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July 12, 2016
Sonos Designed Its New Store To Feel--And Sound--Like Your Home
Sonos is moving into retail with a shop in SoHo that is as much about marketing and R&D as it is about selling smart speakers.
There's something very weird about the empty store I'm standing in. It's not that it's nearly abandoned (in the middle of the bustling SoHo neighborhood in New York, no less) or that the finishing touches are still being fine-tuned in front of me. What's strange is that it hasn't existed until now.
Meet The San Francisco Startup Creating A Future For Polaroid
Two Londoners fell in love with the iconic brand's history. Now they're trying to help make it forward-looking all over again.
When I grab tea with Frederick Blackford at a little corner bar in San Francisco's Hayes Valley neighborhood, the man behind the counter overhears us talking about Polaroid. And it just puts a smile on his face. Unprompted, he explains to us that the brand that made photography instant is not a relic, but alive, well, and cool.
6 Personal Branding Secrets From Drag Queens
Drag queens are experts on perfecting a public image and can offer valuable lessons in crafting your personal brand.
Inspiration can strike in the most confounding ways. For Jackie Huba, it happened when she was channel surfing and landed on RuPaul's Drag Race. Huba, a customer loyalty consultant and speaker who was going through a period of professional boredom and felt "stuck," was captivated by what she saw.
The Secrets Of People Who Manage To Stick To Habit Changes
Want to start or keep a new habit? These masters with long-running streaks can show you how.
In the summer of 1977, a year and a half before I was born, my father made a decision. He was a young professor of religion who wanted to brush up on his Hebrew language skills, which he thought would help his research studying ancient texts. He committed to reading Hebrew for 30 minutes daily.
These Six Companies Are Tackling The Summer Slump In Unique Ways
No one wants to be stuck inside in front of a computer all summer long, so some companies are finding creative ways to get outside.
When the sun is shining and the temperatures rise, the last place many of us want to be is inside an office working. That's why productivity drops and absenteeism rises during summer months, according to a recent study. Tina Hamilton, president of the human resources outsourcing firm myHR Partner calls it "summer slacker syndrome."
How To Build Credibility For Your Startup That Nobody's Heard Of Yet
When it comes to building your reputation from scratch, think big when you set goals but start small when you execute them.
The startup scene is a crowded place no matter what market you're trying to crack. And if you can't build industry credibility fast, you'll probably fail to crack it.
Five Surprising, Science-Backed Ways To Boost Your Creativity
Researchers have found that just staring at the Apple logo may spur creative thought. Here's why.
You might not think of yourself as especially creative. And maybe—right now—you aren't. But a growing body of scientific research suggests that anyone has the ability to become at least a little more creative than they already are, sometimes in surprising ways. Here are a few of the stranger approaches to boosting your creativity.
The Ultimate Guide To Hiring Original Thinkers
Adam Grant, the best-selling author of Originals, shares his secrets to hiring the right people to grow your company.
Bestselling author and Wharton professor Adam Grant has spent years researching and interviewing originals. There's the seasoned chief executive who cusses freely and challenges candidates to apply for jobs by tweeting at her. Or the author who tackles weighty topics like artificial intelligence and virtual reality with stick figure illustrations. And the former spy who founded an airline and is betting on Utah as the next big tech hub. In Originals, Grant shows how to identify, foster, and nurture nonconformists—here he expounds on how to recognize and recruit them in a startup setting.
Three Ways Noncompetitive People Can Still Get Ahead
You don't like to toot your own horn or tear others down—and that's great. Here's how to make your agreeableness a career asset.
Many of us assume that success is all about a tenacious climb to the top. Watch this year's election coverage and you may come away with a renewed certainty that for one person to win, another's got to lose.
July 11, 2016
Data.World Aims To Be The Social Network For Data Nerds
This connective platform could help researchers solve problems more quickly by putting data sets all in one place.
If the early to mid aughts were about developing all-encompassing social networks for everyone, now it's about launching whole platforms targeted at a specific industry or subject—think of them like the chat rooms and message boards of web 1.0 but on steroids. Not only will geeks of all varieties be able to commiserate in one place, they'll be able to collaborate on projects.
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