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An Alternative To Plastic, Grown From Mushrooms

Evocative is taking on non-biodegradable and toxic polystyrene by mixing agricultural products with a fungus. Can it compete when it has to grow a product instead of churning it out from a factory?

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Video: Adopting 12 children with special needs

A couple in Bayside, N.Y., discuss their life-changing decision to adopt 12 children with special needs after a cancer scare left them grateful for the time they didn't think they'd have.

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The Method Method Of Creating And Nurturing Amazing Corporate Culture

If a strong, inspiring corporate culture is greater than the sum of its parts, is it worthwhile--or even possible--to bother with the building blocks? In a Fast Company exclusive book excerpt, the founders of Method share how they kept their corporate culture vibrant as their business expanded exponentially

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The Bully Within

We’ve all witnessed or experienced the affects of bullying in children, but adults are not immune to bullying characteristics. An adult bully will attempt to gain power over another person, and make himself or herself the dominant adult

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Why I Fired My Biggest Client

How one Inc. 5,000 CEO coped with losing his largest customer, and why it helped his company grow Losing a big client can spell disaster for a start-up. For Tiempo Development , it spelled opportunity

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Eric Ries Is A Lean Startup Machine

There's a whole industry devoted to promulgating the myth that all an entrepreneur needs is perseverance, creative genius, and hard work. Ries learned the hard way this isn't true

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Leadership Is About Taking The Long View

We have become chained to a short-term outlook--leaving America to fall behind in the global marketplace. We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from the 20th Anniversary edition of On Becoming A Leader (1989) by Warren Bennis.

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Man Fired for Using Gun to Foil Robbery

A Walgreens pharmacist fires a gun, he says, in self-defense, and then is fired. A Michigan pharmacist is suing Walgreens after the chain fired him for shooting a concealed weapon during a break in

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Gamer Heal Thyself With Jane McGonigal’s SuperBetter

When Jane McGonigal suffered a traumatic brain injury in 2009, she created a game, SuperBetter, to help herself heal. Today, she unveiled a new platform, SuperBetter, to help others cure what ails, from obesity to a broken leg to addiction. Deeply impacted by a traumatic brain injury in 2009, and struggling with traditional therapy, Jane McGonigal created a game--SuperBetter--to help heal herself

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The Merit Of Slow Capital

If you going to ask for a handout, do so carefully and deliberately. You don't want to just jump into a relationship with an investor.

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