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How Leaders Create and Use Networks Most people acknowledge that networking—creating a fabric of personal contacts to provide support, feedback, insight, and resources—is an essential activity for an ambitious manager. Indeed, it’s a requirement even for those focused simply on doing their current jobs well. For some, this is a distasteful reality. Working through networks, they believe, means relying on “who you know” rather than “what you know”—a hypocritical, possibly unethical, way to get things done. But even people who understand that networking is a legitimate and necessary part of their jobs can be discouraged by the payoff—because they are doing it in too limited a fashion. Continued here

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4 Ways Busy People Sabotage Themselves When we’re chronically busy and stressed, we can fall into self-sabotaging behaviors. Four common traps are, first, to keep ploughing away when she should take a step back and prioritize. Second, we overlook simple solutions because stress has created tunnel vision. A third common trap is to avoid setting up systems that would help us save time in the long run. Finally, we might find ourselves using avoid-and-escape coping mechanisms, which can take sneaky forms, such as escaping into low-level tasks that can be easily accomplished rather than tackling the big, scary stressful tasks we know we should. Continued here

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The Easiest Way to Get a Flight Upgrade, According to Flight Attendants It's every economy passenger's dream to be whisked out of the main cabin and into the glamorous world on the other side of the curtain. If your frequent flier status leaves much to be desired, you may believe that this dream will never come to fruition — but you'd be wrong. Continued here

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Why Kids Make the Best Philosophers Picture a philosopher, and you'll probably come up with someone old and wise, like Socrates, or avant-garde, like Simone de Beauvoir. Or maybe you'll imagine an academic, toiling in a tweed jacket. Whatever image you've got, you've likely pictured an adult. But the truth is that philosophers are more common on preschool playgrounds than college campuses.That might sound odd, since we tend to think of kids as limited and literal thinkers. For a long time, that's the picture developmental psychology painted. Jean Piaget famously argued that all kids move through a set of developmental stages, arriving at the capacity for abstract thought at about age 12. Continued here

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Why thinking about inflation leads to more inflation America is dealing with its worst inflation in nearly 40 years. It could get worse if inflationary psychology takes hold. Continued here

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What the Best Presenters Do Differently Our minds are wired for story. We think in narrative and enjoy consuming content in story form. So understanding the difference between presenting and storytelling is critical to a leader’s ability to engage an audience and move them to action. Unfortunately, presentation software often gets in the way. Slides should be designed to complement a story, not to replace the storyteller. The author presents five storytelling strategies to help you stand out the next time you give a presentation. Continued here

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How to Map Out Your Digital Transformation If digital transformation is supposed to be meaningful and lasting, companies must think about changes in products and processes more than changes in technology. But many companies struggle to look past the shiny promises that usually accompany new technologies. As a result, they dedicate too many resources and too much attention to the technology side of digital transformation projects. One approach to counter this imbalance is to think of digitalization as business model innovation rather than technology-related change. The author shows how one simple, well-known tool — the business model canvas — can facilitate the necessary shift in perspective. Continued here

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Why distributed leadership is the future of management | MIT Sloan Managing the future of work requires a nimble mindset focusing on small, short-term wins, and a ‘cultivate and coordinate’ approach to leadership.Successfully leading a company into the future is no longer about 30-year strategic plans, or even 5- or 10-year roadmaps. It's about people across an organization adopting a strategic mindset and working in flexible teams that allow companies to respond to evolving technology and external risks like geopolitical conflict, pandemics, and the climate crisis. Continued here

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A Stanford Psychologist Says He’s Cracked the Code of One-Hit Wonders In September 1992, the band Blind Melon released their self-titled debut album. The record was mostly ignored until a music video for the song “No Rain,” featuring a girl in glasses dressed as a bumblebee, went berserk on MTV. The song rocketed up the Billboard Hot 100 charts. But that was the last time the band ever struck gold. Two decades later, Rolling Stone named “No Rain” one of the biggest one-hit wonders of all time. Continued here

