Bad news—of a very mild variety—for anyone with a couple billion tucked away in the underground lair out back: Living a truly posh lifestyle has gotten juuust a bit pricier over the last 12 months. Our basket of 40 luxury goods is up 2% since last year, nearly half a point above the increase from … Continue reading What Does It Cost To Live Like The Richest People In The World – Andrea Murphy
Category: Business Leadership/Strategies
5 Ways To Go From Being A Good Boss To A Great Boss – Karlyn Borysenko
There are a lot of bad bosses out there - that's no surprise. In fact, 65% of Americans would choose to fire their boss over getting a pay raise. But what gets lost in the midst of trying to stop an awful lot of bad behaviors is the fact that there are a fair number … Continue reading 5 Ways To Go From Being A Good Boss To A Great Boss – Karlyn Borysenko
4 Millennials Describe How The Great Recession Shaped Their Lives – Kristin Stoller
Call it the tale of two stereotypes. In one, Millennials are job-hopping crypto-crazed maniacs who would rather buy bitcoin than bonds. In the other, they’re a generation so scarred by the Great Recession that they cling to any chance for job security and keep their money (what little they have left after student loan payments) … Continue reading 4 Millennials Describe How The Great Recession Shaped Their Lives – Kristin Stoller
Tech Billionaires Benioff, Dorsey Square Off Over How To Deal With Homelessness – Lauren Gensler
Billionaire technology titans Marc Benioff and Jack Dorsey don't exactly see eye to eye on how to fix the homeless problem plaguing San Francisco. The pair took to Twitter on Friday to voice their opposing viewpoints on a ballot measure before San Francisco voters this November called Proposition C, which would tax local businesses to raise money in support … Continue reading Tech Billionaires Benioff, Dorsey Square Off Over How To Deal With Homelessness – Lauren Gensler
The High Risk High Reward World of Selling Stuff on Amazon – Lydia DePillis
When Nida Kazmi got laid off from her job as a product manager at Bloomberg two years ago, she came up with a fallback plan: Selling stuff on Amazon. She chose stackable baby formula dispensers because the category didn't seem to have much competition, and found a supplier in China to manufacture them. After hiring … Continue reading The High Risk High Reward World of Selling Stuff on Amazon – Lydia DePillis
The Walt Disney Of Retail: Meet The Billionaire Building The Malls Of The Future – Samantha Sharf
To understand The Grove, the 575,000-square-foot shopping Xanadu in central Los Angeles, let its owner, Rick Caruso, introduce you to its neighbor, the iconic Farmers Market. He takes you to a butcher stall where, some 80 years ago, Caruso’s father was sweeping the floor. Next he points to a pizza stand founded by Patsy D’Amore, … Continue reading The Walt Disney Of Retail: Meet The Billionaire Building The Malls Of The Future – Samantha Sharf
How to Start a Speech – Conor Neill at TEDx Universidad de Navarra
https://youtu.be/w82a1FT5o88 Subscribe for my new educational videos: http://bit.ly/utube-rhetorical...Check out my TED talk (coming up to 750k views): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXCiv... "The Discipline of Finishing: Conor Neill at TEDxUniversidaddeNavarra" -~-~~-~~~-~~-~- I am Conor Neill. I teach. I share tips. I ask questions. I'm a member of EO, President of Vistage in Spain and teach at IESE Business School. … Continue reading How to Start a Speech – Conor Neill at TEDx Universidad de Navarra
Three Behaviors That Can Help You Mature From Boss To Leader – Chris Myers
One of the most embarrassing mistakes I made early on at BodeTree was believing that the title of CEO automatically made me a leader. It didn’t. I had power, but had yet to earn my authority. Thought I fancied myself a leader, I was just a boss. It took years of mistakes, struggles, and hard … Continue reading Three Behaviors That Can Help You Mature From Boss To Leader – Chris Myers
The New Atlanta Billionaires Behind An Unlikely Tech Unicorn – Alex Konrad
Two years ago, Ben Chestnut found a crumpled piece of paper in the trunk of his Mercedes GL63 SUV, alongside the muddy shoes and helmets he uses while mountain biking in the hills of northern Georgia. Forgotten there for a year, the paper assessed how much a top private equity firm in New York thought … Continue reading The New Atlanta Billionaires Behind An Unlikely Tech Unicorn – Alex Konrad
Amazon’s HQ2 Could Be Silicon Valley 2, For Better Or Worse – Pete Saunders
Thirteen months into the international derby that is the Amazon HQ2 selection process, it seems the end of the sweepstakes is near. What's happened? What have we learned? What's next? It's been a dizzying year-plus for the giant online retailer. Amazon received 238 proposals last November from cities across North America, each wanting a crack … Continue reading Amazon’s HQ2 Could Be Silicon Valley 2, For Better Or Worse – Pete Saunders