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2 days ago | kornferry.com | Glenn Rifkin

By Glenn Rifkin The Former president and Civil War hero Ulysses S. Grant had just completed his memoir, days before his death in 1885, but didn't have a publisher. As it turned out, his friend and editor, Mark Twain, had a plan. Instead of accepting a publisher's small royalty, the famed author and raconteur promoted the book by fanning out 10,000 former Union soldiers to go door-to-door. The upshot: The Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant became the first mega-selling presidential autobiography.

1 week ago | kornferry.com | Meghan Walsh

By: Meghan Walsh It's a tempting idea, especially in these tough economic times, when so many CEOs are watching their firm's stock price plunge and earnings forecast miss the mark. Why not hire two people for the corner office instead of one, and get double the talent? A new study, chronicled in the Harvard Business Review, makes a case in favor of the two-heads-are-better-than-one solution, which several high-profile firms have tried in recent years.

1 week ago | kornferry.com | Kurt Vonnegut |Junot Diaz |Junot Díaz |Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie |Harper Lee

The question used to be whether to read the book or watch the movie. These days, of course, there is a third option, which is to listen to the audio version of a book narrated by the familiar voice of a favorite actor. A-list celebrities are venturing into the burgeoning audiobook scene, bringing life to children's books, adding new textures to old classics, and even making personal memoirs more intimate by reciting them firsthand.

2 weeks ago | kornferry.com | Meghan Walsh

Watch two experts discuss the health issues caused in the office on our Briefings Podcast. By: Meghan Walsh Parneet Pal grew up and went to medical school in Mumbai (then known as Bombay), the financial center of India and the world's sixth-most populous city. It was an interesting time and place to be contemplating health. While the South Asian country remained rooted in its ancient traditions, it was also barreling forward into modernity.

2 weeks ago | kornferry.com | Renee Morad

By Renee Morad Broadway theaters are still dark. The Olympics are out for the first time in 75 years. And so on.... As the wait continues for vaccines on a widespread level, the world remains in the grip of a pandemic that has cut off the massive events that were once such a routine part of life. But not all events. As everyone knows, professional sports leagues from Major League Baseball to the National Basketball Association found ways to hold games and televised championships.