How to Write a Meaningful Thank You Note

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How to Write a Meaningful Thank You Note     We all want to be appreciated. Whether you’ve accepted a task while your plate is already full, worked through weekends to get a project off the ground, or simply been there for a work friend when they needed your support, an acknowledgement or “thank you” can go a long way in making us feel good about the efforts we put in — and the research supports this. Continued here

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What Great Listeners Actually Do     What makes a good listener? Most people think is comes down to three components: not interrupting the speaker, following along with facial expressions, and being able to repeat back almost verbatim what the speaker has just said. According to research from Zenger and Folkman, however, we’re doing it all wrong. Instead of thinking of a good listener as a sponge —absorbing everything but providing little feedback — a skilled listener should be thought of as a trampoline who amplifies and supports a speaker’s thoughts by providing constructive feedback. Engaging in a two-way conversation is essential, according to data, and Zenger and Folkman define six levels of listening, all meant to help listeners develop this skill. Continued here

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How Formula 1's New Las Vegas Grand Prix Provides Important Lessons for Every Aspiring Entrepreneur      And about how it's definitely possible (even preferable) to start your own business while keeping your full-time job. Continued here

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Lessons from Tesla's Approach to Innovation     Tesla has shifted the auto industry toward electric vehicles, achieved consistently growing revenues, and at the start of 2020 was the highest-performing automaker in terms of total return, sales growth, and long-term shareholder value. As a technology and innovation scholar, the author has studied how innovators commercialize new technologies and found that Tesla’s strategy offers enduring lessons for any innovator, especially in terms of how to win support for an idea and how to bring new technologies to market. To understand Tesla’s strategy, one must separate its two primary pillars: headline-grabbing moves like launching the Cybertruck or the Roadster 2.0 and the big bets it is making on its core vehicles, the models S, X, 3, and Y. Continued here

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Trick Yourself into Breaking a Bad Habit     As we reviewed what separated the successful few from the rest, we found a quirky distinction: The successful people talked about themselves the way an experimental psychologist might refer to a cherished lab rat. For example, a shy manager with executive aspirations talked about how he took himself to the employee cafeteria three times a week to eat lunch with a complete stranger. Tickling with anxiety, he stripped himself of his smart phone before exiting his office — knowing that if it was with him, he would retreat to it. He knew that if he simply ensconced himself in these circumstances, he would connect with new people — a habit and skill he wanted to cultivate. Continued here

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Should I Hire a Qualified Candidate Who Comes With Baggage?     She's the most qualified person on paper. Continued here

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How to Fight a Price War     Price wars—retaliatory cuts in prices to win customers—can devastate managers, companies, even entire industries. Yet they’re increasingly common in electronic and traditional commerce. Witness the great price battle of 1999 in the long-distance phone industry: after the dust cleared, AT&T, MCI, and Sprint all saw their stock prices dip by as much as 5%. Continued here

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5 Ways to Own Your Happiness and Thrive at Work     Empower yourself to make your job satisfaction part of your job. Continued here

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The quest for the era of personalised medicine     In early 2017, a neurologist at Boston Children's Hospital called Timothy Yu began work on the most ambitious project of his life: to design and synthesise an experimental drug for a dying child, within a timeframe of just a few months.Weeks earlier, Yu had been forwarded a desperate plea made on Facebook from a woman called Julia Vitarello. Her daughter Mila, then just five years old, had been diagnosed with Batten disease: a rare but devastating neurodegenerative disorder combining symptoms of Parkinson's disease, dementia, and epilepsy. Worse, Mila's form of Batten disease was driven by a unique gene mutation, meaning no existing experimental therapies would work. Continued here

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3 Strategies to Boost Sales and Marketing Productivity     A study of B2B companies found that just one in 20 was able to consistently grow sales faster than sales and marketing expenses. As companies seek to cut costs in an uncertain economy, increasing this commercial productivity is a smart strategy. Research shows the three ways companies can do this are to refine the go-to-market model, turn every rep into an A player, and make sales and marketing support more efficient. Continued here

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What to Do When Your Raise Isn't Enough     If you receive a raise that seems suspiciously low, or if you’re really not sure whether you’re being compensated fairly, the best thing you can do is research. Every job has a “market value,” or an estimation of how much money you should be earning based on your job title, years of experience, and the cost of living in your area. Many companies use this information to set salaries. If you’re making way below the estimation, it’s worth calling out. Continued here

