boys could only capitalize on its momentum by becoming what it ruthlessly mocks: a franchise.
With Season 4 only a few weeks away, we now have our first glimpse of what’s in store. Ironically, it seems like the MCU similarities are only growing, as characters from The Boys’ first spinoff have now circled back to appear in the main show. Check out The Boys Season 4 trailer below.
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