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� � � � � � Turn Your Boss Into a Sponsor - Harvard Business Review    When you’re starting out in your career, having a sponsor, or someone senior in your workplace who is invested in your growth and career progression, can help you get ahead. Here are some ways to turn your boss into a sponsor: I asked this question while leading a workshop for about 80 professionals, ranging from early-career individuals to mid-level managers. To my surprise, only one hand went up. The rest, turns out, had never had a sponsor before. Many, including some senior leaders, were not even familiar with the concept. If you’re in the same boat, here’s what you need to know: A sponsor is someone senior in your workplace who is invested in your growth and career progression. This person could be your boss, the leader of an adjacent business unit, or even a C-suite executive. Their positional power gives them access to rooms where big decisions are made: who’s promoted, who leads the next big project, or who gets a raise. In these spaces, a sponsor has the authority to put your name on the table. Research shows that having an influential person who can vouch for your reputation and abilities can boost your career growth by one or two levels. Continued here � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium A NATO country could soon have a pro-Russian leader | CNN -     Slovakia is getting ready to elect its fifth prime minister in just four years, and with Kremlin sympathizer Robert Fico’s opposition party leading the polls, it is one being watched with alarm in the West. Since Russia invaded Ukraine last February, Slovakia has been one of Kyiv’s staunchest allies. The two countries share a border, Slovakia was the first country to send air defenses to Ukraine and it welcomed tens of thousands of refugees. But all that could change if Fico comes to power. The former prime minister makes no secret of his sympathies towards the Kremlin and has blamed “Ukrainian Nazis and fascists” for provoking Russia’s President Vladimir Putin into launching the invasion, repeating the false narrative Putin has used to justify his invasion. Continued here � � � � � � How TikTok Has Exposed Celebrities And Politicians' Closest Personal Contacts - Forbes    They're just a handful of the high-profile celebrities and public figures whose closest contacts could be searched and scrutinized by nearly any TikTok or ByteDance employee around the world this year with few restrictions, according to people familiar with one of the company's social graph tools and a trove of internal images, videos, audio and communications related to it that were obtained by Forbes. Every major social media platform maintains granular information showing who its users are connected to and how—whether they're closed, private accounts with a small network or open, public handles with tens of millions of followers. The companies also have tools that help them analyze that data. In that way, TikTok is no different than its rivals. But people who've worked there—and at competitors like Meta—believe the social mapping tools used by TikTok and its Chinese parent ByteDance may allow more extensive monitoring of users than those at other companies. What sets TikTok apart, they say, is the apparent lack of controls that exist on such intimate data; the ease with which it can be mined by workers who don't need access to it; and the inferences staff can make about individual users and their social circles from that data. And despite the company publicly arguing otherwise, sources and experts say that TikTok's Chinese ownership—and the ability to access such sensitive data in China—magnify concerns over how the tool might be abused. Continued here � � � � � � The Origins of the Socialist Slur - The Atlantic    Reconstruction-era opponents of racial equality popularized the charge that protecting civil rights would amount to the end of capitalism. For years after World War II, the “liberal consensus”—the New Deal idea that the federal government had a role to play in regulating business, providing a basic social safety net, and promoting infrastructure—was a true consensus. It was so widely popular that in 1950, the critic Lionel Trilling wrote of the United States that “liberalism is not only the dominant but even the sole intellectual tradition.” But the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision declaring segregation in public schools unconstitutional tied the federal government to ensuring not just economic equality, but also civil rights. Opponents of the liberal consensus argued that the newly active federal government was misusing tax dollars taken from hardworking white men to promote civil rights for “undeserving” Black people. The troops President Dwight Eisenhower sent to Little Rock Central High School in 1957, for example, didn’t come cheap. The government’s defense of civil rights redistributed wealth, they said, and so was virtually socialism. Continued here

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