   
CEO Picks - The best that international journalism has to offer!
 S18How to Get Your Side Hustle Off the Ground   People pursue side hustles for all kinds of reasons: they want to earn extra money, they’re interested in starting a business, or they’re attracted to the flexibility of being their own boss. But these ventures often take capital to get off the ground. How can you get yours up and running? Here are five approaches:
Continued here
|
S1
S2ArChan Chan's Sweet-soy chicken wings from Hong Kong  In Hong Kong, there is no shortage of good chicken wing spots, from Taiwanese fried wings at snack stands and Korean fried chicken joints to all-you-can-eat Buffalo wings at American restaurants.Out of all the options, however, Swiss chicken wings are one of the most popular choices, available at cha chaan tengs – Hong Kong's version of cafes or diners.
Continued here
|
S3Khowsey: a festive South Asian spaghetti curry  Khowsey is a beloved spaghetti curry in Karachi, Pakistan, with different dialects spelling and pronouncing it as khao suey, khoi soi, khowsa, khawsa and many other ways. It is championed most fervently by the Memon community, a Muslim ethnic group known for their affinity for trade and entrepreneurial prowess in the city. However, historically, it isn't a Pakistani dish at all.Memon businessmen and traders who had established themselves in British-occupied Burma (now Myanmar) in the 19th Century were forced to return to the subcontinent after the military junta regime in the 1960s. When they returned to Pakistan and India, they brought a version of flavourful Burmese Ohn-No Kyaukse, noodles with chicken in a coconut milk-based broth (often thickened with chickpea flour). When the Memon traders settled in Karachi, they made the dish their own by heaping on the spice and zest. They swapped out egg noodles for easily accessible spaghetti, and a served rich curry made with yoghurt and gram (chickpea) flour on the side to drown the noodles, before adding a decadent, fall-apart meat gravy on top.
Continued here
|
S4Bitcoin: four reasons why the price should surge in 2024  The year 2023 will be remembered as turbulent for cryptocurrencies, with numerous important developments that ultimately helped to “clean up” the space to potentially make it more attractive to mainstream investors. Notably there was the conviction of FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried for fraud. Top exchange Binance also reached a US$4 billion settlement (£3.1 billion) with the US treasury department over money-laundering charges, which saw CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao agreeing to step down and pay a US$50 million fine.
Continued here
|
S5
S6After 3 months of devastation in the Israel-Hamas war, is anyone 'winning'?  The 19th century German war strategist and field marshal Helmuth von Moltke famously coined the aphorism “No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy”. His observation might well be applied to the tragedy we are witnessing in Gaza.Three months after the current conflict began, civilians have borne the brunt of the violence on both sides, with the deaths of more than 22,000 Palestinians in Gaza and 1,200 Israelis. Some 85% of Gazans have also been displaced and a quarter of the population is facing a famine, according to the United Nations.
Continued here
|
S7Senegal's small scale gold miners still use poisonous mercury: how to reduce the harm  These warnings are shown at thousands of lakes and rivers globally, as well as on numerous fish products.But eating mercury-laden fish is not the only source of mercury exposure. Even more dangerous is the inhalation of mercury vapours, which are released as mercury is used in the extraction of another trace element – gold. Miners inhaling mercury vapour can experience the same toxic effects as people eating mercury-laden food: limb tremors, blurred vision, loss of limb functionality, and even death. Globally, between 10 million and 19 million people work in artisanal and small-scale gold mining.
Continued here
|
S8Taxes on e-cigarettes: South Africa must strike a balance between economic arguments and health concerns  The 21st century has seen a massive expansion in the ways that people can consume tobacco and nicotine. Innovative new products include electronic nicotine delivery systems (“ENDS” or e-cigarettes) and heat-not-burn (HnB) products. Combustible tobacco products like cigarettes and loose tobacco are generally taxed at similar rates since the harmful behaviour tied to these products – inhaling tobacco toxins released by burning – is the same. But e-cigarettes don’t contain tobacco and HnB devices do not burn tobacco. Nevertheless, they contain nicotine, which is addictive.
