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Discover top ideas and strategies from today’s leading business voices.

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5mins
“There’s a sense of crisis today that we did not have in the 1980’s or 90’s” — economist Tyler Cowen on progress in America.
John Templeton Foundation
automated mcdonalds
The automated McDonald's has a staff comparable to other stores. But the crew members are all focused on making and packaging orders instead of delivering them.
boredom
When boredom creeps in, many of us turn to social media. But that may be preventing us from reaching a transformative level of boredom.
There is no sure-fire formula for success, but you can be better prepared to create your own.
learning and development strategy
Crafting an effective learning and development strategy can be challenging. Here are five key considerations.
The concept of burnout is nothing new. But there are ways to prevent burnout and promote greater engagement with work. 
The shift from steam to electricity was inevitable — but some foresaw it earlier than others.
cultivated meat
It will be able to produce 22 million pounds of cultivated meat annually.
We might be dining on insect-based Christmas pies with robot-harvested algae on the side.
Some analysts predict that Amazon's revenue will double over the next five years.
Million Stories
Critical Thinking Training
From honing the art of perception to checking cognitive biases, here are a few techniques employees can learn in critical thinking training. 
The media sells bad news, but scientific evidence shows that we are making progress toward a greener planet.
As far as we know, it's only happened once to one unlucky person in Oklahoma.
Nearshoring may be the manufacturing model of the future.
Million Stories
peer mentoring
When organized effectively, peer mentoring programs can offer substantial benefits for organizations and their employees.
11mins
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. That old adage roughly sums up the idea of antifragility, a term coined by the statistician and writer Nassim Taleb. The term refers […]
The AI is helping Twitter users plot movies, design meal plans, and more.
transfer of learning
Without a solid understanding of the factors that affect the transfer of learning, the gulf between training and job performance is difficult to bridge.