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How to handle a lopsided friendship Kristen’s 12-year relationship with her best friend Heather was put to the test during the pandemic. (Both women’s names have been changed at Kristen’s request to protect their privacy.) Their experiences during the past few years couldn’t have felt more different: Kristen, a single, 35-year-old behavioral researcher in San Francisco, was unbearably lonely during the lockdown. Her best friend, Heather, also 35, married and living in Los Angeles, gave birth to her first child. Kristen expected Heather’s priorities to shift as she adjusted to being a new mom, but Kristen wasn’t prepared for how upsetting it would feel to be shuffled to an outer ring of her best friend’s life precisely when she needed Heather most. Continued here

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‘Sleeping on it’ helps you better manage your emotions and mental health – here’s why Instead of lying awake worrying, we're often told to "sleep on it" when making decisions both big and small. And there's actually a scientific basis for this advice. Sleep can influence our response to emotional situations, and helps us to manage our mental health.To understand why sleep and emotions are so connected, it's important to first understand what happens in the brain when we encounter something emotive. Continued here

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The Only 8 Exercises You Need to Be Strong for Life | Livestrong.com The effort you put into your workouts translates to everyday life, making things like sitting down on a chair and climbing a staircase easier. And an effective fitness routine should keep you moving about your daily activities with strength and confidence. Continued here

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See Inside the World's Skinniest Skyscraper There's a new skyscraper in New York, and architecture enthusiasts can't wait to see it. And though New York City can be an unforgiving place to call home - the cost of living is famously high, square footage is precious, and the traffic seemingly doesn't move - the Big Apple is one of the most beloved metropolises in the U.S. for a reason: the energy and ambition is unparalleled. And one area in which that appetite for boldness is particularly obvious is its architecture - specifically the daring structures that have shot up within the last few years. From Summit One Vanderbilt with its 1,300-foot-tall observatory to the Sir David Adjaye-designed Affirmation Tower that defies gravity, the enormous buildings are doing their part to redefine one of the most famous skylines. And the recently debuted residential skyscraper at 111 West 57th Street is shaking up Midtown in a big way. After all, it is the world's skinniest tower. Continued here

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An ocean of noise: how sonic pollution is hurting marine life Today’s oceans are a tumult of engine roar, artificial sonar and seismic blasts that make it impossible for marine creatures to hunt or communicate. We could make it stop, so why don’t we? Continued here

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Messy is the new beautiful on social media - Times of India New-age creators are all about embracing the messier side of life. Forget the pastel walls, manicured lawns, and perfect backdrops. A quick look at the profiles of fast-rising influencers such as Emma Chamberlain and Jazzy Anne will show you that the pictures that have crossed thousands of likes on their feeds are the ones showing unkempt beds, piles of laundry, half-eaten meals and desserts, and such. Continued here

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5 Principles of Purposeful Leadership The traditional model of the leader-hero who saves the day, knows it all, is the smartest person in the room, and is too often driven by power, fame, glory, or money is not appropriate in today’s environment. People today expect a different kind of leader. While each company needs to define its own leadership point of view, the author presents five attributes that characterizes leaders who are able to unleash the kind of human magic you see at work at some of the most high-performing companies. First, be clear about your purpose. Second, be clear about your role. Third, be clear about whom you serve. Fourth, be driven by values. Finally, be authentic. Continued here

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My Burnout Nearly Cost Me Everything. Now I Help Other Physicians Overcome It. Seventy-six percent of physicians report moderate to severe burnout, with the risk significantly higher among female than male physicians. While the reasons behind these findings may vary depending on the impacted person, many are rooted in the fact that the culture of medicine is still male-dominated and has yet to adapt to support the needs of women who also disproportionately shoulder caregiving responsibilities at home. If you’re considering entering this field, what can you do to avoid burnout? Continued here

