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A $24 billion Dutch lender is cutting its workforce—and to get the remaining staff on board, the CEO is having sandwiches with them
The $24 billion Dutch bank ABN Amro is cutting a fifth of its workforce over the next three years—so how is its CEO Marguerite Bérard rallying the troops? By sacrificing her long meals and talking over the growing pains with staffers over weekly lunches. “I now take lunch early and at my desk,” Bérard told…
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The billionaire Anthropic cofounder who majored in literature and says knowing how to ask the right question beats knowing how to code
AI may be restoring the importance of the liberal arts degree, at least according to the cofounder of one of the industry’s biggest players. Jack Clark, a billionaire cofounder of Anthropic and a former journalist who majored in English literature with creative writing, said his literary education and knowledge of “the kind of stories that…
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Coca-Cola chairman calls work-life balance a ‘weird phrase’ and says success is down to survival—’kind of like Squid Game’
The path to the C-suite can feel long, uncertain—and at times, brutally competitive. Just ask Coca-Cola executive chairman James Quincey, who says his rise to the top had less to do with careful planning and more to do with endurance. “In the end, how did I get to where I am?” Quincey said in a…
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Dirty Jobs host Mike Rowe is giving away $10 million to get Gen Z into trades—and says the skills gap has never been worse
Television host Mike Rowe saw it all on the set of Dirty Jobs. The Discovery Channel reality series brought audiences into the worlds of some of the most physically taxing and messy trade roles. It explored the daily routines of sewer inspectors, the grimy yet essential work of septic tank technicians, and the grim conditions…
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United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby lies on his office floor and takes 20-minute naps—and he says it doesn’t mean he’s accomplished any less
CEOs have their own quirks when it comes to running their companies, from shoes off policies to meeting-free afternoons. United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby said an office nap is his trick to staying sharp over his decades-long career in business. “A thing I do that people have thought is weird is that, throughout my whole…
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Warren Buffett’s first tax return showed $7 owed to the IRS. The then-paperboy and former Berkshire Hathaway CEO is now worth $143 billion
Warren Buffett, who is worth $143 billion today and was once the richest man in the world, was once making mere pennies as a teenage paper boy. The Oracle of Omaha filed his very first tax return in 1944 when he was just 14 years old for his earnings delivering newspapers in Washington, D.C. He…
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Palantir CEO says working at his $316 billion software company is better than a degree from Harvard or Yale: ‘No one cares about the other stuff’
Palantir CEO Alex Karp may have three degrees to his name—but he’s fed up with higher education. The billionaire took a shot at elite universities, including Harvard and Yale, during one his AI firm’s earnings calls, saying degrees don’t matter once you land at Palantir: “This is by far the best credential in tech. If…
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He was coding at 12 and became one of Google’s youngest ever CMOs—but now says Gen Z are better off ice skating than learning to code
Learning to code was once the fast-track ticket to success. It’s the self-taught skill that launched the careers of Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk. Even former President Barack Obama urged young people to learn to code. But according to one former Google CMO who started coding at 12, AI has just killed it.…
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‘It tastes like a Twinkie’: Major tech podcaster Kara Swisher says AI is overhyped for one simple reason—humans don’t like it
Artificial intelligence has quickly become the defining technology of the moment—promising breakthroughs from curing diseases to making space travel more routine, while also raising fears of widespread job disruption. But Kara Swisher isn’t convinced the technology will live up to the hype. On a recent episode of her podcast, On with Kara Swisher, the veteran…
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Rory McIlroy’s mom worked night shifts at a factory so her son could play golf. Now he’s worth $200M and is a two-time Masters champion
Rory McIlroy solidified himself as the biggest name in golf this weekend when he won the Masters for a second year in a row and is worth an estimated $200 million. But McIlroy came from much humbler beginnings. He grew up in a modest, semi-detached house in Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland, with two parents…