Without accountability, poor-quality work, decisions, and leadership go unchallenged, and ethical slips start to happen. Activity but no progress, meetings with no follow-up, confused responsibilities, impossible demands, missed milestones, low morale, poor engagement, talent drain—does this sound familiar? These are the symptoms of the epidemic...

The Korean tech giant is playing a longer-tail game than most of us could ever realize. I never really got Samsung until I was sitting in its R&D center just outside Seoul. Inside this glass-and-concrete monolith sits a beautiful, three-story design library finished entirely in natural oak. It felt like an architectural representation of Samsung—a...

By analyzing video footage of surgeries, Theator can help identify steps surgeons can take to improve post-op outcomes. When Dr. Tamir Wolf diagnosed his wife and a former boss with appendicitis in 2016, he referred each to a different hospital for their appendectomies. Though his wife was in and out within 12 hours and had a smooth recovery, his...

In his new book, ‘The 15-Minute City,’ Carlos Moreno explains how Paris has radically transformed—and how the proximity concept is growing globally. Four years ago, Paris embraced the idea of the 15-minute city—the concept that you should be able to live a short walk or bike ride from work, school, stores, and other aspects of daily life.

With its clever refill cans, the go-to olive oil for TikTok chefs and shoppy shops is making a play for sustainability-minded consumers—with characteristic playfulness. In the two years since Graza launched in 2022, the olive oil maker’s dark-green, twist-top squeeze bottles have become ubiquitous. Graza didn’t exactly reinvent the wheel; the squeeze...

The history of skateboard design is a wild ride. This book gives it a thoroughly illustrated overview. The skateboard has had a wild ride. From its DIY beginnings in the 1950s to its counterculture heyday in the ’80s and ’90s to its inclusion in the 2020 Summer Olympics, skateboarding has been considered variously a toy, a scourge, a sport, and a...