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Don’t Buy the Myth that Every Startup Needs a Co-Founder Common wisdom suggests that when it comes to launching a startup, you need co-founders. But a new study finds that solo founders can in fact be successful — if they have the support of co-creators. Co-creators are individuals or organizations that play a critical role in helping a founder build their business, but without receiving the control or equity of a formal co-founder. Based on more than 100 interviews with solo founders, the authors describe three common types of co-creators: employees, alliances, and benefactors. Of course, working with a co-founder can be the right decision in some cases. But the research illustrates how co-creators can provide many of the same key resources, connections, and ideas as a co-founder might offer, with a lot less risk. Continued here

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What Stops People on Your Team from Leaving? A standard approach is to conduct exit interviews to understand why employees are resigning and devise a solution. But narrowing in on why people leave may extract a price: neglect of loyal and engaged employees who want to stay in the organization. Instead, managers should spend just as much time understanding why employees choose to remain in the company through “stay interviews.” These discussions involve asking key questions to your loyal employees that tackle common retention issues. These questions include: What’s your frame of mind today? Who do you feel connected to at work? What barriers can I remove for you? What new thing do you want to learn that will excite you and help you grow at work? Continued here

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Physical fatigue is in the brain as much as in the body | Psyche Ideas For much of the 21st century, biologists in this field had focused on the biochemical changes within the body. According to the prevailing theory, our muscles tire when they run out of the molecule glycogen, and with the build-up of toxic byproducts such as lactic acid that make it harder for the fibres to contract. (Since lactic acid is also a product of fermentation, your muscles are essentially being 'pickled', according to this theory.) This should be especially problematic with prolonged or intense exercise, if the heart struggles to pump enough fuel and oxygen around the body to replenish the supplies and convert the lactic acid back to glycogen. Continued here

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Leading an Exhausted Workforce Everyone is exhausted. People are coping with collective grief and trauma on a global scale, which means leaders have to learn and exercise new skills. The authors share steps you can take to foster healthy coping mechanisms and discourage unhealthy ones; help ward off some of the typical mistakes that people make under pressure; and ensure you don’t cause additional anxiety on top of what people are already dealing with. Continued here

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People spend more than half their day doing busy work, according to survey of 10,000-plus workers Office workers are spending more than half of their day doing busy work instead of the job they were actually hired for, according to a new survey of more than 10,600 global workers from Asana, a work management platform. Continued here

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Anti-aging supplement works in mice, maybe humans Dr. Rajagopal Viswanath Sekhar, associate professor of medicine-endocrinology at Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) in Houston, is the senior author of a new study that suggests the health and function of the body’s mitochondria can slow aging. Continued here

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Why We Remember Music and Forget Everything Else For many people, music feels like a part of our subconscious. It’s constantly playing in the background, whether we’re at a coffee shop, in the elevator, working from home, or even just walking down the street. Every year, Spotify tells us how many minutes we’ve spent listening to music. I spent 53,402 minutes in 2021—17 hours a week—which is far more time than I’ve spent doing most other things. In 2017, Nielsen estimated that Americans spend over 32 hours a week on average listening to music. It’s no surprise that we have such a strong memory for music and can easily recall lyrics and melodies, even if we haven’t heard them in years. Continued here

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Is it cheaper to have a bath or a shower? Your energy questions answered The million-dollar question. Brian Horne, a senior insight and analytics consultant at the Energy Saving Trust, says a kettle is more efficient than a hob for heating water as it is heated from the inside, whereas the pan is heated from the outside and needs to get warm first. Kettles will boil water faster and use fewer units of energy. But while gas hobs take much longer and use up to three times more energy in unit terms, the consumer group Which? says that because gas is cheaper than electricity (less than a third per unit), it works out slightly cheaper to boil water on a gas hob than using an electric kettle. This assumes you are boiling only the quantity you need, are using a lid and switch off the hob as soon as it has boiled. Continued here

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Why So Many COVID Predictions Were Wrong As many prominent policy makers reckon uncomfortably with persistent inflation after months of forecasting that the phenomenon would be transitory, I’ve started making a list of other pandemic predictions about the economy that never materialized. There was the eviction tsunami and the “she-cession” and the housing-market crash, and you can’t forget the state- and local-government deficit explosion. In each case, expectations set by economists, policy makers, advocates, and businesses have not been borne out. Let’s take them together, one by one. Continued here

