Target’s turnaround plan isn’t built for this moment

Business 3/4 8:00A Elizabeth Segran

The retailer is betting on design and in-store delight to reverse years of declining sales. But in a trade-down economy, that playbook may be dangerously out of date. Americans are feeling financially stretched: 92% cut back on spending last...

Alysa Liu’s gold medal comeback is a leadership lesson about joy, not grit

Business 3/4 5:42A Amy Leneker

High performance isn’t built on endurance alone. It’s built on conditions that make joy possible. Anyone who knows me knows I’m an optimistic, joy-seeking, recovering workaholic committed to leading a joyful rebellion against stress and burnout....

The 10 brutally honest questions all good leaders should ask themselves

Business 3/4 5:18A Lisa Bodell

There’s tremendous value in confronting uncomfortable truths. Leadership isn’t just about making decisions, driving results, or inspiring teams. It’s about the willingness to confront uncomfortable truths: about your business, your team, and...

Are you using ‘authenticity’ as an excuse not to grow? Here are some signs that you are

Business 3/4 5:00A Chantal Laurie Below

You shouldn’t use authenticity to resist development. Authenticity is a critical leadership trait . Research shows that it facilitates more trusting relationships and a more positive working environment. Often, though, in my executive coaching...

5 design principles to feel fully alive

Business 3/4 3:30A Next Big Idea Club

Designers start in reality and meaning shows up right there in the mix. Below, co-authors Dave Evans and Bill Burnett share five key insights from their new book, How to Live a Meaningful Life: Using Design Thinking to Unlock Purpose, Joy, and...

Here’s the leadership skill AI can’t replace

Business 3/3 11:00P Aytekin Tank

As generative AI becomes more advanced, the leaders who get the most value from it aren’t the ones who prompt perfectly—they’re the ones who think critically and ask better questions. A journalist is assigned a profile of a prominent politician on...

5 ways to design better meetings and improve your work calendar

Business 3/3 3:30A Next Big Idea Club

A Meeting Doomsday is a radical way to clear meeting debt. Below, Rebecca Hinds shares five key insights from her new book, Your Best Meeting Ever: 7 Principles for Designing Meetings That Get Things Done .

The ‘time is money’ mantra is a terrible starting point for planning and designing infrastructure

Business 2/27 10:15A Andy Boenau

It’s a serious mistake to overplay the economic claims. Productivity , and alleged lost productivity, has driven most of the conversation around traffic congestion and sprawl in the United States. While time is money is true in some contexts, it s...

Pokémon turns 30: What’s behind the media franchise’s enduring appeal?

Business 2/27 9:40A Associated Press

Heather Cole, who teaches game design at West Virginia University, says Pokémon offers a masterclass in character design. Benson Lu s life revolves around Pokémon . The 26-year-old has played the mobile game Pokémon Go every day for a decade,...

Anthropic is refusing to bend on AI safeguards as dispute with Pentagon nears deadline

Business 2/27 8:47A Associated Press

CEO Dario Amodei said his company ‘cannot in good conscience accede’ to the Pentagon. A public showdown between the Trump administration and Anthropic is hitting an impasse as military officials demand the artificial intelligence company bend its...

How Starbucks designed its new iconic cup and big comfy chair

Business 2/27 7:00A Mark Wilson

The coffee chain wants to revive hospitality with premium mugs and a plush chair that hearkens back to its ’90s heyday. Since taking over the coffee chain in 2024, Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol has been on a mission to go “back to Starbucks” and...

Axe just made it way harder to overuse its body spray

Business 2/26 6:00A Grace Snelling

Subtle design changes will have middle school teachers everywhere breathing a sigh of relief. There are a few odors from adolescence that are seared into the brains of most Americans who grew up after the 1980s: the aroma of freshly baked brick...

Coach’s new bag charms are literal books

Business 2/26 5:30A Grace Snelling

Bold colors and distinctive designs: Here’s how Coach and Penguin designed their coveted, teeny-tiny books. The devil might’ve worn Prada in 2006, but two decades later, the fashion elite are wearing books. Case in point: Coach’s hot new accessory...

Why your best-looking candidates often perform the worst

Business 2/24 12:22P Natasha Nuytten

Research shows top performers can be eight times more productive—yet most hiring systems are designed to filter them out.

Apple killed Dark Sky. Now its creators are trying again with a new weather app

Business 2/24 10:32A Chris Morris

Acme Weather brings back the team behind the cult-favorite forecast app, with new features designed to show uncertainty. Dark Sky was a rarity in the app world. Universally beloved, the weather app had an uncanny ability to tell you when to...