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Tips for Effective Leadership in a Hybrid Work Model A successful hybrid work approach leads to productivity and happier employees. Continued here

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It's the Bass That Makes Us Boogie Well, a new study shows that it is, indeed, all about the bass. Because researchers have found that, during a concert, boosting the bass bumps up the boogying. The results appear in the journal Current Biology. Daniel Cameron: Music and musical rhythm have been kind of fascinating to me for a long time, since I was a kid. In particular, the way that they make us feel. Continued here

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How to Fix Collaboration Overload Employees are drowning in excessive or misaligned goals set by too many external stakeholders with competing needs and demands. This causes workers to lose sight of their highest priorities and the deliverables that they are accountable for, and results in them falling into collaborative overload as they engage in non-critical work. The burden of tackling collaboration overload often falls on employees to be more intentional about their approach to work, but the responsibility lies with organizations as well. This article covers four key ways that organizations can reduce collaboration overload for their people. Each of the four antidotes discussed involves managers becoming more informed about how collaboration is actually happening in their organizations. Continued here

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Two People Showed Up to Her Book Signing. Then, Margaret Atwood and Stephen King Commiserated In August, Chelsea Banning published her first book. Titled Of Crowns and Legends, the novel follows the lives of twins Anwil and Ariadne Pendragon, the fictional children of King Arthur. Last week, the Ohio librarian was “filled with excitement” ahead of her first book signing in Ashtabula, Ohio, she tells the Washington Post’s Adela Suliman and María Luisa Paúl. Thirty-seven people had even responded “going” on the event’s page. But when the day finally came, only two people showed up. Disappointed, Banning wrote about the event on Twitter. Continued here

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Our Favorite Smartwatches Do Much More Than Just Tell Time If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED A Great timepiece doesn’t just display the time of day; it can elevate your outfit and make you feel good. Smartwatches can do even more, from tracking your workouts and measuring your heart rate to serving up notifications and access to voice assistants. While you’re wearing a connected watch, you can leave your phone in your pocket and use your wrist for simple tasks.  Continued here

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How Your Company Can Benefit From Volunteering While volunteering is beneficial for the community, it can also deliver benefits to your employees and organization. Continued here

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Getting the Band Together: How to Build a World-Class Team Five ways to recruit and retain your own successful "band." Continued here

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Why do we make snap judgments based on facial appearance? | Psyche Ideas is professor of psychology at Birkbeck, University of London. He studies how we perceive and recognise other people. is professor of psychology at the University of York. She studies the development of prejudice and inter-group behaviour. Continued here

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PARKING SPACES FOR SUPER COMPUTER - Confidential Instructions for Tenga Tenier, Super Computer Office Manager ^ PON409 Confidential Instructions for Tenga Terier, Super Computer Office Manager for product #PON403.Two-party, two-issue scoreable negotiation between an office building owner and commercial tenant over the terms of a lease for parking spaces. Super Computer Corp. just signed its second three-year lease for office space at 100 Blue Chip Street. This office building, managed by Prime Properties, houses the regional offices of several global corporations. Tenga Tenier (Super Computer's office manager) and Rom Rosok (Prime Properties' property manager for 100 Blue Chip Street) are about to enter their annual negotiation over parking spaces. There is an executive parking lot underneath the office building, but this lot is not large enough to accommodate all of the building's tenants. Prime Properties offers a limited number of "executive" parking spaces in the underground lot, and a larger number of "satellite" parking spaces in a lot that is about ten minutes' walking distance from the building. Because Prime Properties charges the same lease price for executive and satellite parking spaces, tenants want to lease as few satellite and as many executive spaces as possible, while Prime Properties wants to lease as many satellite and as few executive spaces as possible. Tenga and Ron must negotiate an agreement on two issues: how many parking spaces will Super Computer lease, and how many of those spaces will be in the executive parking lot underneath the office building? Their scores will depend on the final agreement on each of these issues.This is a role play case. Continued here

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Compassion: The Key to a Thriving Culture and Business An empathic company attracts employees and results. Continued here

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7 Keys to Relationships That Can Propel Your Business and Career Don't be too busy to spend time finding and nurturing business relationships that can help you. Continued here

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Rob Parson at Morgan Stanley (C) ^ 498056 Teach this case online with new suggestions added to the Teaching Note.A year after Rob Parson's manager decided to postpone Parson's promotion, Parson's new manager Gary Stuart faces the decision of promotion again. Stuart considers whether the efforts Parson had made were sufficient. Teaching purpose: To explore managerial problems associated with performance appraisal and performance management. Continued here

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Decision-Making Exercise (A) ^ 397031 Provides questionnaires so students can compare their experiences with different decison-making processes. Students read "Growing Pains," a Harvard Business Review (HBR) case study, and then work in teams to come up with recommendations using a consensus approach to decison making. The next day using Decision-Making Exercise (B) and (C) and "Case of the Unhealthy Hospital," another HBR case study, and working in the same teams, use either a dialectical inquiry or devil's advocacy approach to decision making. Continued here