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On This Southwest Airlines Flight, Almost Everything Went Wrong. The Company's Response Is the Best I've Seen Yet "There are two types of people," a friend once told me. "Those who will only fly Southwest Airlines, and those who will never fly Southwest Airlines." My friend was a relatively frequent traveler, and while I'm not usually a fan of oversimplification, in this case, I think he was right.  Continued here

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Make Resilience Your Company’s Strategic Advantage Too many organizations hold a narrow view of resilience as mainly ensuring short-term, operational continuity during crises. True resilience is more expansive: It’s a company’s capacity to absorb stress, recover critical functionality, and thrive in new circumstances. Resilience is not merely an operational consideration — it’s a potential strategic advantage that enables companies to capitalize on opportunities when competitors are least prepared. Here the authors explore five myths about resilience and offer seven actions to help leaders build a more resilient organization. Continued here

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Opinion | Ordinary People Don’t Think Like Economists. It’s a Problem. Expectations matter in economics. If people think inflation will rise, they will behave in ways that will help make it rise (e.g., asking for bigger raises). If they think the economy is about to grow robustly, they will get more confident, spend more and help create the future they anticipate. Continued here

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Nuclear fusion hit a milestone thanks to better reactor walls – this engineering advance is building toward reactors of the future In January 2022, the JET fusion experiment produced more power over a longer period of time than any past attempt. Two physicists explain the engineering advancements that made the result possible. Continued here

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Scientists have just told us how to solve the climate crisis – will the world listen? | Simon Lewis Amid the triple crisis of the war in Ukraine, the still-raging pandemic and escalating inflation, climate scientists have just pulled off a truly impressive achievement. They have stood firm and persuaded the world's governments to agree to a common guide to solving the climate emergency. Despite the despair of mounting global problems, the release of the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows some grounds for hope. Continued here

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The map of our DNA is finally complete. Here's what that means for humanity. Scientists are finally done mapping the human genome, more than two decades after the first draft was completed, researchers announced Thursday. About 8% of genetic material had been impossible to decipher with previous technology. Continued here

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The Most Important Scientific Problems Have Yet to Be Solved Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) was a neuroscientist and pathologist, and Spain’s first Nobel laureate. This excerpt from his book Advice for a Young Investigator was first posted on the MIT Press Reader on January 6, 2020. An essay on his remarkable scientific drawings appeared in Scientific American in 2015. Continued here

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The State of Globalization in 2022 As companies contemplate adjustments to their global strategies, it is important to recognize how much continuity there still is even in a period of wrenching change. The idea of a world where economic efficiency alone drives patterns of international flows was always a myth. Globalization has always been an uneven process, with cross-country differences and international conflicts significantly dampening international flows. That’s a big part of why — even before the present crisis in Ukraine — only about 20% of global economic output ended up in a different country from where it was produced. As the landscape shifts, global strategies must be updated, but managers should avoid the costly overreactions that tend to follow major shocks to globalization. Continued here

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The Unsung Force Digging Through Misinformation They're shining a light on QAnon, anti-vaxxing disinformation, and other conspiracy theories. Continued here

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Richard Dawkins on the Luckiness of Death We are born into the certitude of our eventual death. Every once in a while, something - perhaps an encounter with a robin's egg, perhaps a poem - staggers us with the awful, awe-filled wonder of aliveness, the sheer luck of it against the overwhelming cosmic odds of nonexistence. Continued here

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How to Make Great Decisions, Quickly As a new leader, learning to make good decisions without hesitation and procrastination is a capability that can set you apart from your peers. While others vacillate on tricky choices, your team could be hitting deadlines and producing the type of results that deliver true value. That’s something that will get you — and them — noticed. Here are a few of a great decision: Continued here

