If you really want to win at negotiation, stop fighting and start listening. In this episode of Stanford Innovation Lab, host Tina Seelig speaks with Margaret “Maggie” Neale, professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, for answers to the burning questions about negotiating. Is emotion your most powerful tool? When does deference earn you more than dominance? Will setting a walk-away price decrease your drive to negotiate for more? Maggie also shares pro-tips on negotiating in all settings, from the office to the farmers’ market.

Leadership educator and author Liz Wiseman shares a story that illustrates how great leaders help their employees overcome struggles, while also remembering to step away and hand back responsibility to give them a chance to grow and gain confidence.

"If you want to be the smartest person in the room about everything, you're going to build a crummy team," says Heidi Roizen, operating partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson. From her perspective as an investor, Roizen says she looks for entrepreneurs who attract the best people and who empower others to create great things.

Like many challengers before it, China is trying to position the new Nanjing research park as the next Silicon Valley. But unlike other global challengers, China is a hub of theft, and they are not following any of the ideals which built Silicon Valley into the greatest hub of technological innovation on earth. As I wrote earlier on this topic, this strategy will prevent China from ever becoming a global innovator.

Image: Night Skyline with bright lights in Shanghai, China . Image via GoodFreePhotos 

Contrary to what you believe, you don't have a marketing or sales problem. Most businesses think they do. In reality, they have a leadership problem. That's one of the biggest lessons you can learn as an entrepreneur, and it will radically change the way you lead your team and the trajectory of your success.

Now is the time to be an entrepreneur and create a business from your passion. The cost of rolling out a business has never been lower – it only takes a few hundred dollars to incorporate a Limited Liability Corp (LLC) online, create your own website, use social media to get attention, and you are in business. In the early Internet days, it would cost a million dollars to get this far.

We assume exercise improves our mental health. But what kind of exercise works best?

Researchers looking at the link between physical activity and mental health found that team sports fared best, followed by cycling, either on the road or a stationary bike.

The study, published in the journal Lancet Psychiatry this month, is among the first...

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IEDC is the world’s largest membership organization serving the economic development profession, with more than 5,000 members and a network of more than 25,000 economic development professionals and allies. From public to private, rural to urban, and local to international, our members represent the entire range of economic development experience. Through a range of services including conferences, training courses, webinars, publications, research and technical assistance efforts, we strive to provide cutting-edge knowledge to the economic development community and its stakeholders.

Is your small business claiming every single penny of tax relief that it’s due? The UK Government offers a string of valuable tax reliefs to businesses – many targeted specifically at small and medium-sized enterprises – but too often cash goes unclaimed.

Entrepreneurs running start-up and scale-up businesses may not even know what’s available and are less likely to employ specialist finance or tax staff. Or they may lack the time and resources to manage the claims process.

You may hate your open plan office. It may negatively affect your productivity. It may engender sexism and gender inequality in your office. It may reduce collaboration and increase emails. But, like most design issues, offices are complicated–and a new study suggests there is one very good reason to embrace the open plan: It’s making you healthier.

A humpback whale expertly drenched a boat full of whale watchers.

The video starts off serenely enough, with just a glimpse of a splash off in the distance, but as soon as the camera pans to the left a humpback whale can be seen emerging from the ocean. As the whale breeches near the boat an enormous splash soaks everyone aboard.

The group was out on a TAZ Whale Watching excursion off of Gustavus, Alaska, according to the YouTube video's caption, uploaded by Tristan Krause.

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The amount of detail in artist Olivia Kemp's massive landscape drawings is breathtaking. 

Especially when you consider the fact that she works predominantly in pen.

But for Kemp, who draws her work directly onto the paper, it's not even about the details.

"None of the work sets out to be intensely detailed as that’s not the purpose of them," she told Mashable. "It just becomes an absorbing part of the process."

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Hello, and welcome to Teaching, a free weekly newsletter from The Chronicle of Higher Education. This week Beckie explains how one business school’s faculty trips to Silicon Valley are benefiting students. Beth provides some examples of in-depth teaching training. We then share the names of colleges being recognized for their assessment efforts before leaving you with one academic’s story of how a professor’s long-ago intervention changed her life. Let’s begin.

Scientists have developed a way to grow miniature versions of human organs; some of the weirdest organoids are the mini brains.

Denmark has overtaken Sweden as the best country in the world to live in for women, according to a 2018 ranking from US News & World Report.

Ahead of International Women's Day in March, the media organisation surveyed more than 9,000 women as part of its wider Best Countries ranking in order to determine which of 80 countries around the globe are the best for women to live in.

With football still two weeks away, sports fans are truly in the dog days of summer.

Baseball has been around long enough to be familiar but is still a few weeks away from the crucial September games, and basketball free agency has long been silent.

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The majority of healthcare organizations — 63 percent — say they are planning to invest more than $1 million into blockchain in 2019, according to a Deloitte report.

Deloitte conducted an online survey of 1,053 senior executives from companies with at least $500 million in annual revenue from seven countries — Canada, China, France, Germany, Mexico, the United Kingdom and the United States — between March 26 and April 5 for its global blockchain report.

Eleven percent of respondents were from the healthcare industry — including providers and payers — and 5 percent of respondents were from the life sciences industry, such as biotechnology, medical device and pharmaceutical companies.

WASHINGTON — Francis Collins did not take off his pants.

To the contrary, he could sense something wasn’t quite right — perhaps immediately, when his heavyset and dubiously bearded interviewer, sitting in a motorized scooter, began by asking: “Why are big agriculture putting chemicals into our food to make people transgender?”

The man — who calls himself Billy Wayne Ruddick Jr., Ph.D. — was referring to trans fats.

Image: Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, on "Who is America?" SCREEN CAPTURE VIA SHOWTIME

Americans are increasingly prisoners of ideology, and our society is paying the price. We are divided along partisan lines to an extent that some are calling it a “soft civil war.” In the end, this benefits only ideological warriors and their funders.

One key source of this deepening division is the relentless centralization that has overtaken both our economy and our politics. Leaders of both parties have sat by while the forces of capital and government have centralized power and authority in ever fewer hands.

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