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U.S. Railroads and the Pitfalls of Systematic Understaffing The potential strike that the federal government just outlawed does not mean U.S. railroads’ labor problems are over. The root cause is their wrongheaded belief that minimizing staffing is good for their business. The authors’ research and work with service companies shows that firms that operate with some overstaffing and create an operating system that allows workers to do their best are more successful than those who focus on minimizing their labor costs. Continued here

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Is Consulting the Right Career for You? Young professionals often ask me about consulting as a career option: Is it for them and how can they decide? To answer this question fairly (and without the bias of having been in consulting myself), I reached out to someone who oversees the talent development of more than 100,000 employees working in consulting to get a well-rounded perspective. Wouter Van Linden is KPMG’s head of people for the EMEA (Europe, the Middle East and Africa) region. He studied law and his first job was in legal consulting. My conversation with him revolved around understanding what young professionals should know if they’re looking at a career in consulting. Continued here

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The Family Council: Organization and Function ^ IES455 The way a family council is organized and how it works depends on a series of factors: the council's degree of development, whether a family constitution exists, which generations are involved, whether the family council is in the initial stages, or whether, on the contrary, there is already a set schedule for meetings and an existing track record, the characteristics of the family and its specific scope (a council made up of parents and children is not the same as one between brothers, or among cousins, including uncles, etc.), whether the council members are also members of the Board of Directors, etc. The reasons for the existence of the family council and its functions may be dictated by the family constitution. The family constitution incorporates the principles and criteria used in the family governance system to deal with personal issues and family matters that should be managed by the family council. The specific aspects are different for each particular family. Continued here

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As the World Scrambles to Halt Biodiversity Loss, 'Things Are Getting Worse' More than one quarter of the more than 150,000 species on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species are threatened with extinction The outlook for Earth’s biodiversity is grim. Pollution, disease, habitat loss and climate change are among the myriad stressors now threatening tens of thousands of species across the planet. Of the more than 150,000 species evaluated by the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN’s) Red List of Threatened Species, “over a quarter are threatened with extinction,” says Craig Hilton-Taylor, who heads the IUCN Red List Unit. “The trend on the Red List is that things are getting worse.” Continued here