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How to Vet a Remote Workplace As more employees demand remote opportunities, the job market will be flooded with partially or fully remote roles. However, some of these companies will be offering opportunities that are less rewarding than they seem — and may result in buyer’s remorse. Candidates must do their due diligence and ask the right questions to determine if they are walking into a good hybrid or remote environment before accepting the job. Fortunately, candidates can learn a lot about a company’s effectiveness at remote work during the hiring process. The key is to look for attributes about the organization’s remote culture and ask pointed questions about the principles and norms that dictate the company’s overall culture and remote work experience. Continued here

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How The Simple Act of Showing Up Can Make You Successful In 2010, during the Great Recession, my dad and I decided to start a business. I was still in grad school and realized I had little chance to land a good job because the economy was still recovering from the financial crisis. Continued here

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Preparing for Your Company’s First Meeting with a Startup Collaborator To understand how corporations and startups can better collaborate, researchers studied 150 meetings between 108 deep tech startups and 34 corporation. They found that collaborations that moved past the first meeting shared three characteristics: They had clarity about their current and future needs; they were open-minded to the novel ideas of startups; and they assembled a team of technologists, business developers, and decision-makers who could engage with the current and future opportunities that the startups presented. Continued here

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What you eat can reprogram your genes – an expert explains the emerging science of nutrigenomics Scientists are just beginning to decode the genetic messages in your food – and how that may affect your health. Continued here

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The Meaning of Half a Degree: A New Way to Think about Climate Change Julia Baum, a marine biologist at the University of Victoria, in British Columbia, has been researching climate-threatened coral reefs for years. But recently she decided to make a change. “I’ve realized the best way I can help to save coral reefs is not to work on coral reefs,” she says. “It’s to work on the energy transition.” That’s because climate change is caused chiefly by the burning of fossil fuels, which now accounts for 86 percent of carbon dioxide emissions. And unless we rapidly transition to clean energy, all other efforts to save corals—or our warming planet—won’t matter. Continued here

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The Rise of the “Corporate Nomad” The rise of the corporate nomad will be inexorable in the wake of the pandemic. These are individuals who, while maintaining a full-time employment relationship with their organizations, will increasingly participate part-time in geographically dispersed initiatives and projects within their employer’s global network. The benefits are many.  It gives individuals a sense of financial stability while also allowing them be exposed to new people, new geographies, new cultures, new values, and new work projects without having to leave their current organization. Fostering this type of global exposure and contribution will also become an increasingly important and effective way for organizations to retain and develop top talent. It can provide individuals and corporations alike with an extraordinary chance to reap the benefits of job enrichment and change, without requiring individuals to jump into the wrong place with the wrong fit, and without creating a situation where organizations must replace great employees who should never have been lost in the first place. Continued here

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A Gentler, Better Way to Change Minds Stop wielding your values as a weapon and start offering them as a gift.What is the point of arguing with someone who disagrees with you? Presumably, you would like them to change their mind. But that's easier said than done: Research shows that changing minds, especially changing beliefs that are tied strongly to people's identity, is extremely difficult. As one scholar put it, this personal attachment to beliefs encourages "competitive personal contests rather than collaborative searches for the truth." Continued here

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Shane Warne: Do liquid diets work and are they safe? Shane Warne, who died from natural causes, had reportedly been on a liquid diet for 14 days - to try to lose weight quickly.Days before he died, he tweeted an old photo, saying: "The goal by July is to get back to this shape from a few years ago."Friends have said it was a regime he had tried several times before, although there is no evidence it was linked to his sudden death.So how safe are these diets and what is their effect on the body? Continued here

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The Quest for a Killer KPI Streamlined metrics can get people moving in the same direction and improve business performance. Continued here

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“A Friend of a Friend” Is No Longer the Best Way to Find a Job How do you get a job these days? The answer often involves networking — it isn’t what you know, it’s who, we’re told. But the type of networking that’s valuable has changed over time. In the 1970s, for example, weak ties were important (your child’s teacher, or the friend of a friend who you happen to meet at a party). That’s because they might be privy to open jobs outside your network. With the introduction of the internet, however, there is no shortage of job listings, leading to a glut of applications. Because of this, former coworkers and bosses who can speak to your talents in the office can help cut through the noise. This isn’t without problems, namely today’s relatively homogenous workplaces. So practically, if you’re recommending someone for a job, remember that you have to be thoughtful and ethical about it. And if you’re looking, remember to be good to the coworkers you have now. Continued here

