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Entrepreneurialism

Change your job

Stuck working from home? Thinking about what your company could be? There are people who can help you transform how your business runs and how you can do your job with more passion.

  • The Entrepreneurs #2
  • 15 min read
Change your job
Business

Fresh start

Tyrol’s capital Innsbruck is synonymous with idyllic alpine charm but its enterprising mindset makes it fertile ground for budding businesses and energetic entrepreneurs too.

  • Issue #131
  • 5 min read
Fresh start
Business

This is what success looks like

Does being your own boss mean weekend freedom or late nights? We asked eight successful entrepreneurs, from fashion to furniture, what their Friday evenings look like and what success really means to them.

  • The Entrepreneurs #1
  • 9 min read
Niclas Ahlström, founder of Made by Choice, sits on a couch with a young child and stuffed toys, with colorful artwork on the wall behind.
Wine

Observation: Front vine

When Russia annexed Crimea, Ukraine lost its wine-making region. Now its vintners are clinking glasses with the west.

  • Issue #126
  • 5 min read
Cork-textured loafers with metal hardware worn with grey socks on a green floor.
Business

Office politics

The way we work is changing fast, leaving business owners and managers with questions about flexible working, leave policies, and sustainability. We speak to people changing work.

  • Issue #126
  • 6 min read
Six illustrated portrait headshots of diverse professionals representing different perspectives on workplace change.
Urbanism

The opener

Why it’s time to kick off your shoes in the office, the drive to ban drive-thrus and some woolly wanderers flocking to Paris.

  • Issue #126
  • 7 min read
The opener
Business

Foot on the gas

Alain Visser, CEO of car-subscription company Lynk & Co, has chosen a youthful team who can teach him what’s ‘cool’ – just as long as it doesn’t involve reading management books or going running.

  • Issue #118
  • 7 min read
Foot on the gas
Business

Breathe in, breathe out

Taiwan's Yilan county has long been Taipei's rural escape. Since a mountain tunnel slashed commute times in 2006, this Pacific-coast city of rice paddies and surf breaks has become a genuine alternative to capital-city…

  • Issue #106
  • 16 min read
Breathe in, breathe out
Business

Work in progress

From food-loving French taking long lunch breaks to workaholic Japanese businessmen, the world continues to approach office culture in very different ways.

  • Issue #41
  • 11 min read
Work in progress

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