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Couples That Work: How Dual-Career Couples Can Thrive in Love and Work ^ 10258 Finding fulfillment in both love and work isn't easy--but it's possible. The majority of couples today are dual-career couples. As anyone who's part of such a relationship knows, this presents big challenges: trying to raise kids and achieve career goals while caring for and supporting your partner can seem impossible. Yet most advice for dual-career couples fails, framing the challenges as a zero-sum game in which one partner's gain is the other's loss and solutions feel like sacrifices or unsatisfactory trade-offs. This book is different. In "Couples That Work," INSEAD professor Jennifer Petriglieri rejects conventional, one-size-fits-all solutions and instead focuses on how dual-career couples can tackle and resolve the challenges they face throughout their lives--together. She identifies three key phases of exploration and personal growth in every couple's work-life journey, showing how partners must navigate these together to strengthen their bond. Each phase is crystallized with a question: How can we make this work?: The first phase focuses on the logistics of combining two busy lives and often involves the demands of young children; What do we really want?: In the second phase, couples learn to navigate their midlife crises in ways that allow each partner to continue to feel happy and fulfilled; Who are we now?: With careers winding down and kids grown up, this last phase offers new freedoms--and uncertainties. Based on a five-year research project, the book includes interviews with couples from over thirty countries--from executives to entrepreneurs and from twentysomething newlyweds to dual-career grandparents. Filled with vivid real-life stories, keen insights, and engaging exercises, "Couples That Work" will help couples develop their own unique answers to that most pressing question: How can we successfully combine love and work? Continued here S13 BMP POLICY MEETING - Confidential Instructions for B. Archer, Value Engineer ^ PON095 Confidential Instructions for B. Archer, Value Engineer for product #PON093. Five-party, four-issue internal negotiation among employees of a major engine manufacturer to agree on procurement guidelines in preparation for external negotiations with suppliers. Eagle Aircraft Engines, a manufacturer of engines for military and commercial aircraft, is preparing to negotiate a major five-year procurement for over 1000 parts from its suppliers. Its Airfoils and Casting Division (A&C) is responsible for purchasing roughly 100 of these parts. In preparation for the negotiations with suppliers, the five key personnel within A&C need to generate a "Business-Managed Procurement" policy in which A&C personnel must unanimously agree on four schedule and quality programs. The key personnel involved in the internal negotiation include three engineers, a buyer, and a financial analyst. They have all been sent a memo from the Purchasing Director outlining the overall procurement strategy. The Purchasing Director is putting pressure on them for consensus, emphasizing the importance of certain issues over others in preparation for his/her own negotiations with suppliers.This is a role play case. Continued here S31 The Best Public Speakers Put the Audience First Being an exceptional public speaker is about much more than making an attention-getting introduction, giving great eye contact, and knowing what to do with your hands. It’s about addressing what your listeners want and need to hear — not what you want to say. To do this, you need to first find out what’s in the heads and hearts of your audience, so you can design your presentation to address those topics first and foremost. Find out in advance what motivates your audience — what gets them out of bed in the morning, and what keeps them up at night. You’ll need to understand the depth of knowledge that your audience has on the topic, and how to meet them where they are. In this article, the author discusses best practices for earning your audience’s attention and buy-in in order to deliver an effective speech that’s worthy of their time. Continued here S4 Name Your Price: Compensation Negotiation at Whole Health Management (B) ^ 908065 Buy books, tools, case studies, and articles on leadership, strategy, innovation, and other business and management topics Continued here S5 Harvard Business Essentials: Coaching and Mentoring: How to Develop Top Talent and Achieve Stronger Performance ^ 435X Effective managers know that timely coaching can dramatically enhance their teams' performance. Coaching and Mentoring offers managers comprehensive advice on how to help employees grow professionally and achieve their goals. This volume covers the full spectrum of effective mentoring and the nuts and bolts of coaching. Managers learn how to master special mentoring challenges, improve listening skills, and provide ongoing support to their employees. The Harvard Business Essentials series is designed to provide comprehensive advice, personal coaching, background information, and guidance on the most relevant topics in business. Drawing on rich content from Harvard Business School Publishing and other sources, these concise guides are carefully crafted to provide a highly practical resource for readers with all levels of experience and are especially valuable for the new manager. To assure quality and accuracy, a specialized content adviser from a world-class business school closely reviews each volume. Whether you are a new manager seeking to expand your skills or a seasoned professional looking to broaden your knowledge base, these solution-oriented books put reliable answers at your fingertips. Continued here S52 The Evercade EXP Is Hoping For Vertical Take-Off If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED If there’s one thing gamers are used to, it’s generational churn. The NES gave way to the SNES, the PS4 to the PS5, and even dedicated PC players race to pick up improved graphics cards and beefier CPUs every few years.  