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ADHD looks different in adults. Here are 4 signs to watch for By adulthood, ADHD symptoms may be more internalised but they can also cause grown up problems. Continued here

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The best- and worst-paying college majors, five years after graduation The top 10 majors earning the most five years from graduation are all related to engineering — except for computer science, which ranks fifth out of all majors. Of that top 10, the average yearly salary is just over $68,000, with computer engineering paying $74,000 in median wages — the most of all majors. Continued here

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How self-driving cars got stuck in the slow lane “I would be shocked if we do not achieve full self-driving safer than a human this year,” said Tesla chief executive, Elon Musk, in January. For anyone who follows Musk’s commentary, this might sound familiar. In 2020, he promised autonomous cars the same year, saying: “There are no fundamental challenges.” In 2019, he promised Teslas would be able to drive themselves by 2020 – converting into a fleet of 1m “robotaxis”. He has made similar predictions every year going back to 2014. Continued here

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Dostoyevsky, Just After His Death Sentence Was Repealed, on the Meaning of Life "To be a human being among people and to remain one forever, no matter in what circumstances, not to grow despondent and not to lose heart - that’s what life is all about, that’s its task." Continued here

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3 reasons not to bring your authentic self to work There has been a lot of talk lately about bringing your authentic self to the workplace. This trend is rooted in good intentions. It requires energy when, for whatever reason, we have to be mindful about regulating some facet of our identity. Accordingly, easing this burden makes sense. And although the idea of allowing everyone to express themselves freely is grounded in good intention, often in the workplace, this practice can lead to unintended consequences. To be clear, this is exclusive of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts that are long overdue. DEI initiatives, when done well, create and help maintain work environments that are safe and inclusive for all. Here we’re talking about something a bit different. Continued here

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The 3 Elements of Trust As a leader, you want the people in your organization to trust you. And with good reason. In our coaching with leaders, we often see that trust is a leading indicator of whether others evaluate them positively or negatively. But how to create that trust, or perhaps more importantly, how reestablish it when you’ve lost it isn’t always that straightforward. By analyzing over 80,000 360-degree reviews, the authors found that there are three elements that predict whether a leader will be trusted by his direct reports, peers, and other colleagues. These are positive relationships, consistency, and good judgment/expertise. When a leader was above average on each of these elements, they were more likely to be trusted, and positive relationships appeared to be the most important element in that, without it, a leader’s trust rating fell most significantly. Trust is an important currency in organizations and any leader would be wise to invest time in building it by focusing on these three elements. Continued here

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Why Do We Undervalue Competent Management? Business schools teach MBA students that you can’t compete on the basis of management processes because they’re easily copied. Operational effectiveness is table stakes in the competitive universe, according to the strategists. But data from a decade-long research project involving 12,000 firms challenges that thinking. Continued here

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5 Ways Managers Sabotage the Hiring Process Nearly every hiring manager has a blind spot that, if left unidentified, can lead to devastating outcomes even within well-planned systems. Over time, the author has identified five common blind spots that corrode recruitment outcomes — and how to correct them. First, they assume they can fix issues they identify in a candidate during the recruitment process. Second, they signal a culture of micromanagement. Third, in attempting to telegraph empathy, they actually signal a lack of professional boundaries. Fourth, they overlook contrarian candidates. Finally, by trying to convey a culture of autonomy, they inadvertently suggest that they’re totally emotionally hands-off. Continued here

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The 12 Best Ways to Lose Weight After 50 You hear all these stories about how it's harder to lose weight after age 50 than it was earlier in life. While there are some biological factors that can make it harder to take off extra weight in your 50s and beyond, some of what's keeping the weight on is that your lifestyle has changed. Continued here