Continued here
|
S9The Biggest Election Year in History  Democracy, according to many observers, is now in the hands of a small band of voters in a half-dozen swing states, whose feelings about Donald Trump will determine whether it endures or falls. From that perspective, all the other voting across the country this year, beginning with the Iowa caucuses, next week, is merely a gruelling prelude to the tense wait, on November 5th, for results from Maricopa County and the Philadelphia suburbs. Much does depend on those voters. But democracy’s struggles will play out on a far vaster field. Thanks to an alignment of calendars, 2024 will set a record for the greatest number of people living in countries that are holding nationwide elections: more than four billion, or just over half of humanity. Even more depends on them.This year is about voting, in all its hazardous glory. There are different ways of counting, but The Economist has tallied seventy-six countries where the whole eligible population has the chance to vote, even if, as in Brazil, it’s only for local offices. (That election, in October, should serve as a midterm assessment of President Luis Inácio Lula da Silva.) The countries involved—from Algeria to Iceland, Indonesia, and Venezuela—are startlingly varied, including in their commitment to actual democracy. The Economist rated forty-three of the elections as free and fair, with flaws even in the freest, ours among them. One of The Economist’s tests is whether an election has the capacity to bring about real change, in terms of policy and who is in power. Put another way, the stability of democracies depends on the capacity of elections to be destabilizing. An election that doesn’t involve some risk, to someone, is hardly any good.
Continued here
|
S10The Cryptic Crossword: Sunday, January 7, 2024  By signing up, you agree to our User Agreement and Privacy Policy & Cookie Statement. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.© 2024 Condé Nast. All rights reserved. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement and Your California Privacy Rights. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. Ad Choices
Continued here
|
S11Netflix Just Quietly Released the Most Wildly Entertaining Action Thriller of the Year  Netflix hasn’t had a particularly great track record when it comes to the action comedy show. Medical Police and Teenage Bounty Hunters only lasted a single season, the dismal critical response suggests Obliterated will follow suit and even the almighty presence of Arnold Schwarzenegger couldn’t stop FUBAR from flying under the radar. However, proving Michelle Yeoh can do no wrong, The Brothers Sun is the streaming giant’s first such show that could be classed as unmissable.Created by regular Ryan Murphy cohort Brad Falchuk and relative unknown Byron Wu, the eight-part drama stars Yeoh as Eileen ‘Mama’ Sun, a Taiwanese native who’s spent the last 10 years living the domestic life in Los Angeles mollycoddling her medical student son Bruce (Sam Song Li). But their peaceful existence is shattered one day when her estranged first-born Charles (Justin Chien) shows up at their front door.
Continued here
|
S12The 13 Most Exciting Video Games Coming Out In 2024  We’ve been through the best indie games of 2024, but what about the biggest ones? After combing through video game blog mines, developers’ tacit teasers, and the fine print on the back of the box, we’re bringing you the biggest and best video games of 2024 to sit on the edge of your seat to wait for. This is no world premiere, but instead a meaty list of the absolute most phenomenal games we’re holding our breath for. Everything from a new Star Wars, Final Fantasy, and a solo adventure for Princess Peach means it’s going to be another great year of video game releases that might just rival 2023’s incredible lineup.
Continued here
|
S13Can Home Electronics Harm Your Pet? A Veterinarian Reveals What To Turn Off  Sirens, thunder, vacuum cleaners, and fireworks can wreak havoc on your pet. Subtler sounds — ones that don’t even register to human ears — may also affect them. But how can you know what your pets can hear, especially if you can’t hear it yourself? Understanding your pet’s hearing capabilities and the quiet cacophony of your home could help identify any nuisances.If something bothers our pet, it often shows up in their behavior. Katherine Houpt, professor emeritus of behavioral medicine at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, recounts to Inverse one instance she remembers about one couple whose dog “suddenly began to pace.” Worried, “they took it to the emergency room where they had a huge bill. But they noticed that as soon as they left the house, the dog was fine.”
Continued here
|
S14Hands Down the 50 Weirdest, Most Clever Things for Your Home on Amazon Under $35  Sure, Amazon is chock full of items that make us stop and think, “Is this for real?” But some are most definitely more clever and useful than others. If there’s something out there that can instantly add form or function to our homes or daily routines, we’re all for it. From unusual ways to add lighting to your home to an ingenious hanger that slows down banana ripening, here are the 50 weirdest but smartest things for your living space, all under $35.Two snack dishes are better than one, as proven by this double-dish snack bowl. Great for those moments when you’re munching on things with pits, seeds, or shells, the bottom bowl is designed to catch your snack debris, while the other bowl holds the main event. Genius.
