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Getting sidetracked may actually help you.

Surprise Ride’s Rosy and Donna Khalife received a surprise visit from the Shark during a follow-up taping.

They are more likely to detect patterns and speak up if something seems amiss.

Amanda Setili offers seven strategies to make your business more agile. Then, we get a lesson in mindfulness and living with intention from Mark Nation.

Sometimes the most well-known path to permanent residence for entrepreneurs is not always the quickest or easiest.

When a nitrogen atom is next to the space vacated by a carbon atom, it forms what is called a nitrogen-vacancy center. Now, researchers have shown how they can create more NV centers, which makes sensing magnetic fields easier, using a relatively simpl…

Why this entrepreneur packs six months of work into four.

Sukhinder Singh Cassidy has had a successful career in tech. Her latest venture makes it easier for corporate boards to bring more women to the table.

In Puerto Rico, Hurricane Maria “raged like a buzz saw,” hitting highly populated areas, Vox reports.

On paper, Whole Foods’ employee-first mentality and Amazon’s customer-first motto couldn’t be a worse match.

IN THEORY, overnight air travel should be wonderfully convenient. Instead of booking a hotel for the night and losing a day, travellers simply sleep while they fly. In reality, sleeping on a plane is hard, and at an airport tougher still. The chairs in terminals, nobody’s idea of comfort to begin with, tend to have armrests that make splaying out unfeasible. Even in business-class lounges, travellers contort themselves into impossible shapes to pretend that workspace desks are actually beds.

But soon there may be less need for such acrobatics. Sleep pods are coming to more and more airports. Last month, Washington Dulles International put out a call for proposals for a company to provide “a quiet and comfortable place within the airport to sleep, relax, or work while waiting to board a flight”. Mexico City’s airport has just added sleep pods with a space-age design for $30 a night. YotelAir, which offers pods in…Continue reading

Helpful conversations will increase employee engagement.

But, first, here are 4 things you need to know before you hit up the faculty at your kids’ school.

Germany’s Angela Merkel is poised to cruise through re-election for a record fourth term as chancellor, USA Today reports.

Volkswagen has not ruled out breaking with company tradition and appointing an outsider as its next chief executive, Chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch said.

Even with such an unpredictable future and tons of job possibilities out there, there are ways that you can prepare.