Easy access and high rewards draw millions to careers in social media but agents say the challenges are underestimated

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Pushing against the move to seamless online efficiency can make us happier and safer

Four top headhunters reveal what boards are looking for now and the role of AI

Contenders include three former winners and titles on power, innovation and society

Heated rows over $1bn-grossing movie reflect The Odyssey’s enduring force

Children’s cute job hopes look unattainable, but they are still worth encouraging

Children’s cute job hopes look unattainable, but they are still worth encouraging

Rogue feeders are creating armies of Six-Dinner Sids, prompting felines to pile on the pounds and even pushing some owners to take legal action. The claws are out

Getting a company to implement recommended changes is a contact sport that only humans can play

Changes at the Australian Securities Exchange are the latest sign of a global rollback of diversity policies

Apple is suing OpenAI for alleged theft but Silicon Valley is founded on the exchange of ideas

Here are the ways leading companies are already responding to the AI revolution in professional services

Incentives to use new tools are changing as costs start to hit home

Carmaker will have to cultivate capacity to improvise as it navigates the profound uncertainty it faces

Instant summaries sound the death knell for the bullet-point books that prey on our insecurities

Port Vale football club has just been relegated, but its owner says: you win or you learn

Andrew Hill selects his best mid-year reads

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Club president Florentino Pérez’s aim of bringing in outside investors is high risk

Ferrari Luce’s launch caused more heat than light but has lessons for incumbents

Ordinary investors can at last bet directly on AI’s potential — with caveats

Sophia Smith Galer’s moving book is a rallying call to revive minority tongues amid increasing globalisation

The UK institution, under the first new operator since its launch, is battling falling sales and new rivals

Author of the start-up bible has turned his attention to corrupting influences at the heart of contemporary capitalism

Many of the brightest workers steer clear of such businesses because promotions are scarcer and rewards lower

The posters have been shared on PSG’s social media accounts and have received almost six million views across various channels

From the inspection towers of 19th-century factories to the data architecture of Amazon warehouses, Henry Snow casts those who surveil workers as capitalism’s villains

Humans must get used to living and working with the quirks of machine-written text

New AI tools help chairs and directors with prep and research but are unlikely to be granted a vote

Boards should heed the lessons of the last record surge in big M&A in 2015

Many executives will be tempted by Meta’s plans for AI version of Mark Zuckerberg with interest

[FREE TO READ] Chief executive is training and testing his own character as part of wider push to develop ‘personal superintelligence’

[FREE TO READ] Police, shop owners and policymakers must combine to fight organised retail theft

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