Continued here
|
S15'Dune 2' Needs to Change the Book's Ending in One Brutally Necessary Way  In March 2024, the big-screen version of the first novel will be complete, but the story is far from over.In March 2024, the big-screen journey of Timothée Chalamet’s version of Paul Atreides will be over. Dune: Part Two adapts the second half of the famous Frank Herbert novel Dune, and, effectively concludes the journey of Paul from a wise teenager to Emperor of the Universe. And if the ending of the movie is anything like the ending of the novel, audiences will certainly leave with a clearer sense of closure than they got in 2021.
Continued here
|
S16How EMDR therapy helped me heal from the trauma of a carjack | Aeon Essays  is a freelance journalist with a background in news production. She is based in New Orleans, Louisiana.I wore leggings that Tuesday. I never wore leggings to work, but that winter three years ago the New Orleans heat was in hibernation. Ice climbed up my windows, and my sweater almost reached my knees. I whispered: ‘Be good, I love you,’ to the puppy sound asleep in his crate and the groggy cat still snuggled in bed before I stepped out into the unseasonably cold January air. A neighbour’s motion-sensor light blinked on to help me navigate the blackness. It was 12:50am; my shift at the news station started in 10 minutes. My fingers became numb quickly, making it difficult to turn the key in the lock. I speed-walked to my car, my beautiful, white Hyundai Kona, my college graduation gift from my parents. I twisted the heat all the way up, slapped the seat-heater button, and turned my Spotify to Maggie Rogers’s new album. With my hands pulled into my North Face sleeves, I grabbed the wheel.
Continued here
|
S17For ages, solo sex was hardly taboo. What led to its centuries-long dry spell? | Aeon Videos  For the vast majority of humans throughout history, masturbation has been a natural norm rather than a taboo. The brief animation ‘Masturbation: A Short History of a Great Taboo’ (2022) traces much of the blame for ‘the offensive against solo sex’ across the past several centuries back to a curious pamphlet titled Onania: Or, the Heinous Sin of Self-Pollution (c1712), which, written by a now-unknown author, attributed both moral injury and physical malady to self-pleasure. The short is part of the documentary series Magical Caresses, dedicated to ‘solo sexuality’, by the Canadian filmmaker Lori Malépart-Traversy, who previously employed her charming animation style to explore sexuality with Le Clitoris (2016).
Continued here
|
S19Before You Start a Business, Listen to Your Ego  When I meet entrepreneurs I always ask them why they started their companies and they almost always say something like “because I had a great idea the world needed.” But when you peel back the layers you discover far different motives – motives they don’t want to acknowledge because they’re directly related to primal desires and fears. Yet the well-being of their businesses depends on their understanding those real motives.
Continued here
|
S20Refugees Need Jobs. Entrepreneurship Can Help.  Refugees pouring into Europe from Africa and the Middle East have arguably created the greatest crisis for the “European Experiment” since it began after World War II. People are wringing their hands or shaking their fists: What to do about the millions of migrants and refugees crossing seas and borders into the West? What to do about the million asylum applications to Europe?
Continued here
|
S21What Entrepreneurs Get Wrong  Salesmanship is central to a start-up’s success, but many entrepreneurs ignore this simple fact. They may believe that their idea will sell itself or that there’s no point visiting a prospective customer without a finished product in hand. Those who search for sales advice find mostly tools and techniques for established companies.
Continued here
|
S22A Failure That Still Haunts Me My most irritating — and surprising — professional failure came from what I thought would be a straightforward success. In the immortal words of failed CIA intelligence director George Tenet, I had a “slam dunk” innovation opportunity with a top MIT lab. I was wrong. Completely. It continues to bother me.
Continued here
|
S23S24Corporate Governance Should Combine the Best of Private Equity and Family Firms  The public corporation is typically bedeviled by the gap between managers’ and shareholders’ interests. Over the years, governance has attempted to close that gap by aligning incentives with measures of performance. These attempts have often failed. But where they have succeeded, they have left public corporations increasingly swayed by short-term results (which are easy to measure) at the expense of future success.
