After a career as an executive in tech and media, Diana Wu David felt she had lost her way. Her viral TED talks helped her realize many executives felt the same. Demoralisation and burnout were rampant, and people needed a roadmap for their careers and lives. Then Diana found her purpose.

Tech visionary Dragana Beara reveals what HR leaders should know about emerging technologies. Take a deep dive into digital transformation as she shares fascinating use cases, including how AR applications allow people to learn in real time and how immersive gaming experiences help talent acquisition and assessment.

How is new technology transforming the role of HR? What does it mean for the future of work? Thought leader and tech evangelist Dragana Beara gives us the big picture.

What if digital learning was not a compromise, but a chance to achieve even more? Dr Sanjeev Khagram shares a radical vision for transforming higher education and vocational learning. He is the Director-General and Dean of the Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University. Dr Khagram explains why educators have reason to be excited about digital learning, and what they need to do to make the most of it.

How can HR leaders can turn short-term fixes from the Covid-19 lockdown into sustainable solutions? UC Berkeley Haas School of Business faculty Alex Budak explains what it takes to be an HR changemaker.

How can L&D leaders emerge stronger from this crisis? In a series of interviews focused on recovery, MERIT invites experts to share their viewpoints and advice. Natasha Bonnevalle, partner, THNK School of Creative Leadership, discusses how to create learning programmes that achieve more with less and how to manage difficult emotions. The challenges for L&D leaders are formidable, she says, but there are ways to meet them with grace and purpose.

In an exclusive interview, Sabine Weishaupt, Head of Leadership Development Consulting and Initiatives at Deutsche Telekom, talks about her experience managing the Covid-19 crisis and about the future of L&D. Some of key her tips: give people room to laugh and cry, meditate, and turn competitors into collaborators.

How do we come out of the Covid-19 crisis? In the first interview in this series, Filipe Carrera, a speaker, coach, and university lecturer at IPAM Lisbon, explains why “this crisis was a wake-up call for most professionals”.

Philippe Gerbelot-Barrillon, Head of LinkedIn Learning France, shares how data can help companies meet L&D challenges and offer learning that is accessible and motivating.

As millions of people switch to remote work, HR should take the lead to ensure employee engagement, wellbeing, and performance. Virtual teams expert Peter Ivanov shares tips on how to do it.

70% of all corporate change initiatives fail because they do not involve top management. Award-winning author Margarita Mayo proposes a model for creating an innovation mindset from the top down.

Guillermo Cisneros Garrido, professor at ESADE Business School and four-time intrapreneur, shares his experiences and challenges, how learning drives intrapreneurship, how to manage failure, and much more.

Cavin-Morris Gallery was founded by a couple, Shari Cavin and Randall Morris, around 1980. The project unites their differences. “We have places where we diverge,” Cavin tells me as we chat in a sunlit private room behind the Chelsea gallery. Objects ranging from birdhouses to ritual masks line the walls. Cavin remembers that one of their first fights as a couple was over a Haitian wax skull.

In 1988, Domenico Zindato was looking for a place where he could fit in. West Berlin offered such a place. The walled-in city was the global capital of drifters, dropouts, and avant-garde visionaries: a haven where “with very little, you could find what you were looking for and do whatever you liked.” Zindato felt “immediately accepted.” He got involved in the city’s nightlife, making sets and decor for parties. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, semi-legal raves took over vacated buildings...

The BMW Guggenheim Lab in Berlin may have had a difficult start, but in retrospect, the project was a fruitful one. “I am very happy that it did take place,” Matthias Köhne, mayor of the Berlin borough of Pankow, told the news agency dapd on Friday. After the proposal for the Lab was met with hostility in the popular but socially deprived Kreuzberg neighborhood in June, the future of the project remained uncertain. Köhne, a politician from the Social Democratic Party, supported its relocation to his borough. “The people from New York were a bit afraid after that... At first it was a big struggle, a big effort to make sure that the Lab stays in Berlin,” Köhne told dapd.

These stories of cunning crooks and unsolved crimes make us ask: was swindling so widespread in 1600s China? What caused the deep social changes and moral anxieties of the time? To learn more about the stories’ background, we talked to...

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