Continued here S10 Corporate Responsibility & Community Engagement at the Tintaya Copper Mine (A) ^ 506023 Located in the highlands of Peru, the Tintaya copper mine has long been a source of intense conflict between local community members and mine operators. The mine, which was owned and managed first by the Peruvian state and later by BHP Billiton, stands on 2,300 hectares of land expropriated from local subsistence farmers. In 2000, to contest this loss of land, mining-related environmental degradation, and allegations of human rights abuses, a coalition of five indigenous communities forged an alliance with a group of domestic and international NGOs to build their case against the BHP Billiton and pursue it directly with the company's Australian headquarters. The outcome of these efforts was the inception of a unique corporate-community negotiation process known as the Tintaya Dialogue Table. In December 2004, after three years of negotiation, BHP Billiton and the five communities signed an agreement compensating families for lost land and livelihoods and establishing a local environmental monitoring team and community development fund. However, just as the company resolves one conflict, another group of local stakeholders emerges with new demands--ones that the company may not be able to meet. The conflict with this new group culminates in a violent takeover of the mine in May 2005, whereupon BHP Billiton staff are forced to shut down operations, abandon the mine site, and devise a new strategy for winning back local support. Continued here S15 The Federal Reserve and Goldman Sachs: Carmen Segarra ^ UV7130 Carmen Segarra, a recently hired bank examiner in the NY Fed's supervisory office for Goldman Sachs, strongly disagrees with her supervisor, Mike Silva, about whether Goldman Sachs has a viable overall conflict-of-interest policy. Silva says "yes," and Segarra says "no." This issue is the latest in which Segarra sees what she considers regulatory capture in the NY Fed/Goldman Sachs's relationship. An independent report had been critical of the NY Fed for being too cozy with the banking institutions it regulated and suggested hiring more aggressive and vocal examiners. Segarra realizes that her aggressive and frank communication style has irritated both Silva and others in their department but is determined to do her job. The tension between Silva and Segarra has reached a breaking point and Segarra must decide what actions she must take to address both the tension and what she considers regulatory capture. A teaching note accompanies this case and details how it is taught in Darden's ethics and leading organizations courses. Continued here S50 ChatGPT’s Fluent BS Is Compelling Because Everything Is Fluent BS Out in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico, a young woman named Rachel clings to the side of an oil rig. The wind whips her auburn hair into a wild tangle, and ocean spray drenches her jeans, but she climbs on, determined to uncover evidence of illegal drilling. When she arrives on board, however, she finds something far more sinister at play. This is a snippet of Oil and Darkness, a horror movie set on an oil rig. It features environmental activist Rachel, guilt-ridden rig foreman Jack, and shady corporate executive Ryan, who has been conducting dangerous research on a "new type of highly flammable oil." It's the kind of movie you could swear you caught the second half of once while late-night channel-hopping or dozed blearily through on a long-haul flight. It's also entirely made up.  Continued here S55 Why Hawaii’s volcanoes are different than most Hawaii’s Mauna Loa, the world’s largest active volcano, began sending up fountains of glowing rock and spilling lava from fissures as its first eruption in nearly four decades began on Nov. 27, 2022. We asked Gabi Laske, a geophysicist at the University of California-San Diego who led one of the first projects to map the deep plumbing that feeds the Hawaiian Islands’ volcanoes, to explain. Continued here S49 ChatGPT, Galactica, and the Progress Trap the release of large language models like ChatGPT (a question-answering chatbot) and Galactica (a tool for scientific writing) has revived an old conversation about what these models can do. Their capabilities have been presented as extraordinary, mind-blowing, autonomous; fascinated evangelists have claimed that these models contain “humanity’s scientific knowledge,” are approaching artificial general intelligence (AGI), and even resemble consciousness. However, such hype is not much more than a distraction from the actual harm perpetuated by these systems. People get hurt from the very practical ways such models fall short in deployment, and these failures are the result of their builders’ choices—decisions we must hold them accountable for.  Among the most celebrated AI deployments is that of BERT—one of the first large language models developed by Google—to improve the company’s search engine results. However, when a user searched how to handle a seizure, they received answers promoting things they should not do—including being told inappropriately to “hold the person down” and “put something in the person’s mouth.” Anyone following the directives Google provided would thus be instructed to do exactly the opposite of what a medical professional would recommend, potentially resulting in death.  Continued here S43 How great leaders take on uncertainty In a constantly changing world, it's impossible for leaders to provide employees with the assurance they want, says Vimeo CEO Anjali Sud. Her solution: lead with humanity and flexibility. In conversation with veteran journalist Stephanie Mehta, Sud discusses her experience connecting remote employees worldwide, addressing burnout and adapting company practices for the needs of the next generation. Hear her vision for the future of work and ideas on how to be a leader that empowers others. Continued here S9 Generation to Generation: Life Cycles of the Family Business ^ 555X Presents one of the first comprehensive overviews of family business as a specific organizational form. Focusing on the inevitable maturing of families and their firms over time, the authors reveal the dynamics and challenges family businesses face as they move through their life cycles. The book asks questions, such as: What is the difference between an entrepreneurial start-up and a family business, and how does one become the other? How does the meaning of the business to the family change as adults and children age? Ho do families move through generational changes in leadership, from anticipation to transfer, and then separation and retirement? This book is divided into three sections that present a multidimensional model of a family business. The authors use the model to explore the various stages in the family business life span and extract generalizable lessons about how family businesses should