Continued here
|
S25A Small Business Is Not a Little Big Business A traditional assumption among managers has been that small businesses should use essentially the same management principles as big businesses, only on a smaller scale. Underlying that assumption has been the notion that small companies are much like big companies, except that small businesses have lower sales, smaller assets, and fewer employees.
Continued here
|
S26S27Cracking the Code That Stalls People of Color  It’s a topic which corporations once routinely ignored, then dismissed, and are only now beginning to discuss: the dearth of professionals of color in senior positions. Professionals of color hold only 11% of executive posts in corporate America. Among Fortune 500 CEOs, only six are black, eight are Asian, and eight are Hispanic.
Continued here
|
S28What You're Getting Wrong About Customer Journeys  Companies often believe they should make their customers’ experiences as effortless and predictable as possible. But the authors’ research shows that this approach is overly simplistic—and can even backfire. While in some instances (say, watching movies on Netflix) customers want their journeys to be easy and familiar, in others (working out on a Peloton bike or playing World of Warcraft) they want to be challenged or surprised.
Continued here
|
S29Customers as Innovators: A New Way to Create Value How has GE Plastics fueled much of its growth, generated one-third of its new customer leads, and cut customer-service calls in half? It enables its customers to improve products—by accessing GE’s engineering knowledge and simulation software through its Web-based product-development “tool kits.”
Continued here
|
S30How Sephora Reorganized to Become a More Digital Brand  Sephora, the cosmetics retailer, has been widely recognized as a leader in integrating its digital marketing efforts into its overall strategy. As one sign of that, Sephora has a single executive who serves as both chief marketing officer and chief digital officer. Julie Bornstein told HBR how she’s leading Sephora’s efforts online and offline. Edited excerpts:
Continued here
|
S31How P&G and American Express Are Approaching AI  There is a tendency with any new technology to believe that it requires new management approaches, new organizational structures, and entirely new personnel. That impression is widespread with cognitive technologies — which comprises a range of approaches in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and deep learning. Some have argued for the creation of “chief cognitive officer” roles, and certainly many firms are rushing to hire experts with deep learning expertise. “New and different” is the ethos of the day.
Continued here
|
S32First Mover or Fast Follower? Transformational developments are swirling around the banking industry — as they are in nearly every industry. Companies like Citigroup are reimagining bank branches. Startups like Simple are suggesting that it’s time to get rid of branches altogether. Square, Swiff, Silver, and PayPal want to bring payments processing to smaller merchants. Mobile phone companies are getting into financial services. Microlending has exploded. Companies like Facebook and Tencent make hundreds of millions through microtransactions. The mobile wallet is coming, with Apple and Google lurking in the background.
Continued here
|
S33Sony: Winning the DVD Battle But Losing the Innovation War? It’s often said that generals “fight the last war.” They use tactics that worked in the last war and struggle when conditions change in ways that render those tactics ineffective. For example, after years of bloody trench warfare in World War I, France built heavy fortifications along its borders (the “Maginot Line”) to prevent a full-on assault. The German’s innovative “blitzkrieg” model obviated France’s brute force.
Continued here
|
S34What Patients Like -- and Dislike -- About Telemedicine  A survey of more than one million patients found that while patients appreciate the convenience and, perhaps surprisingly, intimacy of virtual encounters, there is enormous room for improvement in the processes of telemedicine. Key to success will be to create a seamless, low-friction experience.
Continued here
|
S35Aereo and the Strange Case of Broadcasters Who Don't Want to Be Broadcast The Supreme Court’s big Aereo decision today came down to whether the company’s internet TV service more closely resembled a cable company or “a copy shop that provides its patrons with a library card” (the quote is from Antonin Scalia’s dissenting opinion). A majority of six justices decided it was more like the former, which seems pretty reasonable. But that led them to declare that Aereo’s business of giving customers access to free, over-the-air television programming via the internet amounted to a copyright violation, which seems a little crazy.
Continued here
|
S36"It Will Need to Be the Most Amazing Thing Humankind Has Ever Done"  Climate change is a pressing concern for Bill Gates, who has just published a new book on the subject. He spoke with HBR’s editor in chief about the need to reduce carbon emissions to zero by 2050—and the difficulty of that undertaking. It will require new government policies, changes in corporate and individual behavior, and, above all, more R&D funding and innovation to create cleaner technologies and green products. Gates is optimistic that we can succeed but clear-eyed about what lies ahead if we don’t: rising temperatures, the disappearance of ecosystems, disastrous crop failures, economic pain, and massive loss of life.
