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5 things I learned about leadership as I grew my multimillion dollar business

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Jennifer Quigley Jones

The silent manipulations that often go unnoticed, according to a Harvard law professor

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Next Big Idea Club

First connections can impact your career trajectory

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The Conversation

What Machiavelli and St. Francis can tell us about the motivations of CEOs

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The Conversation

Our built environment doesn’t have to be so depressing

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Andy Boenau

A slimmer iPhone and new Apple Watches: What to expect from Apple’s September 9 launch event

Apple holds several events throughout the year, but none is as vital to the company’s bottom line as its annual one in September. That’s when Apple...

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Michael Grothaus

Adding more green spaces to a college campus boosts students’ mental health

Stress on college students can be palpable, and it hits them from every direction: academic challenges, social pressures, and financial burdens,...

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The Conversation

AI weather forecasting has reached a turning point that could prove valuable for farmers

For farmers, every planting decision carries risks, and many of those risks are increasing with climate change. One of the most consequential is...

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The Conversation

19 questions with MillerKnoll CEO Andi Owen, who is done talking about return to office

You know MillerKnoll as one of the few great American design brands. Or perhaps, a mega brand of design brands including Design Within Reach, Hay,...

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Mark Wilson

This week in business: Markets stumble, gold glitters, and burgers get cheaper

Labor Day usually marks the slowdown. Not this year. From corner offices to checkout lines, businesses are scrambling as shaky markets test prices,...

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Emily Price

5 tips to fix meetings that waste time

Time and attention have become the most depleted resource in the modern workplace. Back-to-back meetings, calendar congestion, and constant...

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Samantha Wasserman

Kalshi found a backdoor to sports gambling, and is throwing it open to everyone

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Jay Willis

Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to book authors to settle AI copyright suit

Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic has agreed to pay a record-setting $1.5 billion to a group of book authors and publishers in order to...

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Sarah Bregel

Tylenol maker’s stock dips after report says RFK Jr.’s HHS plans to link the drug to autism

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Sarah Bregel

Robinhood and AppLovin to join the S&P 500, sending shares soaring

Trading app Robinhood Markets, mobile app monetization company AppLovin, and building company Emcor Group, will be added to the S&P 500 later this...

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Sarah Bregel

From Kindle to Kobo and beyond, this free ebook depot will blow your mind

The first time I read The Count of Monte Cristo, I was astounded by how freakin’ cool it all was. Here’s a story about daring prison escapes,...

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Justin Pot

How breaking the habit of saying yes can boost your productivity

We live in a world where workers are doing more varied and complex tasks. And in most instances, they’re doing so at the expense of focus and...

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Donna Mcgeorge

Scrolling on the toilet could raise your risk of hemorrhoids, a new study finds

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Eve Upton-Clark

What exactly is mortgage fraud?

Most types of financial fraud are relatively straightforward: the fraudster uses creative accounting, inflated numbers, or out-and-out lies to...

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Emily Guy Birken

Andreessen Horowitz is not a venture capital fund

I was reading funding news last week, and I came to a big realization: Andreessen Horowitz is not a venture capital fund. A lot of people are...

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Leslie Feinzaig

AI is quietly reshaping the way we talk

TikTok gave us slang like rizz, while X popularized ratio and doomscroll. But according to new research from Florida State University, the newest...

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Victor Dey

Why entrepreneurs need to stop pursuing growth at all costs

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Brad Giles

Why AI should adapt to doctors, not the other way around 

Every day, we hear about new algorithms, groundbreaking analyses, and the potential for AI to revolutionize patient care. Yet, for many physicians...

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Dan Cane

How AI is creating a crisis of business sameness

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Faisal Hoque

This new cutting-edge sunscreen is made from pollen—and doesn’t hurt the ocean

When you apply sunscreen at the beach, it doesn’t necessarily stay on your skin. Some of that sunscreen can wash off when you swim, and the...

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Kristin Toussaint

‘The ultimate design by committee’: How Pentagram crafted Austin’s new logo

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Grace Snelling

The foldable smartphone’s moment is finally arriving

Hello once again and thanks for spending time with Fast Company’s Plugged In. Fifteen years into the era defined by the iPhone, a question still...

