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If your business strategy includes financial targets, sales goals, or mission statements, you're doing it all wrong. Ever wonder why your company's objectives seem so elusive and your strategy so hard to deliver on

If your business strategy includes financial targets, sales goals, or mission statements, you're doing it all wrong.

(PhysOrg.com) -- Converting sunlight into electricity is not economically attractive because of the high cost of solar cells, but a recent, purely optical approach to improving luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) may ease the problem, according to researchers at Argonne National Laboratories and Penn State.

That's just one of the myths debunked in a new paper on the climate.

As a young mathematician in the 1950s, Don Newman taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology alongside rising star and Nobel-laureate-to-be John Nash. Newman had been struggling to solve a particular math problem: “I was ...

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Marketing managers for major orchestras had always assumed that convincing people to give the symphony a try was the key to gaining subscribers. "Get people through the doors!" was their mantra, assuming that the sheer beauty of the music would lure them back. But when they actually studied the numbers, they discovered that getting new people wasn't the problem.

$1.3 million in prize money went out to two winners of the Wendy Schmidt Oil Recovery X Challenge, both of which far exceeded the current standard of oil cleanup technology. $1.3 million in prize money was awarded to two teams today in New York, winners of the Wendy Schmidt Oil Cleanup X Challenge

To break out of the mismanaged systems in which we find ourselves, we could turn to robots, whose cold logic would override our selfish needs. Or we could turn to social entrepreneurs, who work outside the system to find new solutions. A few years ago in the wake of the failure of governments to sign an international agreement to reduce greenhouse gases in Copenhagen, we fell into a discussion on fixing the system: Let’s get computers to do it for us.

(PhysOrg.com) -- For years, scientists have dealt with the problem of trying to increase the efficiency and drive down the cost of solar cells. Now researchers have hit upon a new idea—trying to give the light collected by solar cells a bit of 'amnesia.'

In 2009, prescription drug abuse killed more people than automobile accidents. As Armen Keteyian reports, a big part of the problem is found in the pharmacies that distribute the powerful medications no questions asked.

Method has proved there is no such thing as a low-interest product category, just low-interest brands. Attracting attention in a traditionally low-interest category like soap or underwear just takes a bit more thought than, say, beer or cellphones. We admit it: We were never passionate about cleaning before we launched Method

Take a look around you. Are you surrounded by clean, uncluttered space or piles of paper, old magazines, dirty coffee cups and little items begging for a home? If clutter has taken over your space, think about how it makes you feel.

The founders of the BlogWorld & New Media Expo talk about why businesses can no longer ignore social media.

Author John Warrillow explains the difference between the "dissociative architect" and "sleeves-rolled-up" types of leaders. Which leadership style is best? A friend of mine described the experience of slipping into a "K-hole" after partying on too much ketamine, a medical anaesthetic that can be snorted as a drug.