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Hit a performance wall? Here are four ways to break through it.
Read More »Airbnb Clones Making 2012 The Year Of Peer-To-Peer Accommodations
Last year saw the explosion of deals companies trying to duplicate the success of first-mover Groupon.
Read More »Catching Up With Kiva
Kiva's director of social performance illuminates how the nonprofit has confronted naysayers as it expands its microlending to the U.S.
Read More »3 Timeless Parables For Regaining Perspective
If you are like me, sometimes I am so busy trying to catch up, stay even, or take the lead that I lose perspective. When things are going well, I am on top of the world.
Read More »Nearly Extinct Primate Rediscovered in Borneo [Video]
Researchers working on the island of Borneo have discovered two tiny new populations of Miller’s grizzled langurs ( Presbytis hosei canicrus ), one of the world’s 25 most endangered primates. The species is so rare that it has probably disappeared from all of its previously known habitats, which have been almost completely logged and burned out of existence. The langur was last observed in 2008 ( pdf ) in an isolated patch of mangrove forest on the banks of the Baai River which flows through Borneo’s Sangkulirang Peninsula, when just five of the primates were found
Read More »Charting a Course for Brazil’s Rivers and Hydropower
Brazil boasts the industrialized world's most renewable energy mix. To maintain this status while growing its electricity system to serve millions of new customers, the country is planning a major expansion of hydroelectric power in the Amazon Basin -- one of the most important ecological systems in the world. [More]
Read More »The Smartest Dumb Thing I Ever Did
Caterina Fake, Chip Conley, Dan Ariely, Susan Gregg Koger, and others on their biggest--and most brilliant--mistakes. Success is never inevitable: Seemingly smart decisions often turn out to be disastrous, and sometimes what appear to be the worst decisions turn out to be pivotal to eventual success.
Read More »4 Traits of Great Leaders
Four easy-to-master traits from great leaders such as John F. Kennedy, Sam Budnyk, and Gene Kranz. It is often said that hindsight is 20/20.
Read More »Video: Posture problems linked to cell phones
Smartphones help us connect with the world, but are we bending too much to accommodate them? "CBS This Morning" contributor Lee Woodruff reports on the link between cell phones and posture problems.
Read More »Outsourcing Don’ts Learned From Apple
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Read More »Internet Set for Wednesday Shutdown
Wikipedia, Reddit, and a host of other popular sites are gearing up for a total blackout on January 18 in protest of the controversial anti-piracy legislation. In the battle between Hollywood and Silicon Valley, the tech world seems to be gaining ground. In a major protest against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act of 2011 (PIPA), a number of high-profile sites are planning a total shutdown for January 18
Read More »The perfect liquid — now even more perfect
Ultra hot quark-gluon-plasma, generated by heavy-ion collisions in particle accelerators, is supposed to be the "most perfect fluid" in the world. Previous theories imposed a limit on how "liquid" fluids can be
Read More »Why You’re Not Happy
Starting a business can be rewarding but it's hardly the road to happiness. Seven reasons why you're still unhappy. Sixty-two percent of Bulgarians say they are “not very” happy or “not at all” happy
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