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5 habits of people who are especially productive working from home Before many office workers transitioned to remote arrangements, the thought of working from home sounded like a dream. Who doesn’t love the idea of ditching the commute and staying in your sweats? But those of us who have been working from home for years know the reality, and it isn’t always as stress-free as it sounds. Continued here

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Electric Planes Are Coming Sooner Than You Think You may be boarding an electric plane sooner than you think. The first rollouts for a major airline—with United—are due in 2026, and countries like Denmark and Sweden have announced plans to make all domestic flights fossil fuel–free by 2030. Continued here

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The surprising links between what you eat and how well you sleep Not getting enough sleep can lead to a vicious circle of over-eating and further sleep deprivation, but it may be possible to create a virtuous circle - where healthy eating actually improves your sleep. Continued here

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How Your Leadership Style Can Inform Your Parenting Being a working parent of a teenager doesn’t mean you no longer need to worry about balancing career and family; it just means you face new and different challenges. Raising teens is like leading other leaders in some ways — working with people who developmentally crave more autonomy and are seeking more empowerment and freedom. You can use your leader of leaders skills to communicate more effectively with your teen and help them develop the skills, judgment, and resilience they need to be fully independent. Continued here

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3 Steps to Creating a Profitable Business Idea According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 20% of startups are closed in the first year, and half of them within the first five years. CBInsights reports 35% of startups fail because of a lack of market demand, among others failure reasons — cash flow problems, getting outcompeted, a flawed business model and legal challenges.  Continued here

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How One McDonald’s Employee Busted a $24 Million Crime Ring to Save the Company McDonald's communications manager Amy Murray was sweating, and not just because of the weather. It was a muggy August morning in 2001, and she stood on the porch of Michael Hoover's nondescript townhome in Westerly, Rhode Island. The casino pit boss waiting inside was the latest winner of a promotional game that enticed customers to collect Monopoly "pieces" from the sides of the fast food chain's signature red boxes and in magazine inserts. Winners were promised "big time prizes!" like tropical vacations and free fries. Continued here

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The Future Is Uncertain. Here’s How to Ensure Your Team Can Adapt. As teams have scrambled to adapt to new conditions in the wake of the pandemic, many have devised exciting and highly productive new ways of relating to each other and getting their work done. The best teams transformed their ways of working through what we call “radical adaptability.” These are teams that went beyond mere coping with the crisis as an adaptive response. They used the crisis to reappraise and reinvent their work processes so that they could continue to adapt to unpredictable change in the years to come. This article discusses four essential ways to build radically adaptable teams in our new world of work: collaboration, agility, resilience, and foresight. The radically adaptive response entails fundamental changes to how the organization manages its workforce, develops new business models, and executes on its organizational purpose. Continued here

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Overcoming Self-Doubt in the Face of a Big Promotion When faced with a new career opportunity that requires new skills, we often question our competence. Job transitions come with untrodden ground. Our fear of failure makes us hesitate to embrace the opportunity. Continued here

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How to spend your first 90 days at a new job Detailed template and checklist for your first 30, 60, 90 days. Go from unknown outsider to trusted insider with confidence Continued here

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Scientists Watch a Memory Form in a Living Brain | Quanta Magazine While watching a fearful memory take shape in the brain of a living fish, neuroscientists see an unexpected level of rewiring occur in the synaptic connections. Continued here

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Ego Is the Enemy of Good Leadership The inflated ego that comes with success – the bigger salary, the nicer office, the easy laughs – often makes us feel as if we’ve found the eternal answer to being a leader. But the reality is, we haven’t. An inflated ego makes us susceptible to manipulation; it narrows our field of vision; and it corrupts our behavior, often causing us to act against our values. Breaking free of an overly-protective or inflated ego and avoiding the leadership bubble is an important and challenging job that requires selflessness, reflection, and courage. Continued here

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Radical Plan to Make Earth's Deepest Hole Could Unleash Limitless Energy Since its launch in 2020, a pioneering energy company called Quaise has attracted some serious attention for its audacious goal of diving further into Earth's crust than anybody has dug before. Continued here

