In a new book, Wharton's Jerry Wind and his co-authors argue that creativity is a learnable skill that becomes more powerful when paired with intelligent machines.

In an excerpt from his book ‘The Leader’s Brain,’ Wharton neuroscientist Michael Platt talks about three leadership skills that are critical in an increasingly automated world.

Pete Hegseth is bringing his fundamentalist interpretation of Christianity into the Pentagon.

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Business professor Christian Busch makes the case that serendipity is a skill, resulting from a mindset that allows you to see and act on opportunities in seemingly unrelated facts or events.

Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki explains that whether we are dealing with business, politics, or personal matters, it’s possible — and advantageous — to train ourselves to be more empathic.

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Candidates closer to the political center, from both parties, continue to fare better in most elections than those farther to the right or left. This pattern may be the strongest one in electoral politics today, but it is one that many partisans try to obscure and many voters do not fully grasp.

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DM As many wise people have shared, across a variety of contexts, human social attentiveness and caring (aka: compassion) diminishes as a function of "distance" (broadly defined in numerous ways, not only physical). In other words, self-care and immediate family care typically reside at our "care epicenter," ...while our "extended concern, attention and care" for all others suffers varying degrees of decline, thus encompasses incremental reduction of moral social thought, ac

Demand for cultural commentary is higher than it’s ever been—but now that commentary is coming from unconventional new sources.

Data show a resilient economy. But that largely reflects spending by the rich, while others pull back amid high prices and a weakening labor market.

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Small No Kings event puts love ahead of politics in rural Kansas town where immigrants are detained . Thank you Kay! ... "One step at a time!"

The largest private employer in the U.S. increased wages in a bid to jump-start sales. Investors needed to be convinced. Quick Summary Walmart’s 2015 decision to raise its starting wage to $9 an hour, impacting nearly half of its one million U.S. hourly workers, initially caused a 10% stock drop. Since 2015, Walmart’s U.S. sales have grown annually, with global sales reaching $681 billion last year, and its shares have more than doubled in five years. Average hourly pay for

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Effort would install ally at agency’s criminal unit who has drawn up list of investigative targets Related Also Related Also related Also related Quick Summary of First Link Above The Trump administration is preparing changes at the IRS that could facilitate criminal inquiries into left-leaning groups and Democratic donors. Gary Shapley, an adviser to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, is compiling a list of potential targets, according to people familiar with the matter. Th

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