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How Brands Can Sell to Environmentally Conscious Nonconsumers     New research into how consumer attitudes about climate change affect their behavior and purchasing habits find that the largest segment is “Conscious Non-consumers” — that is, people who have changed their behavior to help the environment, but are not purchasing environmentally friendly products. For companies selling these products, reaching this segment of consumers can be a source of profits and impact. The research finds specific barriers that prevent this group from making sustainable purchases — and corresponding strategies to help overcome those barriers. Continued here

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Lose money online working from home: Job scams spike in India     On April 16, Anuj, a manual tester at a life insurance company in New Delhi, received a WhatsApp message from an international number. The sender identified herself as “Shyla Sarika from Nielsen Media India Pvt. Ltd.” She claimed the company worked with celebrities to boost their social media presence.Sarika offered Anuj — whose name has been changed to protect his identity — a part-time job with daily pay ranging from $2 to $36. He told Rest of World the tasks involved following celebrity accounts on Instagram and sharing screenshots as evidence on a Telegram group. Excited about the opportunity to earn extra money and repay some of his loans, the 28-year-old accepted the offer.  Continued here

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FTC Chair Lina Khan Says It's a Myth That A.I. Isn't Regulated     New rules may be in order, but existing consumer protection laws still apply when companies turn to artificial intelligence. Continued here

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Meet the Founder: Curl Mix's Kim Lewis     Curl Mix co-founder and CEO Kim Lewis talks grit, remaining confident in the face of others' doubts, and her admiration for other Black women founders. Continued here

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Sign Up Now: Meet Luminary's Cate Luzio in This Exclusive Inc. Livestream Event Wednesday June 7 at 12 p.m. ET     This former banker put her financial acumen to work when she bootstrapped her networking business. Get both practical tips and inspiration from her journey as an entrepreneur. Continued here

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Why the Best Teams--Why Your Team--Needs a Nikola     To some, the NBA superstar may not look the part, but his statistics--and his team's success--prove otherwise. Continued here

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How Dreams Reveal Brain Disorders     Examining dream content can assist in the diagnosis of psychiatric and neurological illnesses. What does fighting off a lion mean?For 30 years Isabelle Arnulf, head of the sleep disorders clinic at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, has studied sleep and its associated disorders. During her career, Arnulf, who is also a professor of neurology at Sorbonne University in France, has researched a broad range of sleep conditions: sleepwalking, rapid eye movement (REM) sleep behavior disorder, lucid dreaming, sleep in Parkinson’s disease and hypersomnia, or excessive daytime sleepiness. As part of these studies, Arnulf investigated how these disorders affect dream states. In an interview with Scientific American’s French-language sister publication Pour la Science, the neurologist talks about whether depression or trauma affects dreaming and whether one should worry about recurring nightmares. Continued here

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This Thunderous Goose Relative Was Built Like a Tank With the Wings of a Songbird     Officially, these prehistoric birds are the dromornithids, but everyone who studies them calls them thunderbirds--and for good reason.Anusuya Chinsamy-Turan: So, yeah, so very unlike a bird that you typically think of sitting at a bird feeder—you know, definitely not that kind of bird. Continued here

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Mike Pence Files Paperwork for 2024 Presidential Race, Taking on Former Boss Donald Trump     The former vice president is expected to officially announce his candidacy this week. Continued here

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3 Warnings That Can Be Found in a Candidate's Social Media     Red flags you should be looking for during the hiring process. Continued here

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How to Manage: Being Taken Seriously     Becoming a boss is a step up and should feel like one, but for so many women it doesn’t, at least initially. Too often, the people we’re newly responsible for ignore our direction and question our judgment. We end up deflated and puzzled. Why won’t anyone follow my lead? Am I not cut out for this? Did my boss make a mistake in promoting me? Continued here

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Venezuelan migrants helped build Colombia's tech scene. Now the country is kicking them out     Aníbal Rojas thought his yearly visa renewal in Colombia was going to be as swift as usual. He had done it three times before and never had any issues. As the vice president of engineering at Platzi, a prominent edtech startup based in Bogotá, he had easily fulfilled the Colombian government’s main requirement to live and work in the country: a stable job. This time, though, Rojas faced far more probing questions in what had previously been a routine visa application form, he told Rest of World. “Isn’t there a Colombian who could do the job?” Rojas said he was asked. “And, where is your engineering degree?”Rojas had been too busy making a living in Venezuela, and then escaping his country’s turmoil in 2019 to get a formal degree in computer engineering. But he said he’d never been asked to provide proof of a degree before — neither in Colombia nor Venezuela — until that day. “I’ve worked in software development for 30 years in Venezuela, and later for big transnational companies, and developing for startups around the world,” Rojas said. “No one ever asked me for a degree.”  Continued here