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Harry Mccracken

September’s blood corn moon: When, where, and how to watch this celestial marvel

There’s a mountain of evidence that having a sense of purpose is correlated with feeling happy. And while an inanimate object such as the moon...

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Shannon Cudd

Tesla desperately needs a new story

Tesla hasn’t enjoyed a lot of good news lately. Just the last few days have brought news of the electric car-maker’s dimming sales in...

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Rob Walker

The new design imperative

As the world muddles its way through this period of profound uncertainty, design must assume yet another mandate. Well beyond surface aesthetics...

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Lisa Gralnek

TikTok is obsessed with this guy who bought an abandoned golf course in Maine

Buying an abandoned golf course and restoring it from scratch sounds like a dream for many golf fans. For one man in Maine, that dream is now...

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Eve Upton-Clark

Think this AI-generated Italian teacup on your kid’s phone is nonsense? That’s the point

In the first half of 2025, she racked up over 55 million views on TikTok and 4 million likes, mostly from tweens glued to their cellphones. Not bad...

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Ahead of Apple’s iPhone event next week, here’s how the big smartphones stack up

Apple’s annual iPhone event is happening next week, when the company is expected to unveil a range of new devices that includes its thinnest phone...

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Sam Byford

Why AI Governance is the Key to Unlocking New Opportunities

When you hear “governance,” what pops to mind? We often picture limitations or roadblocks. Yet the opposite is true, particularly with artificial...

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Peter Wang

4 questions to ask before hiring a PR agency

There comes a time in every company’s journey when they need help sharing their story. And choosing the right partner to help tell that story is an...

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Grace Keith Rodriguez

Sabotaging your own professional success? 17 roadblocks to overcome

Every career path has obstacles. Even the most accomplished leaders have faced moments where their goals felt out of reach. What separates the...

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Ofinnegan

Trump administration grounds Biden’s airline payout plan

The Trump administration is backtracking on a plan that would have forced airlines to give passengers cash as compensation for late flights. The...

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Taylor Hatmaker

A revolution is brewing in how you save, spend, and invest

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Michael Tannenbaum

Google fined $3.5 billion by European Union over ad tech practices

European Union regulators on Friday hit Google with a 2.95 billion euro ($3.5 billion) fine for breaching the bloc’s competition rules by favoring...

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How lawsuits over the 2020 election haven’t slowed Fox News dominance

Twice recently, the people who run Fox News were reminded of their biggest nightmare. The conservative network Newsmax’s $67 million...

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Associated Press

ICE detains 450 workers at Hyundai’s Georgia plant and South Korean government responds

South Korea on Friday expressed “concern and regret” over a major U.S. immigration raid at a sprawling Georgia site where South Korean auto company...

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U.S. may have gained 80,000 jobs in August, signaling a cooling job market

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August jobs report: hiring stalls with unemployment up to 4.3%

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As summers grow deadlier and electric bills surge, here’s what to know about utility shutoffs

As the cost of electricity outpaces inflation and summers grow deadlier, consumer advocates are sounding alarms about the risks to low-income...

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Associated Press

Tributes to Giorgio Armani pour in from Anna Wintour, Samuel L. Jackson, Donatella Versace, and more

Italian fashion designer Giorgio Armani’s work spanned the worlds of celebrity, fashion and power. His death announced Thursday at age 91 has...

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Global markets surge as Wall Street sets another record, ahead of hopes for cuts to U.S. interest rates

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Associated Press

Elon Musk’s $1 trillion Tesla pay package: Here are the major caveats

The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, stands to get a lot richer in the decade ahead—perhaps. That’s because his largest and only publicly traded...

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Michael Grothaus

Lululemon stock price is crashing today: Trump’s tariffs and de minimis change are part of the reason why

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Michael Grothaus

China’s EV influence is spreading globally, except to the U.S. and Canada. Here’s why

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The Conversation

Why LeBron James is hosting a new show for the employment brand Indeed

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Jeff Beer