Why powerful people are rarely punished appropriately
Justine Sacco, Lindsey Stone, and Alicia Ann Lynch all lost their jobs and suffered tremendous emotional distress from the vitriol unleashed in the social media world on each of them. Their "crime":...
View ArticleWhat Rebekah Brooks can teach us about power
Rebekah Brooks, former editor of the U.K.'s The News of the World and The Sun, confidante of British Prime Minister David Cameron, and a favorite of Rupert Murdoch, is back. Acquitted of phone hacking...
View ArticleVladimir Putin’s ebbing power
Until recently Vladimir Putin was customarily included in lists of the world's most powerful people. Throughout a nearly 16-year reign, Putin's brand of leadership--full of swagger, bare-chested photo...
View ArticleIntroducing Power Sheet, Fortune’s daily guide on leaders and leadership
I’d like to invite you to be among the first to receive a new Fortune newsletter: Power Sheet, our daily take on leaders and leadership. Why are we launching this newsletter now? No one else is telling...
View ArticleCEOs say they are willing to change, but their companies aren’t even close
Are those occupying the corner office poised to lead us to a less rigid and more collaborative workplace? There’s cause for hope, based on a new set of statistics derived from more than 13,000...
View ArticlePower Home Remodeling named the Best Workplace for Millennials
The career paths of Asher Raphael and Corey Schiller (35 and 33, respectively) at Power Home Remodeling Group are telling of the unique culture of ambition that prevails at this Chester,...
View ArticleHumans are underrated
As the Pepper robot from Softbank scurries about your home or office, it reads your emotions by your words, tone of voice, facial expressions, and body language. It then responds in all those ways; its...
View ArticleThese scientists just fired the world’s most powerful laser
Researchers at Osaka University said Monday that they successfully fired the world’s most powerful laser beam. The energy captured in its concentrated beam was equal to 1,000 times the world’s...
View ArticleTV engagement secrets from Twitter, everyone’s favorite second screen
When it comes to major television events like the Emmy Awards or the Super Bowl, one of the places people increasingly turn for commentary and real-time analysis is Twitter, and the social network...
View ArticleSchneider Electric CEO: Let’s celebrate efficiency
Jean-Pascal Tricoire, chairman and CEO of electricity generation equipment maker Schneider Electric, is a big fan of efficiency. He says, for example, that allowing machines rather than humans turn off...
View ArticleDrone knocks out power for hundreds of Californians
Squirrels chew through power lines all the time. Now prepare for drones to do the same. An unmanned aerial vehicle flew into power lines in West Hollywood on Monday afternoon, reports ABC7 Eyewitness...
View ArticleWhy CEOs Today Will Have Shorter Tenures
No matter if you look at the Vatican or the military or the C-suite, power is not just dissipating--it's decaying. That was the message from Mois?s Na?m, author of The End of Power, at the Fortune...
View ArticleSome Texas Residents Are Getting Free Electricity
Texas is generating more wind power than utility companies know what to do with, so they’re handing it out for free. More than 50 companies in the state offer overnight plans that charge higher fees...
View ArticleMizzou Football Shows the Power of Student Labor
This past week, all eyes turned on Columbia, Missouri, as the actions of University of Missouri students, and particularly student athletes, resulted in the resignation of Mizzou’s president, a...
View ArticleSalesforce Signs Contract with Texas Wind Farm
UPDATE: This story was updated Jan. 14 to clarify the relationship of these agreements to Salesforce’s current power consumption. Mere weeks after disclosing its first big clean energy contract, cloud...
View ArticleIowa Caucus Results: Political Power Is Shifting to the Masses
What does Donald Trump have in common with Aung San Suu Kyi? Absolutely nothing, obviously, except maybe this: On Monday, both illustrated a broad trend about where power comes from, and it may...
View ArticleApple Issues Recall On Some MacBook USB-C Cables
If you’re a MacBook owner, you will want to listen up. Apple has issued a recall on some charge cables bundled with the company’s MacBook. Dubbed the Apple USB-C Charge Cable Replacement Program, the...
View ArticleGoogle Steps Up Its Server Smarts
Google wants to share its data center hardware smarts with the world. The search giant said on Wednesday that, along with cloud computing company Rackspace, it's co-developing new server designs that...
View ArticleA Terrible Leadership Style That Never Goes Away
Our topic from Monday morning's news is a leadership style that never goes away, despite its remarkably poor record: dictatorship. While the relevant news is usually about nations, the issue arises...
View ArticleWhy Leaders Must Give Away Power in Order to Keep Influence
For the past 20 years, I have studied a deep irony in our social lives: the power paradox. The power paradox is this: We gain power and the capacity for influence through social practices that advance...
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