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A Simple Way to Map Out Your Career Ambitions It’s easy to be confused about how to grow in your career. Even the most successful global companies are vague about the most effective development options. So it’s up to you to take charge of your own growth. Start by writing your “from/to” statements. These are two brief statements — one describing where you are today and one describing your next big (not your ultimate) destination. Then create a personal experience map. A personal experience map shows which experiences you want to acquire in the next two to five years. Growing yourself faster isn’t easy but it’s made far simpler when you’re clear about your origin, your destination, and the fastest, experience-driven route between the two. Continued here

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The realities of the four-day workweek When Koray Camgöz was granted a four-day workweek, the benefits seemed numerous. The new schedule forced the London-based PR officer to organise his time better. He was still able to meet deadlines and stay on top of to-do lists, while enjoying an extra day off each week. Most importantly, for the recent father, he was able to spend more time with his child.  Continued here

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‘I Don’t Know How to Say ‘No’ at Work’ I’ve become the go-to person everyone at work relies on for more and more job functions until I’m unable to keep up. I’m the type who goes to my own birthday party and ends up fixing one friend’s phone and cleaning part of a different friend’s house before I go home. I like to be busy and helpful, but there are limits. Continued here

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It’s Tough to Build a Corporate Culture in a Remote-Work World Rita Ramakrishnan started as head of people and talent at the real estate startup Cadre in April 2020. She had moved from San Francisco to New York for the job, where she planned to oversee the growing startup's workplace culture. Ramakrishnan had all kinds of plans, but she never made it to the office; instead, she spent her first months converting her new apartment into a home workspace. The experience reminded her of an old saying: Man plans, and God laughs. Continued here

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Why Customer Relationship Management Systems Will Become Obsolete Within 10 Years Most executives will tell you that customer relationship management (CRM) systems are essential technology. Many will tell you they are the key mechanism for gaining a deeper understanding of customers, building strong relationships with them, and making data-driven decisions that maximize customer satisfaction and lifetime value. Continued here

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What happened to Starbucks? How a progressive company lost its way

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Sleeping with even a small amount of light may harm your health, study says (CNN)Sleeping for only one night with a dim light, such as a TV set with the sound off, raised the blood sugar and heart rate of healthy young people participating in a sleep lab experiment, a new study found. Continued here

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The world's forests do more than just store carbon, new research finds The world's forests play a far greater and more complex role in tackling climate crisis than previously thought, due to their physical effects on global and local temperatures, according to new research. Continued here

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How Long Should It Take to Grieve? Psychiatry Has Come Up With an Answer. The decision marks an end to a long debate within the field of mental health, steering researchers and clinicians to view intense grief as a target for medical treatment, at a moment when many Americans are overwhelmed by loss. Continued here

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What We Keep Getting Wrong About Burnout My peers started talking about burnout when Anne Helen Petersen first wrote about what she called the “impossible” task. She described a situation where a small, non-urgent task that would normally feel easy feels insurmountable (in her case, getting a pair of boots resoled). Burnout, she argued, was the overall condition of millennials as a generation. She made this argument back in 2019, before the pandemic. Continued here

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The Costs of Oversharing With Your Boss I used to work at a large corporate office with a rigid top-down structure. My boss made it clear she wasn’t interested in how we spent our free time. There was no “How was your weekend?” or “Where did you go for the holidays?” We were there to work for her, period. Continued here

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How to Stop Overthinking and Start Trusting Your Gut Intuition is frequently dismissed as mystical or unreliable — but there’s a deep neurological basis for it. When you approach a decision intuitively, your brain works in tandem with your gut to quickly assess all your memories, past learnings, personal needs, and preferences and then makes the wisest decision given the context. The author offers strategies to learn how to leverage your intuition as a helpful decision-making tool in your career: 1) discern gut feeling from fear, 2) start by making minor decisions, 3) test drive your choices, 4) try the snap judgment test, and 5) fall back on your values. Continued here