Business Unusual

Meditation is a 2500 year old practice that has real benefits for managing stress during a pandemic. The companies that are creating products to make it easier are likely to thrive even during this time of adversity. Image credit: David Brooke Martin - Unspalsh See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

How to balance free speech with constructive engagement and manage it all as a business. Read the article Image: © Peter KováÄ? /123rf.com     See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest: Toby Shapshak | Publisher at Stuff magazine See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A look at some of the shift predicted by TrendWatching that may take hold as a result of the impact of Covid-19 and the growing impact of climate change.  Image credit: "Day 234 let me look into my crystal ball" by terri_bateman is marked with CC0 1.0 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of the worst years this century did not stop some industries from their best year yet. 2020 was supposed to be the year that offered the best view of the future, a 2020 view. Turns out it was not such a good view. Despite it being one of the worst years of the century some businesses will end the year with it being one of their best. Like most disruption, it never affects everyone the same way, changes harm some and benefits others...

The headline relates to vaccine origins, this is about how close we are to a Covid-19 vaccine. The word vaccine comes from the Latin word for cow. Edward Jenner created the first vaccine using the less harmful pox virus that infected cows to infect humans and so allow them to become immune to an infection from the more serious and often deadly human version of smallpox.  He did this in a way that would horrify us today...

500 million metric tons are produced a year, but environmental considerations are making alternatives look more attractive. The question is will we switch? image credit: Tookapic See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guest: Cliff de Wit | CTO and Co-Founder at Dexterity Digital See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In what was expected to be a $30 billion plus IPO, The listing was postponed following a meeting with the company and Chinese authorities.  This is the brief history of how we got here and what the future may hold for the payment giant. image credit: Ant Group See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Will Donald Trump win again, the two men that correctly predicted it in 2016 weigh in on 2020 Allan Lichtman and Helmut Norpoth have devised two very different models that have been very accurate so far. This year though their models do not predict the same outcome.  One of their models will prove to be the one to predict even the most unpredictable election, a race between two of the oldest candidates in a country ravaged by a pandemic and from parties that are now polar opposites...