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May 15, 2017 Your Brain Can Only Take So Much Focus By Srini Pillay "Unfocus" enhances resilience, creativity, and decision making.

Strategy Can Snapchat Survive If Facebook Copies All Its Best Features? by Walter Frick It's a classic strategy debate. Labor Recessions Push People to Buy Cheap Things, Which Just Makes Everything Worse by Sergio Rebelo How consumer behavior feeds the jobless recovery. Intellectual property What the Rise of Russian Hackers Means for Your Business by Michael Sulmeyer Make yourself a harder target. Ethics CEOs Who Began Their Careers During Booms Tend to Be Less Ethical by Emily C. Bianchi, Aharon Mohliver Research shows they were more likely to backdate their stock options. Retirement How to Become a Coach or Consultant After You Retire by Dorie Clark Start recruiting clients now.

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