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The role of leadership in organizations has undergone significant  transformation in the past five years. As a result, what leaders have relied on in the past decade to drive results and enhance performance will not be enough to achieve success in the coming decade. Recent research from global consulting firms...

Carlos Slim, Latin America's wealthiest individual, has significantly increased his ownership in U.S. oil and gas producer Talos Energy Inc. following the unexpected resignation of the company's founder and CEO, which led to a decline in its stock value. Through his investment firm, Control Empresarial de Capitales, Slim acquired around...

Just hours before their season opener against the Cleveland Browns, the Dallas Cowboys finalized a record-setting contract extension with quarterback Dak Prescott. Reports indicate that Prescott has signed a four-year, $240 million deal, making him the highest-paid player in NFL history. The agreement, which was reached just 90 minutes before...

Pooling, cleaning and making sense of data will make us healthier and will give us longevity. Above all, exponential technologies will broaden access to healthcare, progressively including the entire world population, thanks to new capabilities and dramatically lower costs. The advantages of tech need to be assessed from the margin...

A recent survey conducted by the Mainichi Shimbun and Tokyo-based IT firm Penmark Inc. reveals that two out of three university students in Japan are interested in pursuing careers abroad, indicating a significant interest in foreign opportunities. The online survey, conducted between July 4 and 14, gathered responses from 1,116...

Burnout, defined by the World Health Organization in 2019 as an "occupational phenomenon" marked by exhaustion, decreased professional effectiveness, and feelings of negativity or detachment from one’s job, remains a significant concern in the modern workforce. According to Inc.'s 2024 CEO survey, burnout was the most prevalent challenge, with 49%...

CEOs are expected to supervise and take stock of the performance of employees periodically. One-to-one physical interactions, phone calls, review meetings etc. are some occasions and ways CEOs update themselves on work front. During such interactions, many a times, they communicate with a mindset to “command and control” employees, and...

You and I both know we are good decision makers, and it is everyone else that has a problem, right? Well, we are partly right. It’s not you or me that is the problem, its that making decisions gets more and more complex as more people become involved, even if...

In half of the world's countries, freshwater ecosystems, including rivers, lakes, and aquifers, are in decline. River flows have significantly diminished, surface water bodies are shrinking or disappearing, pollution levels are rising, and water management efforts are falling short. These alarming trends are detailed in three reports released today by...

The affluent city of Jackson, Wyoming, has secured a $5.5 million grant from the federal government to broaden its electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure. The announcement, made by the Biden administration on Tuesday, highlighted Jackson and its regional partners in Teton County as recipients of this funding under the Infrastructure...