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Strategy retreat: Two words that make even the toughest leaders cringe. Here's how to make the process less painful...and maybe even a little fun. It's only spring, but you're probably already thinking about next year.

Whether participants were given a placebo or an antibiotic, sinus infections went away after 10 days

A neuroscience technology breakthrough at the University of California, Berkeley, has major implications for the future of branding and marketing. It finally happened. Neuroscience technology can now reliably read our minds.

The best reason to buy tablets for your team? No more death by PowerPoint.

The best reason to buy tablets for your team? No more death by PowerPoint. PowerPoint has been around for a quarter century.

Co-founder Marc Nager reveals why the Startup Weekend model fosters the most innovative ideas. Startup Weekend is simply an event that challenges teams to start a company in one weekend

"Bastille Day/Liberty Festival at Brasserie Les Halles in Washington, D.C. It was, perhaps, the only place in Washington, D.C.

"Bastille Day/Liberty Festival at Brasserie Les Halles in Washington, D.C. It was, perhaps, the only place in Washington, D.C. that celebrated Bastille Day in a big way," said photographer Elvert Barnes.

"A couple of years I was involved with something called the Twitter Photo Challenge. Every week there'd be a new topic, and the participants had to produce a photo for that topic during the following seven days," said photographer Jo Christian Oterhals.

"A couple of years I was involved with something called the Twitter Photo Challenge. Every week there'd be a new topic, and the participants had to produce a photo for that topic during the following seven days," said photographer Jo Christian Oterhals.

In 1961 Stanley Milgram embarked on a research program that would change psychology forever. Fueled by a desire to understand how ordinary Germans had managed to participate in the horrors of the Holocaust, Milgram decided to investigate when and why people obey authority. To do so, he developed an ingenious experimental paradigm that revealed the surprising degree to which ordinary individuals are willing to inflict pain on others.

Good comedians are usually good presenters. So can doing stand-up help close the deal?

Think the annual arts fest in the Nevada desert is nothing more than a week-long bacchanal? Think again. It's a a master class in how to create awesomeness

(Hint: You're already doing it just by reading this.) Here's a novel way to increase productivity: Try browsing the Internet.

Continuing with the tradition from last three years, I will occasionally post interviews with some of the participants of the ScienceOnline2011 conference that was held in the Research Triangle Park, NC back in January 2011. [More]