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How do you set a tone of collaboration that sticks—especially with someone that sees the negotiation as win-lose, and they want you to lose?

It’s easier than you might think.

The secret to gaining the upper hand in negotiation is simple: Give the other side the illusion of control.

The artificial intelligence revolution isn’t coming, it’s already here.

Take it from Gov. Jared Polis, a veteran of the tech startup scene introduced as Colorado’s “innovator in chief” Wednesday at a Denver Startup Week panel on the evolution of technology and its impact on everyday life.

Impossible Science curator Jason Latimer has a deep passion for magic and science alike, combining them in his live performances to great effect. In this exclusive snippet from our interview, Latimer explains the trick he believes has the most scientific relevance.

Via MIT Media Lab Rodney Mullen is Exclusively Represented by CAL Entertainment The MIT Media Lab has added 11 members to the diverse group of visionary innovators and leaders it calls the Director’s Fellows. Now in its seventh year, the Director’s Fellows program links a vast array of creators, advocates, artists, scientists, educators, philosophers, and […]

Speaking at Fortune’s CEO Initiative conference on Tuesday, the futurist and inventor gave a condensed history of humankind that highlighted what he described as the essentially positive influences of technology. In the millions of years since hominids first arrived, we have been making tools and “inventing solutions to the hard technical problems that kept people from thriving,” he said.

Esther Wojcicki is Exclusively Represented by CAL Entertainment Back in the ’80s, my daughters were known in our Tolman Drive neighborhood as the lemon girls. One day they noticed our neighbor’s lemon tree, and she nicely agreed to their plan of using it to start a business. They came up with a price (50 cents per […]

If her own powerful brood—daughters Susan, Janet, and Anne—is any indication, her methods work.

How do we shake ourselves out of our extremely personalized versions of reality?

As companies build out their sales organizations, I find that more and more are putting younger team members–millennials–in charge of connecting with buyers at earlier stages of the sales cycle. That helps explain why, as I train and advise sales teams, many report a rising inter-generational challenge.

Richard Greene is Exclusively Represented by CAL Entertainment In the next few months we can create the biggest, most profound change to our system of government since the Bill of Rights, the 13th Amendment ending slavery, the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote or the 26th Amendment giving the vote to 18 year olds. We can […]