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The United States of Brand-Building
byBy Laura Desmond On bone saws, Khashoggi, and foreign policy Editor’s Note: No Mercy/No Malice is a column from Professor Scott Galloway, where he shares various reflections on business, tech, and life each week. Feelings are biochemical mechanisms that all mammals and birds use in order to quickly calculate probabilities of survival and reproduction. Feelings […]
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3 Ways to Clarify Your Authentic Personal Brand and Why You Need To
byBeing ‘authentic’ is not just a nice idea, but something that has a massive effect on your health, mental state and even longevity. As well as that, developing a strong sense of your own authentic brand unleashes you onto the world in a wonderful new way. That is, if you do it right. It has […]
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Innovation Isn’t About Ideas
byIt’s about solving problems and doing hard things first Every enterprise needs to innovate. It doesn’t matter whether you’re are a profit-seeking business, a nonprofit organization, or a government entity. The simple truth is that every business model fails eventually, because conditions change over time. We have to manage not for stability, but for disruption — that, or face […]
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Seven ways to beat stress
byExercise, put away your phone before bed and eat well … the best ways to give your body and mind a break 1. Identify the cause If you are having problems with tense muscles, overtiredness, headaches or migraines, it is quite possibly stress-related. Is it your job, relationship, living situation or something else? Problems can be […]
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The best cruelty-free skincare brand in the US
byI witness a downturn if I skip even a week of Drunk Elephant’s serum Three years ago a contact told me about a new US cruelty-free skincare brand with a “cleaner beauty” manifesto. A range free, she said, of what the founder called “the suspicious six” – silicone, essential oils, chemical sunscreens, sulphates, fragrance, dyes […]
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Will Trump’s withdrawal from nuclear treaty spark an arms race or Russian compliance?
byThe agreement was designed to keep ground-based nuclear missiles out of Europe, but critics say tearing it up could spark an arms race there. A piece of reckless brinkmanship that could spark an arms race between NATO and Russia in Europe, or a hardball negotiating strategy that might push Moscow into keeping its longstanding promises […]
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Visa Integrates Open Source Hyperledger Tech for B2B Blockchain Payments
byVisa is integrating open-source blockchain code from the Hyperledger Fabric ahead of the commercial launch of its own blockchain service for enterprise payments in Q1 2019. Visa B2B Connect, the payment giant’s enterprise blockchain platform that enables cross-border payments between businesses, is partnering IBM to integrate the latter’s development of the open-source Hyperledger Fabric framework. […]
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Is this the end for real fur?
byLondon Fashion Week recently became the first global fashion week to ban animal fur. Campaigners were euphoric. In the past year, fur has faced significant challenges everywhere, but still – it was quite a moment. Then, a few weeks later, Los Angeles voted to ban the manufacture and sale of fur within city limits, becoming […]
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The Bosnians who speak medieval Spanish
byWhen Jews fled Spain during the Inquisition, they carried their language with them. Today, Ladino reflects the trajectories of the Sephardic Jewish diaspora, but can it survive? On our way to Sarajevo’s Ashkenazi Synagogue for the Friday evening Shabbat (Sabbath) service, my friend Paula Goldman and I walked down cobblestone streets through the Baščaršija, the […]
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How to make something go viral.
byTaming the wildfire that is viral marketing and harnessing it to grow your brand at a breakneck pace. Come spring, golfers spanning the world set their tee times, dust off their clubs and take to the links for yet another season of slapping the little white ball across acres of rolling green. Each golfer might […]
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