be organized. Continued here S18 Stop Criticizing Women and Start Questioning Men Instead Anyone who’s genuinely interested not just in helping women succeed, but also in helping society prosper and evolve — driving social and economic progress for everyone — should stop applying sexist criticisms to women, and start applying useful criticisms to change the behavior of arrogant and overconfident men, since it is men who have long led the system and the status quo. Here are seven questions the authors believe more men in the workforce should consider, inspired by seven sexist criticism that are often targeted at women. Continued here S16 What's Your Problem?: To Solve Your Toughest Problems, Change the Problems You Solve ^ 10257 Are you solving the right problems? Have you or your colleagues ever worked hard on something, only to find out you were focusing on the wrong problem entirely? Most people have. In a survey, 85 percent of companies said they often struggle to solve the right problems. The consequences are severe: Leaders fight the wrong strategic battles. Teams spend their energy on low-impact work. Startups build products that nobody wants. Organizations implement "solutions" that somehow make things worse, not better. Everywhere you look, the waste is staggering. As Peter Drucker pointed out, there's nothing more dangerous than the right answer to the wrong question. There is a way to do better. The key is reframing, a crucial, underutilized skill that you can master with the help of this book. Using real-world stories and unforgettable examples like "the slow elevator problem," author Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg offers a simple, three-step method--Frame, Reframe, Move Forward--that anyone can use to start solving the right problems. Reframing is not difficult to learn. It can be used on everyday challenges and on the biggest, trickiest problems you face. In this visually engaging, deeply researched book, you'll learn from leaders at large companies, from entrepreneurs, consultants, nonprofit leaders, and many other breakthrough thinkers. It's time for everyone to stop barking up the wrong trees. Teach yourself and your team to reframe, and growth and success will follow. Continued here S68 Amid pathetic uptake, FDA green lights confusing COVID vaccine update for kids The Food and Drug Administration has greenlit updated COVID-19 vaccine doses for children under the age of 5, but the change to the authorized vaccination regimens is far from straightforward. This may further hamstring efforts to vaccinate the youngest Americans, which are already off to an abysmal start. Continued here S2 Carvajal, S.A.: Building on a Century of Business Growth and Family Values ^ KEL872 This case presents the history and recent governance challenges of Carvajal, S.A., a Colombia-based, family-owned, billion-dollar-plus holding company that had offered printing-related (e.g., Yellow Pages, notebooks) and other products and services across and beyond South America for more than a century. Specifically, the case details the company's state of affairs in early 2011, a time by which Carvajal's flagship businesses had matured rapidly with the emergence of digital technology and diminished demand for paper/print-based products. Though profits and growth remained positive, Carvajal's leaders knew that upholding the business's legacy of returns, dividends for all family members, and extensive philanthropy would take significant strategy and execution. Compounding the strategy issues, Carvajal faced these market challenges with new leadership: the first non-family CEO since the company's inception. Well-established Colombian executive Ricardo Obregon had been hired in 2008 over two family candidates to lead the business. Obregon was to oversee a complex governance network that included a holding company with seven operating companies, their management and respective boards, a family council, and 280 members (including spouses) of a shareholding family in its sixth generation. Carvajal's business and family leaders had to face market issues and decisions that included the possibility of taking public the operating companies and/or the holding company while maintaining the business's long traditions of unity, respect, strong ethics, and philanthropy. That meant optimizing several crucial relationships: between the family and the new CEO; between the family and the board; between the operating companies and the holding company; and between members of the large Carvajal family, many of whom now resided outside of Colombia and Latin America. Continued here S26 How to Send a Last-Minute Holiday Email Didn't get a chance to plan your holiday email marketing? Sending a last-minute email is a great idea--here's how to do it right. Continued here S46 Wearing Fossil’s Gen 6 Wellness Feels More Like a Sickness If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more. Please also consider subscribing to WIRED A smartwatch is an accessory you don’t really need, but it can be convenient. Without having to pull out your smartphone, you can see and respond to notifications, change music tracks, and glance at the next turn when you’re hurriedly stomping to the nearest coffee shop to warm yourself up in the winter chill. If it becomes annoying to use, then you may as well have just thrown money in the bin. Continued here S6 And Now The Hard Part: Role-Plays ^ UV1076 "The diversity lady has a label on her forehead and talks about the standard message," one senior executive at a large corporation said. "It's the same message we got 20 years ago. We do it annually but employees never get any of that. I've never had a diversity talk to my staff." Traditional diversity initiatives generally focus on specific dimensions of difference such as gender, race, sexual orientation, able-bodiedness, or religion. This material involves role-plays among a diverse group of players that encourage inclusion of a broader scope of social-identity differences such as diversity of problem-solving styles and emotional intelligence differences. Continued here S19 What Does It Really Take to Build a New Habit? Our habits govern our lives, literally. Research shows that around half of our daily actions are driven by repetition. This is probably why behavioral scientists and psychologists have spent so much time writing about how to establish and keep positive habits. Regular sleep and exercise, a healthy diet, an organized schedule, and mindfulness are just a few examples