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ALT This book sheds light on the intricate relationship between geopolitics and business and the essential interdependence between corporations and geopolitics. Despite apparent animosity, practical solutions and theories proposed by geopolitics find resonance within the business world, and vice versa. Concepts like critical theory, disruption, hegemony, strategic rivalry, and cost-effectiveness hold common ground in both realms, even though they have historically been disregarded.

ALT Rejection Sensitivity: The psychological cost for gaining social capital Does the fear of rejection stop people from networking? Professors Jung Won Lee, ESSEC Business School, Xi Zou, Nanyang Business School, and Abigail Scholer, University of Waterloo, explore the intricacies of rejection sensitivity in an organization and why people should overcome it.

ALT In these times of massive travel, we may have the impression that wherever we go in the world, airports, hotels, and tourist attractions are more or less the same. While we may come back home relaxed, chances are that we did not discover much new. We only passed through varieties of the same travel experience. However, true travel is different. A long time ago, travelling was sometimes a risky endeavour, taking long periods of time, without a complete certitude of what would happen. More importantly, travelling implied a profound, life-changing change in the traveller. One came back as a different person. The expression remains today: a “well-travelled person”.

ALT Very few things are as malleable and rule-stricken as language, composition, and rhetoric. In 2022 alone, Merriam-Webster added 370 new words to the English dictionary. But certain grammatical rules have been in place for centuries. Perhaps it is this contradictory, confounding, and ever-evolving nature of language that allows trained writers to still overwrite artificial intelligence (AI). However, a recent paper suggests that even writing-intensive professions are exposed to AI, with 80-100% of the US work force affected (Eloundou et al., 2023).