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Having served in executive roles at LEGO and Apple, and now running my own startup at Uplift Labs, I’ve been put in a few tight situations with some pretty high stakes involved. But I’m not sure anything compares to one challenge I had to meet as the President of Tesla Japan: the 2014 launch of the Model S for Japan.I had led other launches in the past, and I estimated that I’d have about five months to put it together. But at Tesla things move fast, and Elon Musk came to me and said, “Get it done in five weeks.” (I now…

Some people can move back in with mom and dad if they have to, or at a minimum, crash on their aunt or sister's couch until they get their priorities in order. That provides a cushion. But that was never a possibility for me.I didn't have a strong support system growing up. I always knew that if I ran into trouble while building my career, I might have to sleep in my crappy car with a broken windshield.That never happened, thankfully, but the possibility was always in the background as I started my journey to becoming an…

Breadcrumb Trail Links Books 'Can you please make me a bagel with cream cheese to go? I’m starving!' No one believes I said that as I lay there crushed, waiting on an ambulance, but I did Publishing date: Feb 22, 2021  •  February 22, 2021  •  7 minute read  •  Join the conversation Musicians need to get paid, even if you missed the session because you were crushed in a bagel store. Getting them bagels. Photo by Getty Images Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are…

When I first wrote about AIDS in 1981, the acronym had yet to be coined; the strange new illness, which seemed to affect only gay men, was dubbed grid — gay-related immune deficiency. In the four decades since, AIDS has become, arguably, the most deadly pandemic in human history. At least 36 million people have died of AIDS, and another 40 million are still living with HIV, the human immunodeficiency virus that causes aids. (Of course, nothing compares to the Black Death. The bubonic plague killed somewhere between 75…

by F. Haider Alvi, Deborah Hurst, Janice Thomas and Martha Cleveland-Innes, The Conversation How do we capitalize on COVID-19 initiated change to build better education systems for the future? Credit: Chris Montgomery/Unsplash One…