of practices that — if done regularly — can improve our work, relationships, and mental health. Continued here S65 Thanks to AI, it’s probably time to take your photos off the Internet If you're one of the billions of people who have posted pictures of themselves on social media over the past decade, it may be time to rethink that behavior. New AI image-generation technology allows anyone to save a handful of photos (or video frames) of you, then train AI to create realistic fake photos that show you doing embarrassing or illegal things. Not everyone may be at risk, but everyone should know about it. Continued here S47 'Cocaine Bear' and the New Age of Internet Movies The Monitor is a weekly column devoted to everything happening in the WIRED world of culture, from movies to memes, TV to Twitter. For a fleeting moment last week, everyone was talking about bears on cocaine. Well, one bear on cocaine. In a movie. Never mind. The point is, for like eight hours on a random Wednesday, as Twitter spun out of control and the US waited to see if rail workers would go on strike, a bunch of netizens got distracted by an extremely high ursine apex predator on a killing spree.   Continued here S44 Josephine Eyre: Are video calls the best we can do in the age of the metaverse? Remote work, while redefining the workplace landscape, seems stuck behind endless video conference calls that hinder free-flowing conversation and collaboration. In the 21st century, is that really the best we can do? Digital anthropologist Josephine Eyre makes the case for embracing the metaverse as an immersive meeting place that could help reignite creativity and communication. Continued here S67 Musk brings back Twitter Blue with new features to prevent impersonation Today is apparently the day when Twitter Blue is coming back. Reuters reported that subscriptions would be available sometime Friday for purchase in the Apple App Store for $11 and on the web for $7. Continued here S14 Harvard Business Review Leader's Handbook: Make an Impact, Inspire Your Organization, and Get to the Next Level ^ 10158 The one primer you need to develop your leadership skills. Put aside all the overhyped new frameworks, the listicles, the "10 best things you need to succeed as a leader today." The critical leadership practices--the ones that will allow a leader to make the biggest impact over time--are well established. They're about how you create a vision and inspire others to follow it. How you make difficult strategic choices. How you lead innovation. How you get results. These fundamental skills are even more important today as organizations and teams become increasingly networked, virtual, agile, fast-moving, and socially conscious. In this comprehensive handbook, strategy and change experts Ron Ashkenas and Brook Manville distill proven ideas and frameworks about leadership from Harvard Business Review, interviews with senior executives, and their own experience in the field--all to help rising leaders stand out and have a big impact. In the "HBR Leader's Handbook" you'll find: Concise explanations of proven leadership frameworks from Harvard Business Review contributors such as Clayton M. Christensen and Michael E. Porter; In-depth case studies of senior leaders such as Jim Wolfensohn at the World Bank, Paula Kerger at PBS, Darren Walker at the Ford Foundation, and Jim Smith at Thomson Reuters; Step-by-step guidance to help you understand and start implementing six core leadership practices: building a unifying vision, developing a strategy, getting great people on board, focusing on results, innovating for the future, and leading yourself.HBR Handbooks provide ambitious professionals with the frameworks, advice, and tools they need to excel in their careers. With step-by-step guidance, time-honed best practices, real-life stories, and concise explanations of research published in Harvard Business Review, each comprehensive volume helps you to stand out from the pack--whatever your role. Continued here S7 Major Steckleson at the National Training Center (A) ^ 404089 Major Steckleson is facing his toughest challenge yet. As an experienced observer-controller at the U.S. Army's National Training Center, Steckleson is responsible for helping leaders of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Squadron learn from a deadly mistake in simulated combat by facilitating the unit's After Action Review (AAR). AARs are structured conversations about recent experience designed to help units learn from both mistakes and successes. Continued here S54 It could be worse: 5 countries have triple-digit inflation The UK currently has a National Living Wage that works out to around £20,000 ($24,500) per year. Yet Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth Bennett’s love interest in Pride and Prejudice, is considered fabulously wealthy with an annual income of just half that amount. “Dear me! Mr. Darcy! Who would have thought it!” swoons Elizabeth’s mother in chapter 59, when she finds out about her daughter’s romance. “Oh! My sweetest Lizzy! How rich and how great you will be! What pin-money, what jewels, what carriages you will have!… A house in town! Everything that is charming!… Ten thousand a year, and very likely more! ‘Tis as good as a Lord!” Continued here S57 Academic arrogance: The school that grants your PhD thinks it's too good to hire you Do you want to be a professor? Countless PhD students harbor this dream. However, a firsthand look at the nature of academic hiring is enough to change the minds of many. A new research paper published in Nature, which explicitly analyzes faculty hiring, certainly won’t help matters: The picture it paints of the academic hiring market is not pretty. Large universities maintain departments in most academic fields, and the competition for prestige and ranking between departments is ferocious. The paper examines 387 U.S. universities, containing more than 10,000 departments, with nearly 300,000 faculty coming and going over the ten years under study. (Here the term faculty represents a person who is tenured, or in a tenure track position, which gives them a shot at tenure. This excludes part-time instructors and other adjunct positions with no chance of obtaining tenure.) Continued here S33 Beyond cola: The strange flavours of soft drinks Once upon a time, there were more sweet sodas than you could shake a stick at. Some were flavoured with cherry syrup, some with lemons, some with the cola nut or bits of sassafras bark. The glass bottles