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Therese Huston, The New York Times, October 17, 2014 Women are more focused on finding common ground and collaborating. But there’s another benefit to having more women in positions of power. Neuroscientists have uncovered evidence suggesting that,...
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Shana Lynch, Insights, October 16, 2014 Lawrence Wein, the Jeffrey S. Skoll Professor of Management Science at Stanford Graduate School of Business, applies complex mathematical equations to disaster scenarios — calculating the odds of survival from toxic milk to...
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Amy Rees Anderson, Forbes, October 15, 2014 Fear of failure is said to be the greatest barrier to one’s success, which makes total sense given that our fear of failure is what stops us from making attempts in the first place. Yet, can anyone blame us for...
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Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, October 15, 2014 At his company’s annual customer conference, Marc Benioff used his platform to push philanthropic causes, not business software. The question is whether his insistence on placing philanthropy front and center...
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Maria Popova, Brain Pickings, October 14, 2014 This article discusses Hannah Arendt’s The Life of the Mind, an expansion on the lecture Arendt gave at the prestigious Gifford Lectures in 1973 which explores the crucial difference between truth and...
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Marilyn Marchione, Associated Press, October 13, 2014 How did it happen? That’s the big question as federal health officials investigate the case of a Dallas health worker who treated an Ebola patient and ended up with the disease herself. The situation...