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It's Not About the Coffee: Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks By Howard Behar, Janet Goldstein, Howard Schultz

It's Not About the Coffee: Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks By Howard Behar, Janet Goldstein, Howard Schultz

During his many years as a senior executive at Starbucks, Howard Behar helped establish the Starbucks culture, which stresses people over profits. He coached hundreds of leaders at every level and helped the company grow into a world-renowned brand. Now he reveals the ten principles that guided his leadership-and not one of them is about coffee. Behar shows that if you think of your staff as people (not labor costs) they will achieve amazing results. He discusses the importance of building trust, telling hard truths, thinking independently, and more. And he shares inside stories...

A non-profit funded in part by Mark Zuckerberg has laid out four visions... By Matt Rosoff

A non-profit funded in part by Mark Zuckerberg has laid out four visions... By Matt Rosoff

A non-profit funded in part by Mark Zuckerberg has laid out four visions of what the Bay Area could look like in 2070, and three of them are bleak

SPUR, a non-profit devoted good government planning in the San Francisco Bay Area, has published a paper laying out four possible visions for the region in 2070, and three of them are decidedly bleak.

The organization is supported by members, and the paper lists among its benefactors both of Mark Zuckerberg's organizations -- Facebook and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative -- alongside local biotech giant Genentech (owned by Swiss pharma giant…

Lacoste adopts temporary logo to help endangered species By David Blank

Lacoste adopts temporary logo to help endangered species By David Blank

(CNN) Lacoste temporarily replaced its polo shirts' crocodile logo with the images of 10 endangered species to help counter the threat of extinction.

The shirts, which are part of a limited run supporting the "Save Our Species" campaign that launched during Paris Fashion Week on March 1, have sold out.

Replacing the crocodile above the left breast of the shirt are the Gulf of California porpoise, the Burmese roofed turtle, Sumatran tiger, the Anegada ground iguana and the northern…