Continued here
|
S37S38S39S40S41S42S43S44S45S46The sound maps that predict poachers' movements  In the Upper Paraná Atlantic Forest lies the world-renowned Iguazu Falls. On one side of the towering cascades is the Iguazú National Park of Argentina, on the other is the Iguaçu National Park of Brazil. Greened by over 2,000 plant species, the landscape is home to an array of creatures, including the charismatic jaguar. And to the million-plus tourists who visit each year, the region may appear to be part of a vast expanse of thriving biodiversity.But for those like Yara Barros, who know it well, Iguazú's parks are in fact "an island of life in the midst of deforestation". Barros is a biologist and coordinator of Onças do Iguaçu, a Brazilian jaguar conservation project. She explains that in the Atlantic Forest's entire 140,000 sq km (54,054 sq miles), there are only 300 jaguars. As many as one-third now live inside the narrow 2,400 sq km (927 sq miles) corridor protected by the parks.
Continued here
|
S47S4810 Great Deals on Laptops, Routers, and Apple Watch  Next week, the gadget world will be focused on the Consumer Electronics Show, better known as CES, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Gadget makers will showcase their latest wares, some of which will later become actual products. Maybe. Whatever the case, retailers are clearing out old stock at the moment, which means there are plenty of deals to be had on tech.If you buy something using links in our stories, we may earn a commission. This helps support our journalism. Learn more.
Continued here
|
S49Pick the Philips Wired Camera if You Love Hue  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 WIREDWith an established reputation for quality smart lighting, albeit at a hefty cost, Philips Hue is a well-known brand. A move into the saturated security market may seem incongruous, but there are reasons to buy a Philips Hue Secure camera. Trust, reliability, and seamless syncing with Hue lights will tempt some, but distinctly average specs, the need for a subscription, and the lack of HomeKit support make it a tough sell for others.
Continued here
|
S50The 18 Best Games on PlayStation Plus  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 WIREDIt’s been more than three years since Sony’s PlayStation 5 release. (That was a wild moment in time!) Whether you’re one of the 40 million people who’ve already snatched a PS5 or you’re still holding onto that dusty PS4, PlayStation Plus is a worthwhile video game subscription service. While longtime PlayStation devotees may have to really dig through the catalog to uncover a delightful surprise, new adoptees will revel in the available choices.
Continued here
|
S51Cyborg computer combining AI and human brain cells really works  A new biohybrid computer combining a “brain organoid” and a traditional AI was able to perform a speech recognition task with 78% accuracy — demonstrating the potential for human biology to one day boost our computing capabilities.The background: The human brain is the most energy efficient “computer” on Earth — while a supercomputer needs 20 megawatts of power to process more than a quintillion calculations per second, your brain can do the equivalent with just 20 watts (a megawatt is 1 million watts).
Continued here
|
S52Starts With A Bang podcast #101 - Quantum Computing  Happy new year, everyone, and with a new year comes a spectacular new podcast! We normally cover an intricate and underappreciated aspect of astrophysics on the podcast, but I had the opportunity to bring on a true expert in the field of quantum computing and just couldn’t pass it up.You’ve likely heard a lot of noise about quantum computers and the benefits that they’re poised to bring, with buzzwords like “P=NP,” “quantum supremacy,” and “quantum advantage” tossed around, but a lot of what you’re likely to hear is hype, not actual science. Good thing I was able to get Dr. Riccardo Manenti as a guest for our podcast!
Continued here
|
S53A vaccine for depression  One sunny day this fall, I caught a glimpse of the new psychiatry. At a mental hospital near Yale University, a depressed patient was being injected with ketamine. For 40 minutes, the drug flowed into her arm, bound for cells in her brain. If it acts as expected, ketamine will become the first drug to quickly stop suicidal drive, with the potential to save many lives. Other studies of ketamine are evaluating its effect as a vaccination against depression and post-traumatic stress. Between them, the goal is nothing less than to redefine our understanding of mental illness itself.Depression is the most common mental illness in the United States, affecting 30 percent of Americans at some point in their lives. But despite half a century of research, ubiquitous advertising, and blockbuster sales, antidepressant drugs just don’t work very well. They treat depression as if it were caused by a chemical imbalance: Pump in more of one key ingredient, or sop up another, and you will have fixed the problem.
