On my first day at my internship at the public relations firm, I was stationed at the front desk. The other intern, Julie, was peppy as she showed me how to use the phones, slowly repeating the script I was to use. At one point, she mentioned that she was a college senior and wanted to know if I was also in college. For some reason, it had not registered that I was an entire decade older than she was. “Oh, Julie, I actually just completed my Ph.D.,” I responded.

Over the past three years, The New York Times has been a good example of traditional media making a successful transition into digital.

In 2018, the newspaper had 4.3 million subscribers, of which 3.4 million were digital subscribers who brought in more than US$700 million. Revenue from its digital editions is expected to hit US$800 million next year.

As the presidential election year draws near, The New York Times is seizing the opportunity to introduce more online products and services.

Each Cyclops had a single eye because, legend has it, the mythical giants traded the other one with the god Hades in return for the ability to see into the future. But Hades tricked them: the only vision the Cyclopes were shown was the day they would die. They carried this knowledge through their lives as a burden—the unending torture of being forewarned and yet having no ability to do anything about it.

Olympic medalist, speaker, author and NBC analyst John K. Coyle talks about how little moments of time can shift the trajectory of your entire life. Coyle shares his thoughts on how to take advantage of time by achieving a flow state, as well as how his experience as a champion speedskater shaped his outlook on life and productivity.

Want to make your work environment less stressful?

Then consider bring feng shui to your cubicle or office.

Feng shui is an ancient Chinese art still practiced today that relies on spatial arrangement and orientation to channel specific energy (including success and productivity) into a physical environment.

The principals of feng shui can help infuse your work space with balance, focus and productivity.

Despite what we often hear, the world is getting better. On a global scale, there’s less poverty, less income inequality, and people have more opportunity than ever before. Yet there’s also reason for concern. Since the early 2000s productivity growth has slowed in many wealthier countries which means living standards aren’t improving as fast as they once did. Innovation—creating new products and services or improving old ones—is a key driver of productivity growth and thus essential for continued prosperity. Federal, state, and local governments all have a role to play in fostering more innovation.

Image: In this Thursday, July 11, 2019, photograph, United States Department of Agriculture intern Alex Olsen, left, and engineering technician Kevin Yemoto work to set up a drone for flight over a research farm. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski) ASSOCIATED PRESS

There are a lot of high schools in the United States — 18,841 to be exact. And now that another summer is drawing to a close, those 18,841 high schools will soon be opening their doors for a new school year.

To find the best one in each state, school-ranking website Niche rated the high schools according to several factors, including SAT and ACT scores, reading and math proficiency, graduation rate, AP enrollment, and diversity.

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Most businesses spend big money testing their brand logo, catchy marketing phrases, and demographics, but spend little time training and validating that their employees can and do deliver exceptional experiences to their customers. The result, according to an often-quoted Gallup survey, is 70 percent of workers not fully engaged, and poor customer experiences.

You might question the subject of this article if you spend 5 minutes on Facebook reading and seeing images and stories of entrepreneurs being so joyful, profitable, and living an easy life while they hang out on the beach in Hawaii, helicopter to a yacht in the Mediterranean, or frolicking in the surf with their sexy partner.

Following in the footsteps of my hero, Nike’s founder and former CEO Phil Knight, I decided that I would first become a certified public accountant (CPA) before eventually starting my own business. Earning a background in finance seemed the obvious first step to building a successful company, so I put my head down and pushed through years of accounting classes. 

Ever heard of Maikel Franco? Maybe you haven’t. But fans of the Philadelphia Phillies know him.

Up until recently, Franco was the Phillies starting third baseman. He arrived in the major leagues in 2014 swinging a big bat and bringing big expectations. And although he's had some great moments (like this awesome walk off against the Nationals earlier this season), Franco has overall just been, well, a big disappointment.

On the current episode of the YES Network's Forbes SportsMoney show, Ryan Howard, a partner at SeventySix Capital, and I discussed the firm's strategy as well as the three-time MLB All-Star's personal investments (below).

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It's hard to beat the excitement that comes from angel investing.

You might have heard about big-name angel investors like Jeff Clavier, the founder of Uncork Capital. He's made successful early-stage investments in Fitbit Inc. (NYSE: FIT), Eventbrite Inc. (NYSE: EB), and Mint.com, among others. His golden touch has made him a regular on the Forbes Midas List of top tech dealmakers.

A tourist or even a demographer may sit at a café near the Louvre and imagine that the architecture and development of Paris looks the same, all the way to the urban fringe. Yet Paris is much more than the city proper (“Ville de Paris”). It is surrounded by the balance of the Paris urban area (“unité urbaine”), the continuous urban footprint that extends up to 20 miles (32 kilometers) in each direction and is largely suburban.

We all have heard one fact from every entrepreneur about the success that it doesn’t come up with reading articles in newspaper or websites. The process begins with the idea. Everyone’s definition is different about this very topic but it concludes with ‘paving your own path’. Some become millionaires while some with their hard work and knowledge are billionaires. So, what distinguish billionaires from millionaires?

In 1957, Ken Olsen founded Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) with his MIT classmate, Harlan Anderson, and by the 1960s, the company had pioneered the minicomputer revolution. Much cheaper than IBM mainframes, but still powerful enough to be useful, these machines helped make DEC one of the world’s leading technology companies.

If you are running an organization of any kind then making it more efficient is a key priority.  It is important to speed up processes, eliminate waste, improve quality, reduce costs and generally please customers.  And if you work hard at it you can do all of these things.  But it is also important to prioritise innovation – finding new products and services and new ways to do things.  The trouble is that if you focus too hard on efficiency then you can easily neglect innovation.

All organizations have the ability to be smarter than the sum of their members’ intelligence and talent. Unfortunately, most are actually dumber. The good news is there are a handful of practical steps to boost collective intelligence.

Having a set of graphics for your crowdfunding campaign is a must. But the challenge lies in how you balance all of the different types of graphics in one place. This blog highlights the types of graphics you need for your campaign with examples of those who've done it right so far.

WOODSIDE, Calif. — There’s a house situated on a wooded hillside in this wealthy Bay Area town, its entryway shaded by a pergola covered in vines, the mountains framed by wood-trimmed windows, stones paving a sweeping garden.

But it isn’t your typical multimillion-dollar Bay Area home. Instead of a couch and a television, the living room is dotted with desks. Instead of T-ball trophies and family photos, the gallery wall in the hallway is plastered with prints about startups working on men’s fertility tests, subscription plans for egg freezing, and catheters for chemotherapy. (The kitchen, however, is still stocked with snacks.)

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