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How’s Work Today?

How’s Work Today?

Radically different but completely the same  The conversations that follow between a writer and interviewee have been selected for their relevance to the new world of work and the future of work. The conversations were real. They’ve been edited for focus and...
Moving Past Being Upset

Moving Past Being Upset

HR departments have to help executives manage new expectations Workers — current workers, former workers, wannabe workers — got most of the attention as the workplace evolved during the depths of the pandemic and the sputtering, lurching recovery that followed. That’s...
Drowning In Our Passion For Fashion

Drowning In Our Passion For Fashion

How Circular Marketing Brings Hope In Chile’s Atacama Desert, more than 100,000 tons of clothing, including never-worn pieces with sales tags still attached, lie in heaps that stretch for miles.   “It’s not a landfill,” Alexis Carreno, the dumpsite...
To Be Sustainable Is So Attainable

To Be Sustainable Is So Attainable

Talk about getting pulled in opposite directions.Welcome to torture, C-suite style. You’re a CEO in 1992 and your annoying assistant keeps bringing up something called carbon footprint, but you haven’t had a chance to check the HQ lobby carpet for it because...
Giving Life to Ideas

Giving Life to Ideas

When venture capital rains down, the smallest seed of an idea can become a beanstalk to the sky. They talk about burn rate and clawback and deal flow and exit velocity. They work in nondescript buildings, undersized companies of 10 to 20, yet capable of generating...
Risk & Reward

Risk & Reward

(Well, mostly risk) For our readers who’d like to brush up on A(c) = -u”(c)/u’9(c) or R(c) =-cu”/(c)/u’(c) or even portfolio theory as methods of determining one’s level of risk aversion, with apologies, that’s not what we’ll be doing here. As much as we’d like to get...