LONDON (Reuters) - More commuters should consider cycling or walking when Britain's coronavirus lockdown is eased to take the pressure off public transport capacity that is likely to drop by 90% under social distancing requirements, Transport Minister Grant Shapps said on Saturday. He urged people to continue to work from home where possible, but said those who did have to commute to work should consider cycling or walking rather than using their cars

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The nationwide tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases reached 59,662 on Saturday and the death toll rose to 1,981 with the country registering an increase of 95 deaths and 3,320 cases in 24 hours till Saturday morning, the Union Health Ministry said

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Darrell Rigby, Bain & Company partner and head of the firm's global retail practice. Also: Leon Gorman, chairman of L.L.Bean.

Paul Hemp, HBR senior editor, discusses the magazine's annual survey of ideas and trends that will make an impact on business.

Chris Zook, partner at Bain & Company and author of "Unstoppable: Finding Hidden Assets to Renew the Core and Fuel Profitable Growth."

Paul Saffo, technology forecaster and author of the HBR article "Six Rules for Effective Forecasting."

Richard Ogle, author of "Smart World: Breakthrough Creativity and the New Science of Ideas."

Marshall Goldsmith, executive coach and author of "What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful."

John Elkington, founder and chief entrepreneur of SustainAbility and coauthor of "The Power of Unreasonable People."

Marshall Goldsmith, executive coach.

Andrew Winston, founder of Winston Eco-Strategies and coauthor of "Green to Gold."

Lew McCreary, HBR senior editor and author of the article "What Was Privacy?"

Bill Drayton, founder and CEO of Ashoka.

Stewart Friedman, Wharton School professor and author of "Total Leadership: Be a Better Leader, Have a Richer Life."

Whitney Johnson, founding partner of Rose Park Advisors.

Julia Kirby, HBR editor at large.

Mansour Javidan, dean of research at the Thunderbird School of Global Management and coauthor of the HBR article "Making It Overseas."

Gregory Berns, the Distinguished Chair of Neuroeconomics at Emory University and author of "Iconoclast."

Tom Davenport, Babson College professor and coauthor of the HBR article "Competing on Talent Analytics."

Dr. Oliver Sacks, neurologist and author of "The Mind's Eye."

Don Tapscott, chairman of nGenera Insight and coauthor of "Macrowikinomics: Rebooting Business and the World."

Susanne Bruckmüller, research associate at the Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and coauthor of the HBR article "How Women End Up on the 'Glass Cliff'."

Zakary Tormala, associate professor of marketing at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.

Jonah Keri, sports and stock market writer; author of "The Extra 2%."

Sherry Turkle, MIT professor and author of "Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other."

Stefano Puntoni, professor at the Rotterdam School of Management and author of the HBR article "The Color Pink Is Bad for Fighting Breast Cancer."

Nancy Koehn, Harvard Business School historian and editor of "The Story of American Business."

Cathy Davidson, Duke University professor and author of "Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn."

Scott Berinato, HBR senior editor, featuring the ideas of Yale economist Robert Shiller, journalist Gregg Easterbrook, and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman.

Mihir Desai, Harvard Business School professor and author of the HBR article "The Incentive Bubble."

Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, CEO of the consultancy 20-first and author of "How Women Mean Business."

Frank Partnoy, professor of law and finance at the University of San Diego and author of "Wait: The Art and Science of Delay."

Gary Pisano, Harvard Business School professor and coauthor of "Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance."

Tom and David Kelley, leaders of IDEO and authors of the forthcoming HBR article "Reclaim Your Creative Confidence."

Michael Raynor, director at Deloitte Services LP and coauthor of the HBR article "Three Rules for Making a Company Truly Great."

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Walter Friedman, director of the Business History Initiative at Harvard Business School, on the pioneers of market prediction.

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Tiffany Shlain, filmmaker, on why we need more time to develop our inner selves.

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Raffaella Sadun, a professor at Harvard Business School, explains why seemingly common-sensical management practices are so hard to implement. After surveying thousands of organizations across the world, she found that only 6% of firms qualified as highly well-managed — and that managers mistakenly assumed they were all above average. She is a co-author of “Why Do We Undervalue Competent Management?” in the September–October 2017 issue of Harvard Business Review.

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Scott Kelly, a retired U.S. astronaut, spent 520 days in space over four missions. Working in outer space is a lot like working on earth, but with different challenges and in closer quarters. Kelly looks back on his 20 years of working for NASA, including being the commander of the International Space Station during his final, yearlong mission. He talks about the kind of cross-cultural collaboration and decision making he honed on the ISS, offering advice that leaders can use in space and on earth. His memoir is “Endurance: A Year in Space, a Lifetime of Discovery.”