that kept those fizzing elixirs bubbly circulated again and again through a town or community. They made their way back to the local bottling plant, where the mastermind behind the recipe, or someone who'd bought it from them, filled them back up with fizzy drink. For reasons of pragmatism, these sodas were regional delicacies, generally speaking. They'd spread as far as the bottles could go, and no farther. Continued here S32 Is IT Complexity Standing in the Way of Your Organization's Growth? - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM BROADCOM But as organizations increasingly migrate infrastructure to multi-cloud environments and incorporate such emerging technologies as edge computing and internet of things (IoT), the complexity of information technology (IT) is impeding success, according to 82% of respondents to a recent survey of large enterprises around the world. Continued here S17 Navigating Work Benefits: Our Favorite Reads I wanted a higher salary, flexibility in work hours and location, great health insurance at a lower cost, a retirement plan supported by the company, and a good time-off policy. Of course, there were other benefits I cared about, but by identifying and prioritizing the ones that mattered most to me, I was able to find a job that matched my career goals and my values. Because of that, I’ve felt fulfilled and supported during my time here. Continued here S64 A Schoolhouse Rock! tribute to honor the passing of its last surviving creator Ars readers of a certain age grew up in the 1970s and 1980s watching Saturday morning cartoons and singing along to Schoolhouse Rock!, a series of whimsical animated shorts setting the multiplication tables, grammar, American history, and science to music. We were saddened to learn that George Newall, the last surviving member of the original team that produced this hugely influential series, has died at 88. The cause of death was cardiopulmonary arrest, according to The New York Times. The series turns 50 (!) next year. Continued here S22 Why Amazon Web Services Is Making the Leap Into Supply Chain Management AWS is betting that business owners' supply chain woes are here to stay--for now. Continued here S23 The Future of Work Is Here--Leaders Need to Catch Up Work looks different these days. Here's how to not fall behind. Continued here S51 Elon Musk's Twitter Is Making Meta Look Smart It was the first day of April 2022, and I was sitting in a law firm’s midtown Manhattan conference room at a meeting of Meta’s Oversight Board, the independent body the scrutinizes its content decisions. And for a few minutes, it seemed that despair had set in. The topic at hand was Meta’s controversial Cross Check program, which gave special treatment to posts from certain powerful users—celebrities, journalists, government officials, and the like. For years this program operated in secret, and Meta even misled the board on its scope. When details of the program were leaked to The Wall Street Journal, it became clear that millions of people received that special treatment, meaning their posts were less likely to be taken down when reported by algorithms or other users for breaking rules against things like hate speech. The idea was to avoid mistakes in cases where errors would have more impact—or embarrass Meta—because of the prominence of the speaker. Internal documents showed that Meta researchers had qualms about the project’s propriety. Only after that exposure did Meta ask the board to take a look at the program and recommend what the company should do with it. Continued here S34 Why we should value scavengers Scavengers are vilified and often feared. Around the world, creatures including vultures, hyenas and beetles that feed on animals that are already dead are considered unpleasant, dirty and dangerous. In his novel The Green Hills of Africa, Ernest Hemingway described the hyena as a "devourer of the dead, trailer of calving cows, ham-stringer, potential biter-off of your face at night while you slept, sad yowler…". And since ancient times, vultures have been viewed as harbingers of death and symbols of bad luck. Continued here S66 RIP Passwords? Passkey support rolls out to Chrome stable Passkeys are here to (try to) kill the password. Following Google's beta rollout of the feature in October, passkeys are now hitting Chrome stable M108. "Passkey" is built on industry standards and backed by all the big platform vendors—Google, Apple, Microsoft—along with the FIDO Alliance. Google's latest blog says: "With the latest version of Chrome, we're enabling passkeys on Windows 11, macOS, and Android." The Google Password Manager on Android is ready to sync all your passkeys to the cloud, and if you can meet all the hardware requirements and find a supporting service, you can now sign-in to something with a passkey. Continued here S36 'Our vision is a Friendship Bench within walking distance--everywhere' Zimbabwe-based psychiatrist Dixon Chibanda shares insights on mental health, the evolution of his community-based Friendship Bench initiative, and why grandmothers make great talk therapists. It all started with the suicide of a patient whose family could not afford bus fare to the hospital. Continued here S63 Linux-ready Launch Heavy is a $300 mechanical keyboard for number crunchers Prebuilt mechanical keyboards often neglect Linux support. Users frequently report success in getting a mechanical keyboard's basic functions to work, but many of these peripherals don't accommodate software for controlling advanced features, like macros, with Linux. Since last year, System76's Launch keyboard has been trying to address that problem. But number crunchers will be much more interested in the new Launch Heavy. Continued here S39 Subliminal Cues, Precisely Timed, Might Help People Forget Bad Experiences Suppressing memories using an “amnesic shadow” could someday lead to a gentler therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder Recurrent intrusive memories lie at the heart of certain mental illnesses, including post-traumatic stress disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Clinicians often treat these conditions with “exposure therapy.” They gradually and gently re-expose patients to feared stimuli or simulations—from reminders of active combat to germs on a toilet—teaching the brain to become accustomed to the stimuli and to decouple them from danger. Continued here S35 The McKinsey Podcast on Business & Management Looking for a business podcast? The McKinsey Podcast series provides viewpoints from the firm's leading experts on the business topics of today. Continued here S56 Green light therapy might help treat chronic pain A new study reveals the cellular mechanism by which green light relieves pain in mice. The findings suggest that light therapy could be a cheap and effective way of managing chronic pain, a major global health problem. In the past decade, phototherapy — exposure to light of specific wavelengths and intensities — has been used to manage pain in patients with various conditions, including non-specific lower back pain, migraine, and fibromyalgia.  