Global Food Prices On The Rise Again: World Bank

Music industry veteran Zane Lowe on discovering his deeper purpose with musicians, the art of balancing music and business, and overcoming fear in the creative process. In the movie Maestro, American conductor Leonard Bernstein’s wife, actress Felicia, says to him: “If summer doesn’t sing in you, then nothing sings in you.

American Girl’s brand refresh is happening at the perfect time: when Millenial parents who grew up with the dolls are buying toys for their own kids. The moment Pentagram partner Emily Oberman’s team got the call that they’d be working on a brand refresh for American Girl, she says “a primal scream went through the office.”The designers, who were part of an all-female team for the project, were American Girl superfans.

In their new book, professors Christopher Wong Michaelson and Jennifer Tosti-Kharas explore what the future of meaningful work looks like. Visitors to Walt Disney World cannot help but be confronted with founder and visionary Walt Disney’s obsession with the future. Evidence is all over the park, from Tomorrowland in the Magic Kingdom to the geodesic dome presiding over the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, better known as Epcot.

Trying to predict how you or your team might think and act in response to volatile and uncertain events isn’t easy, which makes it harder to prepare. However, performance psychology research and practice tell us that it starts with an adaptive mindset.  You know if your team has an adaptive mindset because they are proactive […] Trying to predict how you or your team might think and act in response to volatile and uncertain events isn’t easy, which makes it harder to prepare.

This review process can help you focus your attention more effectively and productively. While you may not be able to judge a book by its cover, a calendar audit reveals a lot. That’s because it’s possible to gauge someone’s level of success by how they spend their time, says Shelmina Babai Abji, author of Show Your Worth: 8 Intentional Strategies for Women to Emerge as Leaders at Work.

A Denver jury has awarded a small Washington company $20.3 million plus legal fees in its antitrust lawsuit against Johns Manville Corp., the Denver-based building products maker owned by Berkshire Hathaway Co. Thermal Pipe Shields Inc., or TPS, based in Stanwood, Wash., is a maker of pipe support systems that previously had purchased calcium silicate or “calsil” insulation from Johns Manville, which controlled nearly the entire market for that product. TPS in early 2018 announced it would make the insulation itself with the help of a Chinese manufacturer that Johns Manville had previously contracted with.