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Need a new reason to get up in the morning? Enrich your life by finding and developing your next passion. Julia Fawal | TED Ever watch The Great British Bake Off? It’s an addictive reality TV show about the hunt for Britain’s best amateur baker. Few of the contestants cook for... Read more

A year-end look at the top workplace culture content from Longitudes. Brian Hughes | UPS Longitudes For all the strides our global society made in 2018, much work remains in building workplaces that reflect the great diversity we see in our everyday lives. These are workplaces where anybody can contribute... Read more

A year-end look at the top logistics content from Longitudes. Brian Hughes | UPS Longitudes The calling for logistics companies has never been clearer: Get customers what they want when they want it. Simple enough, right? Not exactly. More than ever, we’re responding to the needs and demands of consumers... Read more

A year-end look at the top manufacturing content from Longitudes. Brian Hughes | UPS Longitudes The digital and physical worlds are colliding in what we now call the Fourth Industrial Revolution. As UPS’s Alan Amling points out, what’s happening under the surface to bring any product to your door is... Read more

A year-end look at the top technology and innovation content from Longitudes. Brian Hughes | UPS Longitudes Leaps in technology, including artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and blockchain, took center stage in 2018. And while companies like UPS explored the new frontiers made possible by those innovations, such progress... Read more

A year-end look at the top sustainability content from Longitudes. Brian Hughes | UPS Longitudes Diversification was the sustainability story of 2018. From innovative urban planning to a greater understanding of online returns to a growing fleet of electric vehicles, sustainable solutions came in many different shapes and sizes. That’s... Read more

A year-end look at the top leadership content from Longitudes. Brian Hughes | UPS Longitudes You know a good leader when you see one. Some are quiet. Some are loud. Some are meticulous. Some are instinctive. Some have decades of experience. Some are brand new on the job. Regardless of... Read more

A year-end look at the top e-commerce content from Longitudes. Brian Hughes | UPS Longitudes Navigating the choppy waters of digital commerce is arguably the greatest opportunity – and challenge – for businesses of all sizes today. That’s because e-commerce levels the playing field, allowing resourceful entrepreneurs to plug into... Read more

A year-end look at the top small business content from Longitudes. Brian Hughes | UPS Longitudes Editor’s note: The past year was hardly lacking for stories on Longitudes. We explored the trends of tomorrow with thought leaders like Richard Branson and Tim Brown. We highlighted upstart businesses that are changing the... Read more

Here’s how to assemble your personal dream team. Julia Fawal | TED Everyone can use a mentor. Scratch that – as it turns out, we could all use five mentors. Share “Mentorship is a relationship between humans and not a transaction.” “The best mentors can help us define and express our inner calling,”... Read more

In the age of e-commerce, must we sacrifice privacy in the name of convenience? Derek Banta | UPS In today’s interconnected world, keeping our personal data private can seem nearly impossible. We’re often forced to give away our personal information to get the services we desire, especially when it comes... Read more

In the era of teleconferencing, how do leaders avoid getting stuck in the uncanny valley? Bob Johansen | Institute For The Future I used video teleconferencing for the first time in 1973. The video wasn’t very good and the audio was worse, but otherwise the design vision was pretty much... Read more

How the World Food Program provides life-saving food assistance and a pathway to self-sufficiency. Ash Kosiewicz | World Food Program USA When Jeremias Ngwenya opened his eyes one morning last March in Mozambique, he remembers exactly how he felt. He rested upon a soft, white mattress with a faded blue... Read more

We all struggle with focus. But these 8 steps can help you get back on track. Amy Gallo | Harvard Business Review Sometimes there’s so much going on in your life and the broader world that you can’t focus. How can you get back to feeling productive? Share “We must... Read more

The path to a more sustainable future runs through logistics. Suzanne Greene | MIT Transportation is the second biggest global emitter of greenhouse gases (GHG), yet the logistics sector is often left out of the climate conversation. Share “The logistics sector is often left out of the climate conversation.” The... Read more

China's One Belt One Road initiative takes a page out of history – maritime history. David Abulafia | University of Cambridge Few images are more enduring in the historical imagination than the train of two-humped Bactrian camels plodding across desert sands from west to east, or vice-versa, across the vast... Read more

Small businesses face many hurdles to going global, but e-commerce brings us closer to an inclusive global economy. Kimberley Botwright | World Economic Forum Sean Doherty | World Economic Forum ‘Tis the season to shop online. Rather than braving the high street, why not open your browser? E-commerce sales worldwide... Read more

Small businesses face many hurdles to going global, but e-commerce brings us closer to an inclusive global economy. Kimberley Botwright | World Economic Forum Sean Doherty | World Economic Forum ‘Tis the season to shop online. Rather than braving the high street, why not open your browser? E-commerce sales worldwide... Read more

What can a simple intersection teach us about the future of transportation? Bonnie Cha | Autodesk With approximately 70 percent of the world’s population expected to live in cities by 2050, transportation needs will change dramatically in the next 30 years. Here’s what an intersection looks like today – and a... Read more

To identify job candidates who have substance and not just smarts, here are better questions to ask. Julia Fawal | TED While the number of questions that can be asked on a job interview are infinite, almost all of them fall into one of two categories: questions about competency or... Read more

The barriers between corporate functional silos are already crumbling. Ellen Weinreb | Weinreb Group As I reflect on 2017, one of the positive changes I noticed was the breaking down of silos. As the walls between sustainability, corporate social responsibility and other corporate functions start to crumble, leaders are better... Read more

A year-end look at the best manufacturing content from Longitudes. Brian Hughes | UPS Longitudes James Rowe | UPS Longitudes In Part 2 of our five-part white paper series, Routes to the Future, we argued that the way we make the world around us – how we design, produce, deliver and reclaim... Read more

A year-end look at the best manufacturing content from Longitudes. Brian Hughes | UPS Longitudes James Rowe | UPS Longitudes In Part 2 of our five-part white paper series, Routes to the Future, we argued that the way we make the world around us – how we design, produce, deliver and reclaim... Read more

A year-end look at the best sustainability content from Longitudes. Brian Hughes | UPS Longitudes James Rowe | UPS Longitudes There are no longer separate paths for business and sustainability success – those two lanes are now one and the same. But even as the corporate community reaches a consensus on... Read more

A year-end look at the best sustainability content from Longitudes. Brian Hughes | UPS Longitudes James Rowe | UPS Longitudes There are no longer separate paths for business and sustainability success – those two lanes are now one and the same. But even as the corporate community reaches a consensus on... Read more