With questions about the future of middle management, many believe that corporations will soon beef up their core leadership teams, allowing them to keep foundational business knowledge close to the top while delegating the increasingly complex attributes of the modern organization to in-house, executive-level experts.

Dining out isn't just about the food. It's about the whole experience.

Some restaurants offer delicious food, incredible views, and an amazing atmosphere — and people travel around the world just to eat at them.

From a snow village in Finland to an underwater restaurant in the Maldives to the best restaurant in the world on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list, here are 40 unforgettable restaurants that are worth traveling the world to eat at.

Image: Facebook / Perlan The rotating restaurant Perlan in Reykjavik, Iceland, offers amazing views of the city.   

Out of the 23 poorest countries in the world, 19 are located in Africa, according to an analysis by the Global Finance Magazine. 

Based on data from the IMF, the magazine ranked the world's countries according to their GDP per capita and determined the poorest and richest ones.

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Qatar, Luxembourg and Singapore: On top of sharing the particularity of being some of the smallest countries in the world, they are also the three richest countries in the world, according to an analysis by the Global Finance Magazine. 

Based on data from the IMF, the magazine ranked the world's countries according to their GDP per capita and determined the poorest and richest ones.

Every entrepreneur I know is short on resources, including time, money, and skills. The last thing they can afford is to waste any of these, but in my mentoring and coaching activities, I see it happening all too often. Waste in a startup is any activity that spends resources, but creates no value or competitive advantage in the eyes of customers.

Venture capital has let women-led companies down. Since 2005 only 9.7% of US venture-backed founding teams included a woman. However, things are about to change. Crowdfunding has seen a surge of female-led companies and women are standing out both as entrepreneurs and investors. Welcome to the future of early stage finance.

Crowdfunding is a thrilling prospect. Connecting potential entrepreneurs with millions of micro-investors, the platform has helped fund and launch countless new enterprises, and it’s given a realistic platform for countless bright, young business owners who would otherwise have nowhere to go.

For any business, especially fledgling start-ups, entering a fast growing marketplace is a sure-fire way to establish a solid client base and build rapid turnover. Currently, the UAE has one of the fastest growing economies in the world, making it a prime destination for companies to export their goods and services, or even to base their headquarters.

On top of its quickly growing economy, the country is also going through an infrastructure boom, and is planning to spend the equivalent of $300 billion (USD) on further development by the year 2030. If you’re looking to relocate your company, open a secondary headquarters or start a new venture, here are some reasons why you should seriously consider the UAE.

ADELPHI, Md. -- William (Brit) Kirwan has been a top university administrator over nearly three decades of vast change in higher education. During that time he's seen the rise of online learning, a change in the funding dynamic of public colleges, an increased emphasis on obtaining a college education and much, much more. The 77-year-old Kirwan retired last month from his 13-year chancellorship of the University System of Maryland.

Image: Brit Kirwan, retired chancellor of the University System of Maryland U OF MARYLAND  

Coding bootcamps have earned friends in high places, including President Obama, who called them a ticket to the middle class.

These programs are designed to take in students with minimal coding knowledge and shoot them back out a few months later as employable software engineers.

If your degree comes from one of these schools, you're in demand.

Jobvite, a recruiting platform, analyzed 7 million applications and 40,000 hires to determine the schools that had the most students hired by top companies in and around Silicon Valley.

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Sharath Mekala’s two-person tech startup isn’t a textbook government contractor.

Village Defense, spawned through a startup incubator called 1776, develops a free app that lets neighbors send real-time alerts to one another if they notice suspicious activity. A premium version, which costs $125 a month, is designed for homeowners associations.

Some people look at Silicon Valley and see a world filled with fortune-seekers come to strike it rich.

Yes, the Valley has its share of mercenaries. But you’ve never heard of the companies they founded or ran, because those start-ups couldn’t attract or retain good talent, win solid investment backing, or earn customers’ good will.

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When LinkedIn suggested "How I Lead" as the topic for this month’s Influencer series, I had to pause to consider how my thinking has evolved on the subject. How did I lead earlier in my career? How do I lead today? What has changed? What has remained constant? How do I synthesize what has worked particularly well?

JARDINES DE LA REINA, CUBA — The six-foot Caribbean reef shark came out of the water thrashing, and Fabián Pina Amargós and his crew quickly pulled it into the research boat.

A team set to work, immobilizing the shark’s mouth and tail, pouring water over it to keep it breathing and inserting a yellow plastic tag into a small hole punched in its dorsal fin.

PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi knows that ongoing innovation is the key to the company’s global success that triggers and helps retain brand loyalty.

“Our innovation success today is the result of significant investments in and changes to our innovation research and development capabilities and processes that began about eight years ago,” Noooyi said during the company’s July 9 second-quarter earnings conference call, according to Seeking Alpha. “At that time, we were in an extremely decentralized organization, operating as a loose confederation of geographic business units, with each largely driving its own development agenda and establishing their own processes.

Even if world manages to limit global warming to 2°C — the target number for current climate negotiations — sea levels may still rise at least 6 meters (20 feet) above their current heights, radically reshaping the world’s coastline and affecting millions in the process.

That finding comes from a new paper published on Thursday in Science that shows how high sea levels rose the last time carbon dioxide levels were this high.

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The 2015 12th Annual Report and Survey of Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Capacity and Production is the most recent study of biotherapeutic developers and contract manufacturing organizations' current and projected future capacity and production.

Published by BioPlan Associates, Inc. April 2015 ISBN 978-1-934106-27-3

Headliner data no longer impresses startup community leaders examining alternative policy levers for building city ecosystems for entrepreneurs. City decision makers want robust, granular analysis alongside opportunities for more collaboration with their peer cities. So how are startup cities assessing themselves?

Now that urban centers accommodate more than half of the world’s population, they have become important trend setters for local and national policymakers.