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What If Doing Your Job Is Part of the Problem? (opens the original)
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America Is Closing the Door on Its Next Great Corporate Founders (opens the original)
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In the early 1980s, a little boy named Luis von Ahn would spend his afternoons in a concrete compound in Guatemala City. This was his mother’s family’s candy factory. Luis was fascinated by the machinery: a copper vat and an industrial mixer. His curiosity would drive him to take them apart and then try to put them back together. Meanwhile, his private English language school taught him mathematics. And he loved playing pirated games on a Commodore 64. What he remembers most,
Once a $300 Million Lie, China’s Luckin Is Now Serving $2 Lattes in America (opens the original)
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The $2 Hot Dog on 5-Star Services (opens the original)
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The Companies Firing Fastest Will Die First (opens the original)
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In March, I published an essay called “How Organizations Lose Their Minds.” I argue that the company firing employees the fastest in the name of AI redundancy is going to fail the fastest.That’s because I’ve seen it in Circuit City, which ran exactly the same approach all the way back in 2007. At 8:15 a.m. on March 28, 2007, Circuit City fired 3,400 of its most experienced salespeople. The store managers across the country, coast to coast, literally read from a script that headquarters handed to
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