Continued here
|
S54Big evolutionary change tied to lots of small differences  The version of evolution proposed by Charles Darwin focused on slow, incremental changes that only gradually build into the sort of differences that separate species. But that doesn't rule out the potential for sudden, dramatic changes. Indeed, some differences make it difficult to understand what a transitional state would look like, suggesting that a major leap might be needed.
Continued here
|
S55East Coast land continues to collapse at a worrying rate  Unless you’re sinking into quicksand, you might assume that the land beneath your feet is solid and unmoving. In actual fact, your part of the world may well be undergoing “subsidence,” which is where the ground collapses as sediments settle or when people over-extract groundwater. New York City is sinking, too, due to the weight of all those buildings pushing on the ground. In extreme cases, like in California’s agriculturally intensive San Joaquin Valley, elevations have plummeted not by inches, but by dozens of feet.
Continued here
|
S56S57Lots of People Will Vote This Year. That Doesn't Mean Democracy Will Survive.  The greatest paradox of modern politics is that there are more elections than ever before in human history, and yet the world is becoming less democratic.Voting will take place in more than 60 countries this year—an unprecedented number—containing roughly half of the global population. But even with all this voting, democracy is under severe threat, endangered by predatory politicians who rig elections and disgruntled voters willing to hand over power to autocratic leaders. The most pivotal election will take place in November, when the world’s most powerful democracy decides whether to turn itself over to an avowedly authoritarian demagogue.
Continued here
|
S58The Vibes Are Off During the First Week of the Year  Every new year, as the fireworks and midnight makeouts turn into resolutions to journal consistently or bury your cigarettes in the trash, as you stride into the first week of the year full of good intentions, you may notice a sinking sensation: The vibes are just … off. Perhaps you were impatient with colleagues back in the office, or you struggled to text anyone back, or you found yourself elbow-deep in the trash digging out your cigarettes (sadly, they were unsalvageable). The holidays may have left you grumpy and exhausted from late nights drinking and unprocessed family tensions. Yet, when the new year hit, you were fire-hosed with messages from gyms and dentists about making 2024 the best year of your life. Or maybe you had a relaxing, magical holiday, and the new-year push for productivity is dragging you reluctantly out of your cozy cave.New Year’s is an inconsiderate holiday. It demands renewal where very little exists. Your job isn’t any less boring in 2024 than it was in 2023. After a few days of intense cardio yoga, your body likely feels creaky and yanked. You may yearn for the rest you received during the last week of the year (a week that Helena Fitzgerald aptly dubbed Dead Week). Even if you don’t make resolutions or buy into the hype of the new year, getting back to regular life while the self-improvement frenzy unfolds around you can be pretty jarring. What most of us experience during the first week of the year is not a transcendent evolution into the lives we’ve been longing to lead but a clash between expectations and reality. Call it New Year’s Whiplash.
Continued here
|
S59A Different Vision for Earth's Demise  In 5 billion years, our sun will balloon into a red giant star. Whether Earth survives is an “open question,” Melinda Soares-Furtado, an astrophysicist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, says. Sure, Earth could be swallowed by the sun and destroyed. But in some scenarios, Earth escapes and is pushed farther out into the solar system.Now a nearby planetary system has offered clues to our planet’s cosmic hereafter. About 57 light-years away, four planets orbit a sunlike star that is some 10 billion years old—about twice as old as the sun, and already in the advanced stages of its life. Stephen Kane, an astrophysicist specializing in planetary habitability at UC Riverside, recently modeled what might happen to the elderly system’s planets when the star becomes a red giant in a billion years. He found that most of the inner planets will be engulfed but that the outermost known planet, which has an orbit somewhat similar to Venus’s, might survive.
Continued here
|
S60How Trump Taught America to Tolerate Brazen Corruption  Have you heard about the president who received money from China and other foreign countries? No, not the current president. The former one.House Republicans recently launched an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, premised on the claim that he is hiding, in the words of Speaker Mike Johnson, “millions of dollars in payments from America’s foreign adversaries.” As yet, they have produced no evidence to back up the idea that Biden profited. (The payments they have flagged involve the business interests of his son Hunter Biden, who is facing two separate federal indictments at the moment, and his brother James.)
