The Best Articles in Business
The most useful articles and videos in Business from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Business Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved in Business by Refind users in 2023.
Videos
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How to come up with good business ideas
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How Working Hours May Be a Recession Indicator
Employees are actually working fewer hours as hiring booms, which could be a sign of incoming layoffs—and a possible recession. The current average number of...
Storytelling with Nancy Duarte: How to craft compelling presentations and tell a story that sticks
Nancy Duarte is the CEO of Duarte Inc. and has helped create over 250,000 presentations for influential business leaders across the globe, including Apple, T...
Is anything ever really free? FreeWater is challenging our economic model
27 million likes on TikTok. A $0.00 product. How does the ‘FreeWater’ company work?Subscribe to Freethink on YouTube ► https://freeth.ink/youtube-subscribe U...
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How to Create Business Momentum
Whether you are starting a business or been at it for a while, one key to success is for your business to find momentum.
How to lose a monopoly: Microsoft, IBM and anti-trust
A big rich company, a company that dominates the market for its product, and a company that dominates the broader tech industry are three quite different things. Market cap isn’t power. IBM ruled…
How to Help a Business Thrive During an Economic Recession
It's possible to see an economic downturn (or recession) as an economic opportunity, rather than a detriment. And with the right strategies, you can help your business thrive under these conditions.
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The best way to unlock potential? Don’t focus on raw talent
By all accounts, Philipp Meyer is a talented writer. He has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His novels have been compared to the pantheon of Faulkner,…
«Meyer’s story is a reminder that our cultural obsession with raw talent is misguided. To truly unlock potential — either your own or that of the people you lead and teach — you must refine your shortcomings, too.»
How China took over the world’s online shopping carts
Chinese e-commerce platforms like Shein, Temu, and TikTok Shop are going global with big ambitions.
248. The 5 Dangers of Movement Without Progress
The difference between success and failure is making sure your movement leads to progress. You'd be surprised how often it doesn't.
«The fact that you are avoiding the most important thing that you need to do is the best example of you doing a lot of movement with no progress.»
Days of The Jackal: how Andrew Wylie turned serious literature into big business
The long read: Andrew Wylie is agent to an extraordinary number of the planet’s biggest authors. His knack for making highbrow writers very rich helped to define a literary era – but is his reign now…
Zara: The billion dollar missed opportunity 🧠
A borderline unusable user experience, littered with bugs and full of missed opportunities. Dive into a UX case study on Zara.com.
Short Articles
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How to avoid “death by LLM”
When Stack Overflow’s traffic apparently went into rapid decline this year, Elon Musk reacted on X with an epitaph: “Death by LLM.” (LLM stands for “large language model.”) His message initially sent…
«Create an AI roadmap now, not tomorrow»
A Few Stories About Big Decisions
In 1964, Warren Buffett owned shares in an old industry company with fading prospects. The company’s CEO viewed Buffett’s purchase as a threat to his job security, and offered to buy the shares back…
«George Marshall, then Army chief of staff, said after the war: “The leader in a democracy has to keep the people entertained. That may sound like the wrong word, but it conveys the thought.”»
How to Spot Corporate Bullshit ❧ Current Affairs
A new book shows that the same talking points have been recycled for centuries, to oppose every form of progressive change.
Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule
How the U.S. government came to rely on the tech billionaire—and is now struggling to rein him in.
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles in Business.
What makes a strategy great
Most so-called "strategies" are vague, wishful thinking, written once and never seen again. Don't do that. These are the characteristics of great strategy.
«Average players want to be left alone. Good players want to be coached. Great players want the coach to tell them the truth.»
A surprisingly radical proposal: Make people happier — not just wealthier and healthier
We finally have good data on what makes people happy. Why are we afraid to use it?
The three kinds of leverage that anchor effective strategies
Leveraging strengths -- not "fixing weaknesses" -- is how to win. Better when differentiated. Best when durable. Here's how to create leverage.
What every CEO should know about generative AI
Gen AI is evolving at record speed while CEOs are still learning the technology’s business value and risks. Here, we offer some of the generative AI essentials.
Credit card debt collection
Credit card debt is the waste stream of consumer finance. The debt collection industry ends up being sordid, for complex structural and microeconomic reasons.
Podcasts
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Nintendo's Origins
You may think you know the Nintendo story: a plumber named Mario, a princess named Zelda… and didn’t they buy the Seattle Mariners at some point? We thought we knew it too. And then we started…
Thought Leaders
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Gary Vaynerchuk
Family First. CEO of @Vaynermedia. 🐈⬛ Creator of @veefriends. Investor in Twitter, venmo, FB & more. Die hard @NYJets fan. @winetexts @vaynersports
MIT Sloan School of Management
Ideas made to matter.

General Assembly
We transform careers and teams — including more than one third of the Fortune 100 — through dynamic courses in coding, data, design, and business.

LSE Management
The Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/management
TASTE
All roads lead to dinner.
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