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Inside WeightWatchers’s fight to survive the Ozempic era
Sima Sistani’s relationship with WeightWatchers began like that of millions of other customers during the company’s six-decade reign as the world’s leading weight-loss brand. After the birth of her...
View Article10 bonus lists from this year’s Best Workplaces for Innovators winners
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View ArticleThe 3 kinds of intelligence workplaces need to succeed
As a management consultant jetting in and out of hundreds of organizations across four continents, I learned to differentiate what distinguished successful change leaders from those who got...
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The vital role trust will play in the AI-powered future of work
One of my earliest childhood memories is visiting my granddad’s clothes factory in the East End of London, happily sitting in the corner sorting out the boxes of different colored buttons. He knew all...
View ArticleHow to get freelance hiring right
Being business savvy isn’t about keeping every employee you hire. It’s about attracting the right people for your company and empowering them to do their best work. Even if those people are freelance...
View ArticleIn rural Tennessee, these cancer doctors see patients via hologram
On a recent weekday, I stood in front of a phone-booth-sized box—seven feet tall, four feet wide, and two feet deep—talking to a life-sized, three-dimensional image of a doctor who was 2,000 miles...
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Rimowa just shrunk its iconic aluminum suitcase into a chic handbag
In the 1920s, the German luggage maker Rimowa built an aluminum trunk. Over the next decades, the company’s engineers and designers would iterate on its design to create Rimowa’s now iconic product, a...
View ArticleWhy the Female Founders Fund isn’t betting big on AI
When the Female Founders Fund (FFF), a seed stage venture fund that invests exclusively in female-founded companies, was started in 2014, just 2% of venture capital dollars went towards women-led...
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How Bugaboo plans to corner the market on double strollers
Some 25 years ago, a Dutch stroller brand called Bugaboo entered the market with a slightly nutty idea: a luxury stroller. Until then, strollers had been an inexpensive commodity, which made sense....
View ArticleChanging your career? 6 steps to pivoting successfully
If you are like most people, your work life will not follow a straight line. The average person changes careers five to seven times during their working life. I pivoted four times in my career. I went...
View ArticleYour new C-suite leaders might be making things sound worse than they are....
Your organization has just hired a new executive, and they immediately start bad-mouthing the systems you and your colleagues spent years building. You’re a little confused as to how this is meant to...
View ArticleAI won’t replace marketers—but it will make their jobs easier
Like so many industries, the marketing and PR landscape has already been affected by the rise of artificial intelligence. AI can enhance both sectors, making it easier to develop campaigns, and to...
View ArticleLVMH, Kering, and Zegna lead a list of luxury giants that are growing their...
In the face of economic uncertainty, such as consumer caution due to inflation, luxury retail has remained resilient in the U.S market, according to a new report from JLL. In 2023, luxury retail sales...
View ArticleDisney’s unexpected strategy for turning a movie into a global phenomenon
Deadpool & Wolverine is the undisputed champ of the summer blockbuster movie season. Its $1.2 billion in global box office is a direct result of a massive, worldwide marketing campaign that...
View ArticleLouisiana hit with over 390,000 power outages as Hurricane Francine weakens...
Francine weakened Thursday after striking Louisiana as a Category 2 hurricane that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses, sent storm surge rushing into coastal communities...
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AI is confusing. This tool helps you make sense of the tech
A new data visualization tool lets people in creative fields explore their ethical considerations around AI. The Creative AI Magnifier was developed by MANY, a design studio headed by Andrew Shea, who...
View ArticleWhy the “Personal Brand” needs to die
When you hear the word “personal brand,” do you groan? I get it. I’ve helped hundreds of professionals struggling to craft their “personal brand.” They range from founders and executives to managers...
View Article6 lessons in body language leaders can take from the Harris-Trump debate
The first televised presidential debate, between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon in 1960, is ancient history. This week’s clash between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris—like Nixon, an incumbent vice...
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This McLaren P1 made of Lego is a design wonder that drives like a real race car
On a brisk morning at Silverstone Circuit, McLaren F1 star pilot Lando Norris, strapped himself into a car that’s unlike any he’s ever driven before—a full-scale Lego McLaren P1. Almost everything in...
View ArticleResearch shows that funny reviews are a double-edged sword
Consumers may enjoy reading funny or sarcastic online product reviews, but does it influence what they buy? That’s the question my colleagues Susan Mudambi, David Schuff, Ermira Zifla, and I wanted to...
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