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� � � � � � Why online retailers increasingly let shoppers keep returns—and don't really want you to know about it  - Fortune    This holiday shopping season, you might be surprised when you try to return an unwanted item. Instead of an online retailer confirming that a product can be returned for free—as many shoppers now expect—it might tell you to just keep it instead. The general trend among retailers like Amazon in recent years has been to make it as easy as possible to return unwanted merchandise bought online. But in some cases, it costs more for a retailer to have an item shipped back—and sorted and resold, if not disposed of—than it’s worth. (There’s also the environmental cost to consider.) This year, 59% of retailers offer “keep it” policies for such products, up from 26% last year, according to returns services firm goTRG, as Reuters reported. The firm surveyed 500 executives at 21 major retailers, among them Amazon and Walmart. Continued here � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail - Harvard Business Review    Businesses hoping to survive over the long term will have to remake themselves into better competitors at least once along the way. These efforts have gone under many banners: total quality management, reengineering, rightsizing, restructuring, cultural change, and turnarounds, to name a few. In almost every case, the goal has been to cope with a new, more challenging market by changing the way business is conducted. A few of these endeavors have been very successful. A few have been utter failures. Most fall somewhere in between, with a distinct tilt toward the lower end of the scale. John P. Kotter is renowned for his work on leading organizational change. In 1995, when this article was first published, he had just completed a ten-year study of more than 100 companies that attempted such a transformation. Here he shares the results of his observations, outlining the eight largest errors that can doom these efforts and explaining the general lessons that encourage success. Unsuccessful transitions almost always founder during at least one of the following phases: generating a sense of urgency, establishing a powerful guiding coalition, developing a vision, communicating the vision clearly and often, removing obstacles, planning for and creating short-term wins, avoiding premature declarations of victory, and embedding changes in the corporate culture. Continued here � � � � � � A Revelation About Trees Is Messing With Climate Calculations - WIRED    Every year between September and December, Lubna Dada makes clouds. Dada, an atmospheric scientist, convenes with dozens of her colleagues to run experiments in a 7,000-gallon stainless steel chamber at CERN in Switzerland. “It's like science camp,” says Dada, who studies how natural emissions react with ozone to create aerosols that affect the climate. Clouds are the largest source of uncertainty in climate predictions. Depending on location, cloud cover can reflect sunlight away from land and ocean that would otherwise absorb its heat—a rare perk in the warming world. But clouds can also trap heat over Arctic and Antarctic ice. Scientists want to know more about what causes clouds to form, and if that effect is cooling or heating. And most of all, says Dada, “We want to know how we humans have changed clouds.” In the sky, aerosol particles attract water vapor or ice. When the tiny wet globs get large enough, they become seeds for clouds. Half of Earth’s cloud cover forms around stuff like sand, salt, soot, smoke, and dust. The other half nucleates around vapors released by living things or machines, like the sulfur dioxide that arises from burning fossil fuels. Continued here � � � � � � Microdosing Psychedelics Could Help People With ADHD -     Continued here

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