Continued here
|
S61Lloyd Austin Owes Americans an Explanation  The secretary of defense has taken “full responsibility” for failing to inform the public of his hospitalization, but that’s not enough.Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin was hospitalized this week, and apparently, the president of the United States didn’t know about it—for days.
Continued here
|
S62S63How T-Mobile Brought Collaboration to Customer Service  There are no rows of service agents robotically responding to random calls as quickly as possible. Instead, T-Mobile relies on colocated, collaborative teams of reps who manage specific accounts in a given locale, with a focus on autonomous problem solving. Reps get more-comprehensive training, managers get more time for coaching, and team members are evaluated on group performance as well as individual performance. In addition, teams are authorized and expected to manage their own P&L statements.
Continued here
|
S64What Skeptics Get Wrong About Crypto's Volatility  One of the leading arguments against crypto is its volatility. In the wake of the most recent downturn, critics have doubled down on this point. But the argument misses an important insight about how crypto assets differ from those in traditional finance. While different coins are meant to serve different functions, today they all more or less act as startup equity — and often serve as hybrid assets, treated as commodities, currency, store of value, and incentive for the validators that make a project function. Unlike traditional equity, crypto assets have liquidity and price discovery from the start. This does mean that crypto markets are more sensitive to signals and changes. The overlooked feature of this, however, is that price swings communicate important information to founders and investors, and builds previously unseen levels of transparency into the system.
Continued here
|
S65Adding More Data Isn't the Only Way to Improve AI  Sometimes an AI-based system can’t decipher the physical world with a sufficient degree of accuracy and the option of just adding more data isn’t possible. In many of these cases, however, this deficiency can be addressed by using four techniques to help AI better understand the physical world: synergize AI with scientific laws, augment data with expert human insights, employ devices to explain how AI makes decisions, and use other models to predict behavior.
Continued here
|
S66Can Your Sales Team Actually Achieve Their Stretch Goals?  Sales leaders have a deep-seated belief in using stretch goals to challenge a sales force. Stretch goals are correctly credited with guiding effort, promoting innovative thinking, energizing salespeople, and boosting persistence. Many successful companies have lived the virtuous cycle: Sales leaders set a stretch goal, the sales force surpasses it, and sales force morale and confidence gets a boost. But we’ve also seen, with increasing frequency in the last decade, companies set stretch goals that are impossible to achieve. What masquerades as a stretch goal is really wishful thinking or misguided sales goal padding.
Continued here
|
S67Stop Feeling Guilty About Delegating  Overriding guilt around delegation is not easy. Especially when you and your team are already time-strapped, it can feel misguided to invest in delegating. But remember this investment will unlock longer-term benefits: time savings and more capable, engaged employees. In this piece, the author offers five strategies to help you delegate more often and with less guilt.
Continued here
|
S68How Will You Measure Your Company's Life? Clayton Christensen’s book How Will You Measure Your Life has turned into a well-deserved best seller. Beyond drawing individual lessons from the book, corporate leaders should turn the central framing question on their organizations — asking how they will measure their company’s lives.
Continued here
|
S69What to Ask the Person in the Mirror  Every leader gets off track from time to time. But as leaders rise through the ranks, they have fewer and fewer opportunities for honest and direct feedback. Their bosses are no longer monitoring their actions, and by the time management missteps have a negative impact on business results, it’s usually too late to make course corrections that will set things right. Therefore, it is wise to go through a self-assessment, to periodically step back from the bustle of running a business and ask some key questions of yourself.
Continued here
|
S70Seven Transformations of Leadership Every company needs transformational leaders—those who spearhead changes that elevate profitability, expand market share, and change the rules of the game in their industry. But few executives understand the unique strengths needed to become such a leader. Result? They miss the opportunity to develop those strengths. They and their firms lose out.
Continued here
|
 |
TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 10,00,000 Industry Executives About Us | Advertise Privacy Policy Unsubscribe (one-click) You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs.
Our mailing address is GF 25/39, West Patel Nagar, New Delhi 110008, India |
