Adam Galinsky: How to speak up for yourself
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The word according to The Economist is that the world’s most valuable firm may be past its prime. Indeed, stiffer competition in smartphones and tablets from the likes of Samsung has spooked investors in Apple. The two factors that have contributed largely to Apple’s decline, namely the death of Steve Jobs and Apple’s fantastic profit margins…

I was giving a commencement speech a number of years ago at a university where several students were getting their degrees of varying levels, and I could tell my first comment took the parents as well as many of the graduates completely by surprise. I said, “I don’t want you to try to live a…

In this inspiring and universally applicable Ted Talk, Julian Treasure, author of the book Sound Business and chair of the Sound Agency, shines the spotlight on the immeasurable value of sound. Treasure argues that in an increasingly noisy world we are losing our ability to listen effectively. In fact, on average, Treasure indicates that we…

According to the Economist, there can be few better places to talk about complexity than Vienna. In the capital of the most complicated political organisation ever to exist, hundreds of management enthusiasts converged recently to debate the subject of complexity. In their discussions, they were preoccupied with two points: that business is more complicated than ever before;…

The Outliers Inn: “Where Do We Go From Here?” A Summary for People Who Were There and Still Aren’t Sure What Happened The Gang Attempts Slam Poetry (With Mixed Results)JP and Mule kicked things off by doing what any serious business podcast does: planning to perform slam poetry inspired by WKRP in Cincinnati and The…

We test three prevailing hypotheses about American business Concerns about the health of American business are many and varied. Chief executives are chastised for their apparent short-termism. Their companies are berated for fetishising shareholders over everyone and everything else. Elon Musk, boss of Tesla, a maker of electric cars, grumbles about a surfeit of business-school…