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Mira Murati, the young CTO of OpenAI, is building ChatGPT and shaping your future - Fortune

Mere moments before Mira Murati, the chief technology officer of OpenAI, meets us at a conference room in the company’s San Francisco headquarters, another executive exits the space: cofounder and CEO Sam Altman. The nerdy frontman of the AI revolution darts in from another room, gathers his belongings—which, underwhelmingly, consist of just a laptop—and shuffles away quietly, clearing the path for Murati to take center stage.

It’s Altman who’s typically the public face of the best-known company in AI; in fact, he’d recently flown back from Washington, D.C., from talks with Congress about regulation. Less well known, but just as crucial to OpenAI’s soaring ascent, is Murati, who often tinkers just outside of the spotlight. Murati, 34, is the executive who manages the popular chatbot ChatGPT as well as DALL-E, an AI system that creates art from text—the products that have propelled OpenAI, which started eight years ago as a nonprofit research lab, to unforeseen heights.

After ChatGPT launched in November 2022, it amassed more than 100 million monthly active users in just two months, making it the fastest-growing consumer application in history. And as these products continue to evolve, sometimes in response to embarrassing or even disturbing glitches, it’s Murati who’s increasingly responsible for explaining the latest iterations to a public that can seem hyper-attuned to every breakthrough and misstep.

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The Little Things That Make Employees Feel Appreciated - Harvard Business Review

Most companies run some kind of employee-recognition programs, but often they fall flat, wasting resources. Many become just another box for managers to check or are seen as elite opportunities for a favored few, leaving the rest of the workforce feeling left out. Meanwhile, a lot of individual managers also fail to adequately express appreciation, mistakenly assuming that reports know how they feel or struggling to balance gratitude with developmental feedback. In focus groups and interviews, however, employees reveal that making them feel valued and recognized isn’t all that complicated: It mostly comes down to a lot of small, commonsense practices.

Imagine this scenario: An employee named Rowen arrives at work on his 10-year anniversary and finds a gift card with a sticky note on his desk. The note is from his manager, acknowledging his anniversary. Realizing it didn’t even include a thank-you or a congratulations, Rowen rolls his eyes.

While most companies run employee-recognition programs of some sort, all too often they produce reactions like Rowen’s. Instead of giving people a meaningful sense of appreciation, they become just another box for managers to check and are completely disconnected from employees’ accomplishments. Some companies try to make programs more relevant by giving specific awards to individuals who’ve, say, created and led an important new initiative, “embodied” the organization’s values in their behavior, or had a significant impact. Yet that approach has problems too: Awards can be seen as an elite opportunity for a chosen few — and leave the majority of the workforce feeling left out and overlooked.

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11 Simple Habits That Will Make You Happy Every Day, According to a UCLA Happiness Researcher - Inc.com

Do you want to be happier? Most of us think that the key to greater happiness is to make big changes in our lives. Surprisingly, research shows that increased happiness often comes from tiny changes to our daily or weekly routines. Each of these happiness habits can provide a powerful lift to your mood and your outlook on life. Do several of them together, and you're guaranteed to make yourself happier.

The key to increased happiness, Holmes writes, is how we spend our discretionary time--the hours when we get to choose what we do. Studies suggest that spending too much time watching TV or on social media can lead to unhappiness and even depression, whereas activities such as social interaction, exercise, and spending time in nature lead to greater happiness.

With this research in mind, starting a few small habits can have an outsize effect on how you feel. Give a few of them a try, or try all of them together if you want a real happiness boost.

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CVS CEO Karen Lynch is again the most powerful woman in business - Fortune

Fortune’s Most Powerful Women list is out this morning, and it not only shows how far women have come in the quarter century since this list was created, but also how important they are in driving business and societal change. No. 1 on the list is CVS CEO Karen Lynch, who is trying to remake health care by melding insurance + pharmacies + health clinics + home health care. No. 2 is Accenture CEO Julie Sweet, who is the leading voice for advising businesses on how to navigate the AI revolution. No. 3 is GM CEO Mary Barra, whose bold statement in 2021 to eliminate all carbon emissions from her company’s cars by 2035 has transformed not only the company, but the industry. And No. 4 is Citi CEO Jane Fraser, who is trying to show testosterone-soaked New York bankers how empathy can be a powerful tool for transforming business.

You can find the full list here. Pay attention to how well these women have penetrated the most important sectors of the economy—from logistics (No. 6 UPS CEO Carol Tomé) to pharmaceuticals (No. 7 GSK CEO Emma Walmsley) to tech (No. 8 Google CFO Ruth Porat, No. 11 Oracle CEO Safra Catz and No. 12 AMD CEO Lisa Su) to finance (No. 16 TIAA CEO Thasunda Brown Ducket and No. 19 Banco Santander executive chairman Ana Botín) to the defense industry (No. 20 Northrop Grumman CEO Kathy Warden and No. 21 General Dynamics CEO Phebe Novakovic).

All told, there are still only 52 of the Fortune 500 led by women…barely over 10%. But a new report out this morning from McKinsey shows women’s representation in the C-Suite reached 28% this year…the highest it has ever been. You can read the full report here.

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