How Do People With Groundbreaking Ideas Bring Them Into Reality?

When facing what appears to be a Hobson’s choice, here are three strategies to expand your options. Sometime in the early 1600s, stable owner Thomas Hobson faced a business dilemma: His best horses were the ones most in-demand from his customers. Nothing was surprising about this. However, because the best horses were hired out most often, they were also the most overworked.

‘Fast Company’ spoke with Salesforce’s chief people officer, Nathalie Scardino, about what happens when AI takes over tasks that workers used to do. Salesforce recently announced that it has introduced more than 50 AI-powered tools among its workforce and reported that these tools have saved its employees in excess of 50,000 hours—or 24 years’ worth—of working time in just three months. 

Heat index is the combination of actual air temperature and relative humidity. Together, too much heat and humidity can make you sick. You’ve probably heard people say, “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.” There’s a lot of truth to that phrase, and it’s important to understand it as summer temperatures rise.

‘It would be difficult to tell the story of the 20th century without discussing the many contributions made by this legendary, iconic artist.’ Nearly 50 years have passed since Elvis Presley died; save for an annual August observance to commemorate the anniversary of the singer’s death, most days produce little news about Presley or his estate, Graceland, which became a National Historic Landmark in 2006.

When this data security company saw several new products fall flat, it did what Mcrosoft, Amazon, and other tech leaders did: it launched a dedicated innovation team to right the ship. About five years ago, our data security company faced a situation no company ever wants to deal with: Some newly released products weren’t selling as well as forecast, and the pressure was on here at Rubrik to do better with other offerings going to market soon.

Bill Ford, the executive chair of Ford Motor Company, partly credits his experience in Silicon Valley with helping him come up with a plan to restore Detroit’s Michigan Central Station. The 111-year-old Beaux-Arts building, designed by the same firm that did New York City’s Grand Central Station, had fallen into disuse after closing in the 1980s, becoming a symbol for the city’s decline—something Ford had long wanted to change.