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The archetypal high-growth founder isn’t a 20-year-old prodigy in a garage. A US…
A Census-linked study of 2.7 million US founders found that exceptional employment growth was associated with middle age, with relevant industry experience offering the clearest clue as to why.
Learning in the age of information: how access counterfeits understanding, and how…
Having everything at our fingertips has made us confuse access with understanding—and it's making us neither wiser nor smarter.
The company behind Ozempic cannot be taken over, because Novo Nordisk has been…
A hundred-billion-dollar empire built on weight loss is now controlled by a Danish charity—and legally, it always will be.
During the Second World War, when sugar, butter and cream were rationed and rival…
A California candy maker's wartime refusal to cheat—sticking with premium ingredients while competitors cut corners—became a lesson in how principle can outlast expedience.
The claim that people’s welfare matters more than profit tangles two very…
When profits and worker welfare clash, the real debate begins—the first one about facts, the second about values.
Psychology says the trait we most admire as “confidence” in leaders overlaps…
The charisma we mistake for leadership capability may be indistinguishable from the grandiosity that derails organizations from within.
Ireland’s data centres used 5 per cent of the country’s metered electricity in…
A quiet infrastructure boom is quietly reshaping Ireland's energy future—and nobody planned for it.
Microsoft Japan gave roughly 2,300 employees five consecutive Fridays off in…
Microsoft Japan's 39.9% sales-per-employee comparison was real, but the company said the trial did not cause it alone. The meeting redesign is the experiment's more direct lesson.
In 1926, Henry Ford cut his factory workers from six days a week to five and…
Ford said its factories could produce at least as much in 40 hours as in 48. The claim came from repeated operating changes, not a controlled scientific trial.
The people who rise fastest in most organisations are rarely the most competent…
Confidence masquerades as competence so perfectly that organizations promote the wrong people and then act shocked when it backfires.
Why did an oil-producing country pumping about two million barrels a day make…
Norway pumps two million barrels a day, exports almost all of it, banks the proceeds in a $1.8 trillion sovereign fund — and buys electric cars at a rate no other country has ever matched. Inside the policy machinery that holds the contradiction together.