Continued here S45 How the UN’s ‘Sex Agency’ Uses Tech to Save Mothers’ Lives Toward the end of 2020, on a work trip to Chocó, Colombia, Jaime Aguirre came across a girl—perhaps 11 or 12 years old—holding a newborn.  "Is this your baby?" Aguirre asked. Yes, she said. He was shocked. "Can I ask you—sorry—why did you get pregnant so young?" Continued here S53 Ask Ethan: Will the Universe run out of hydrogen? Nothing in this Universe lasts forever, no matter how large, massive, or enduring it appears to be. Every star that’s ever born will someday run out of fuel in its core and die. Every galaxy that’s actively forming stars will someday run out of star-forming material and cease doing so. And every light that shines will someday cool off and go dark. If we wait long enough, there will be nothing to see, observe, or even extract energy from; when it reaches a state of maximal entropy, the cosmos will achieve a “heat death,” the inevitable final-stage in our cosmic evolution. But what, exactly, does that mean for the simplest atom of all: hydrogen, the most common element in the Universe since the start of the Big Bang? That’s what Bill Thomson wants to know, writing in to ask: Continued here S37 Talent in a changing market: What now? High turnover, shrinking pipelines, inflation—the talent market remains in flux. Here’s what you should be doing differently. In this episode of McKinsey Talks Talent, talent experts Bonnie Dowling, Bryan Hancock, and Bill Schaninger talk with McKinsey Global Publishing’s Lucia Rahilly about the latest research on the Great Attrition and Great Attraction—and specifically, what leaders should be doing now to gain traction in a volatile talent landscape. Continued here S40 $3.5-Million Hemophilia Gene Therapy Is World's Most Expensive Drug A hemophilia drug has the potential to save lives. But it cannot treat the most common form of the disease On 22 November, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first gene therapy for the genetic blood-clotting disorder haemophilia B—a one-time treatment that costs US$3.5 million. Continued here S60 Ohio measles outbreak hits partially vaccinated kids, babies too young for shots The measles outbreak in Ohio continues to swell, striking a total of 63 children to date. The tally now includes at least three children who were partially vaccinated against the highly contagious virus and 14 who are typically too young to be vaccinated. Continued here S62 Trashed lithium-ion batteries caused three garbage truck fires in California A firm that handles returned Amazon electronics has agreed to pay a $25,000 fine after lithium-ion batteries it threw away caused at least three different garbage truck fires. Continued here S58 Parents: Don't make your child the enemy. Build your relationship instead Whether we’d like to admit it or not, so much of parenting can come from a place of uncertainty. Uncertainty over whether that bad behavior arises from a deep-seated character flaw. Uncertainty over whether our mistakes will forever tarnish their chances at happiness and wholeness. Uncertainty over whether we have the ability to give our children what they need to grow into the person they want to be. In her book, Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be, Dr. Becky Kennedy contends these uncertainties, while understandable, have the unfortunate tendency to evolve into unhelpful fear and self-blame. Parents needn’t approach parenting like a middle manager trying to train children for a specific life role. Instead, the heart of parenting should be the relationship they build with their children, both now and throughout their lives. Continued here S59 Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 review: Second only to the 4090—for now Very little about Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4080 is surprising—especially now that the confusing, scrapped 12GB version is being renamed. In pretty much all of our performance tests, it slots in right where you'd expect it to, comfortably ahead of the RTX 3080 Ti but trailing the $1,500 RTX 4090 by enough to justify the $300 price gap. It's usually capable of hitting or exceeding 60 fps at 4K, and games with DLSS support (or some other kind of upscaling tech) can buy you a solid frame rate increase. And its power requirements aren't as stratospheric as the 4090's, either, so most people with an existing xx70 or xx80-class gaming PC shouldn't need to switch out their power supply. Continued here S61 Disgraced FTX founder to testify at House hearing on crypto exchange crash It has been a little more than a week since disgraced FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried was interviewed at a New York Times conference, telling attendees, “I didn't ever try to commit fraud on anyone.” Shortly after that interview, US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Chairman Sherrod Brown sent a letter to Bankman-Fried, requesting that he appear next week at a Senate committee hearing entitled “Crypto Crash: Why the FTX Bubble Burst and the Harm to Consumers.” Continued here S38 Risk and resilience priorities, as told by chief risk officers Amid the storm of crises and disruptions, leading financial institutions are recognizing risk’s strategic and resilience-building role. At this moment, economies and societies are enduring several crises simultaneously. All have major humanitarian impact and potentially long-lasting second- and third-order effects. The era is defined by the interplay of complex disruptions with disparate origins and long-term consequences. Climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic, record inflation and monetary tightening, supply disruptions, and increased geopolitical risk—all pose urgent questions of organizational resilience that cannot be addressed in isolation. Continued here About Me Prem Kumar View my complete profile Powered by Blogger.