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Why Nuclear Fusion Won't Solve the Climate Crisis     In December 2022 scientists at the U.S. National Ignition Facility (NIF) announced a breakthrough in the decades-long effort to create an energy source based on the same nuclear fusion reactions that power the sun. An “engineering marvel beyond belief,” they proclaimed, as major newspapers quickly followed with breathless coverage. The Washington Post called it “truly something to celebrate.” Other commentators gushed about the fusion future as a solution to clean energy, global poverty, perhaps even world peace.On inspection, the advance was rather less sensational than these reports suggested. The researchers had achieved what is known as ignition, the condition where a fusion reaction produces more energy than it took to start it. But the scale of the accomplishment is not remotely close to what would be required to generate electricity for practical use, much less herald a new era of clean energy [see “Star Power”]. The power demands as reported didn't include the power needed to build the equipment and gear it up; the entire event lasted just a few seconds. And, ironically, the higher-than-expected energy yield damaged some of the diagnostic equipment in the experimental setup, casting doubt on whether ignition had even been achieved. Continued here

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Use Passwordless Logins to Drive Brand Loyalty With Secure, Seamless Customer Experiences     It's time to reduce password friction for your users. Here's how. Continued here

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This Small-brained Human Species May Have Buried Its Dead, Controlled Fire and Made Art     Extraordinary claims about small-brained human relative Homo naledi challenge prevailing view of cognitive evolutionIn the millions of years over which humans have been evolving, brain size has tripled, and behavior has become exponentially more elaborate. Early, small-brained hominins (members of the human family) made only simple stone tools; later, brainier ancestors invented more sophisticated implements and developed more advanced subsistence strategies. As for behavioral complexity in our own egg-headed species, Homo sapiens, well, we went all out—developing technology that carried us to every corner of the planet, ceremonially burying our dead, forming extensive social networks, and creating art, music and language rich in shared meaning. Scientists have long assumed that increasing brain size drove these technological and cognitive advances. Now startling new discoveries at a fossil site in South Africa are challenging this bedrock tenet of human evolution. Continued here

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How to Tap the Full Potential of Telemedicine     Telemedicine visits in the United States have fallen sharply since April 2020, but the end of the pandemic should not spell the end of telemedicine. It can play a valuable role in the delivery of health care. The key to tapping its potential is to bring many elements of the clinic to the patient. An array of new technologies and services is making that possible. Continued here

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Apple Expands Its On-Device Nudity Detection to Combat CSAM     In December, Apple announced that it was killing a controversial iCloud photo-scanning tool the company had devised to combat child sexual abuse material (CSAM) in what it said was a privacy-preserving way. Apple then said that its anti-CSAM efforts would instead center around its “Communication Safety” features for children, initially announced in August 2021. And at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference in Cupertino today, Apple debuted expansions to the mechanism, including an additional feature tailored to adults.Communication Safety scans messages locally on young users' devices to flag content that children are receiving or sending in messages on iOS that contain nudity. Apple announced today that the feature is also expanding to FaceTime video messages, Contact Posters in the Phone app, the Photos picker tool where users choose photos or videos to send, and AirDrop. The feature's on-device processing means that Apple never sees the content being flagged, but beginning this fall, Communication Safety will be turned on by default for all child accounts—kids under 13—in a Family Sharing plan. Parents can elect to disable the feature if they choose. Continued here

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How Do I Set the Right Pace To Meet Our Strategic Goals?     She loves the work she does and has effectively managed her career to gain increased responsibility over time. She’s recently started managing managers for the first time and is struggling to find the right pace to help her organization reach long-term strategic goals, amid some short-term uncertainty. Host Muriel Wilkins coaches her through setting goals and timelines for the long term. Continued here

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Ultrasound Puts Animals into a Curious Hibernation-Like State     A state of torpor might rescue oxygen-starved brain cells or aid extended human space missionsIn some species, when the going gets tough, the body hits the brakes, chilling body temperature and slowing metabolism to a snail’s pace in a state known as torpor. Humans do not enter torpor, but the condition might offer benefits across scenarios as seemingly unrelated as intensive care unit (ICU) stays and long-distance space travel. Continued here