In the aviation industry, miscommunication can be fatal. More than 1,000 deaths in plane crashes have been due to communication failures, often between crews that speak English and crews that don’t.

Since 2001, English has been the international language of pilots and air traffic controllers, and airlines across the world have invested in English training programs for pilots, flight attendants, and other customer-facing staff.

Are you ready to go to Mars? If Elon Musk has his way you will soon.

I read an article the other day that laid out Musk's idea to colonize Mars. In fact, he has an entire product roadmap detailing the process. The roughly 50-million-mile trip would involve a spaceship that can be refueled while floating in Earth's orbit. Reporters called it a "wildly ambitious plan."

I think two things make the culture at LearnVest really special. First, we have a massive mission: we believe every American family deserves a financial plan and that you should be able to be optimistic about your financial future if you get the data you need. It’s a pretty big mission. There are 50 million households that badly need this information. But every employee has had their own stressful experience with money, and that’s why people join this team and work really, really hard—because they love that mission.

One-quarter of Americans in some way made money from the gig economy last year, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. 

Twenty-four percent of those surveyed earned money using a digital platform. Of that segment, 8 percent earned money by completing a job or task (like working for Instacart or Uber). Including some overlap, 18 percent of those surveyed made money by selling goods online. Only 1 percent made money by home-sharing through Airbnb or another site. 

On Wednesday, President Obama named 21 Americans—from artists to athletes to engineers—who will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on November 22. The medal is "a tribute to the idea that all of us, no matter where we come from, have the opportunity to change this country for the better," President Obama said in the official White House post. "These 21 individuals have helped push America forward, inspiring millions of people around the world along the way."

Small businesses have an increasing chance at surviving their first 5 years in Kansas City, but overall business ownership hasn't increased, according to a new report from the Kauffman Foundation. 

The Main Street Entrepreneurship Index measures established small business activity — that’s businesses five years and older, with fewer than 50 employees. 

Leading Ladies It's difficult to narrow down all the badass women of 2016 to just 15, but this impressive group is worthy of the effort. Meet the women changing everything about how people generate energy, invest, and care for their health.

I’ve had this conversation many times. A friend calls me up from: Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, wherever and says, “I’m thinking about moving to Los Angeles (or SF, NY, etc) and I’d love to start interviewing. Let me know if you hear of anything interesting.”

Startups fail for a wide array of reasons: A lack of money (duh). Poor marketing. A pivot gone awry. Legal challenges.

Outside of those common issues, another, different reason manages to top the list year after year. Analytics firm CB Insights recently found that about half of startups fail because of inadequate market need. A similar study uncovered the same lead trend in 2014.

I like how wikipedia goes about this question: Must be one of the 193 current sovereign state Go by the date that the nation itself accepts as its symbolic starting point

China is indisputably one of the oldest. It was unified by the Qin Dynasty in 212 BC and has a line of dynasties that can be clearly traced to today. (The Communists don't call themselves a dynasty but that's what they are). 

Wikipedia puts Iran as being older than China, saying that the proto-Elamite kingdom on the Iranian Plateau in 3,200 BC was the beginning of that nation. Seems like a stretch to me, but I don't know enough about Persian history to make a judgement.

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For Silicon Valley and the tech sector, the ground has dramatically shifted in the last seven days. In the months leading up to the election, the sector overwhelmingly contributed more money to Hillary Clinton than Donald Trump. There were persistent rumors that some of the Valley’s brightest minds, including Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates, were being considered for top positions in a Clinton administration. And Clinton’s tech platform read so much like the industry’s wish list that some joked that it was a love letter to the Valley.

As four technology trends reshape the global automotive sector, customer preferences are moving away from its traditional strongholds, such as chassis and engine development. This shift in customer preferences and the sheer size of the automotive sector have attracted new players: a potent mix of large high-tech companies and start-ups. Both differ from the automotive incumbents on virtually every level.

Coaching and mentoring across age groups makes sense. There is surely much each can learn from the other. We typically imagine that the young can help the old understand technology and the old can impart general wisdom.

But is there more insight to possible cross-generational learning than these commonplace observations? What else, specifically, can the young learn from the old, and the old from the young?

Scarcely a presentation on marketing trends is complete without reference to the Boomer, Gen X, Gen Y, and Gen Z segments and allusions to each generation’s unique expectations, behaviors, attitudes, and values. The grand conclusion is always that these distinct demographic segments define generation-specific consumption patterns that marketers ignore at their peril. Gen Xers, born between the mid-1960s and 1980s, are the successor generation to Boomers, born between the end of World War II and the mid-1960s, and each successive generation takes up about 20 years.

When your small startup gets acquired by a megacorporation like Amazon the impact is life-changing.

That's exactly what happened to Cambridge entrepreneur William Tunsall-Pedoe back in 2012.

The artificial intelligence (AI) guru sold his voice recognition app Evi to Amazon for a reported $26 million (£21 million), becoming an Amazon employee in the process.

Enjoy spending time with your coworkers this holiday season, because many of them are likely to be gone by this time next year.

According to a recent survey of 3,300 employees across 14 countries by Dale Carnegie Training, 26% of U.S. employees say they will look for a new job within the next 12 months, and 15% are already actively looking for a new job. In total, more than 40% of all employees are at risk of leaving their job in the coming year.

The lure of the top corner office is strong, but there’s a reason not everybody grows up to be the head of a company—the job is a massive undertaking. CEOs are asked to do it all: setting strategy, closing deals, hiring people, firing people, calming irate customers, fixing broken light switches. And sometimes that’s just by 10 a.m. on Monday.

Of course, the job doesn’t end there. Monster talked to several CEOs to find out what must-haves you need before you can consider yourself cut out for the gig.

Myriad blogs and self-help books tout the benefits of having a mentor: that person that helps guide you up your career beanstalk. But finding a mentor can often seem elusive. Perhaps that’s because looking for a single person to lead you through your career isn’t the right approach.

"I don't think anyone should have one mentor unless you have one problem for the rest of your life," insists Liz Wessel, cofounder and CEO of WayUp, a startup aimed at connecting college students with jobs.

EY has named J.W. “Bill” Marriott, Jr., Marriott (MAR) International Executive Chairman, its 2016 US EY Entrepreneur of the Year. The honor was announced at the EY Strategic Growth Forum in Palm Springs, California.

The legendary hotelier credits hard work and high expectations for his associates as two key reasons for his success. Under his more than 50 years of leadership, Marriott has grown from a family restaurant business into the world’s largest hotel chain.

FREDERICTON (GNB) – Private-sector entrepreneur David Alston has been appointed as the province’s new chief entrepreneur in residence. This announcement is in line with the Economic Growth Plan's "innovation" pillar.

“Making government more innovative and efficient is essential to advancing New Brunswickers’ priorities of economic growth, education and health care,” said Premier Brian Gallant, who is also minister responsible for innovation. “By appointing David as chief entrepreneur in residence, we are harnessing his experience and know-how to foster innovation, inside and outside of government.”