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CEO Picks - The best that international journalism has to offer!  S37What to Do When You Feel Stuck at Work   We all feel stuck sometimes, unable to overcome barriers in the face of seemingly intractable challenges. In such moments, people are often inclined to think and behave in ways that contribute to keeping them stuck. They may judge or dismiss new ideas without giving them a chance, make assumptions that close of possibilities, or fear making mistakes in order to appear perfect. Here are some mindset and behavior shifts that people can make to enhance their chances of getting unstuck and reaching a breakthrough.
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S2S3Research: How Women Can Build High-Status Networks - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)  In the context of career advancement, the notion that “It’s not what you know, but who you know” holds some truth. However, for many women, this concept presents unique challenges. Despite the potential career benefits of building high-status connections within an organization, research has long shown that women face greater obstacles in establishing such connections compared to men. Our research, published in the Academy of Management Journal, offers new insights into this persistent challenge, and we share some of those insights in this article.
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S4The Place to Buy Kurt Cobainâs Sweater and Truman Capoteâs Ashes - The New Yorker (No paywall)  The sidewalks of Lower Broadway in downtown Nashville are filled with people moving among neon-lit venues owned by celebrity musicians: Kid Rock's Big Ass Honky Tonk & Rock 'n' Roll Steakhouse, Jason Aldean's Kitchen & Rooftop Bar, Miranda Lambert's Casa Rosa. The Hard Rock Café, which opened in 1994, when the neighborhood could still reasonably be called eclectic, sits at the far edge of the strip, overlooking the Cumberland River. One evening last November, Julien's Auctions took over a private room at the restaurant for a three-day sale in honor of the company's twentieth anniversary. There was a spotlighted stage full of objects that musicians had worn or touched or played: a scratched amber ring that Janis Joplin wore onstage at the Monterey Pop Festival, in 1967; Prince's gold snakeskin-print suit, small enough to fit on an adolescent-size mannequin; ripped jeans that had belonged to Kurt Cobain.In the past year, the fine-art market has cooled, owing to uncertainty about the economy, but prices for celebrity-adjacent objects keep going up. A few weeks before the Julien's event, Sotheby's had auctioned off Freddie Mercury's estate, drawing the most bidders the house had seen in two decades. "There was zero rationality to the valuations," Chase McCue, the director of memorabilia at Hard Rock International, told me. "His mustache comb went for almost two hundred thousand." The sale brought in more than fifteen million dollars, nearly quadruple the high estimate.
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S5S6How Much Advil Is Too Much?  Scan the label of over-the-counter ibuprofen and you’ll see that adults and children 12 years and older are advised to take one (or two, if needed) 200-milligram tablets, caplets or gel caplets every four to six hours while symptoms persist. And those taking the drug should not exceed 1,200 milligrams (or six pills) in 24 hours.
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S7S8Flagship NASA space telescope faces a penny-pinching death  On March 11, 2024, the Biden-Harris administration released the President’s budget for the 2025 fiscal year. Despite touting itself as supporting space and climate leadership, it instead seeks to do the unthinkable: to completely kill off NASA’s flagship X-ray observatory, Chandra. Launched in 1999, Chandra will celebrate 25 years in space on July 23 of this year: continuing a long string of NASA missions to monumentally surpass its originally planned mission lifetime. Chandra is the highest-resolution, most sensitive X-ray telescope ever launched, and not only continues to deliver high-impact, cutting-edge results, but has enough fuel left to continue functioning for another decade or more.X-ray astronomers have been hoping for a new, superior telescope for decades to take us beyond the limitations of Chandra, So why would the President of the United States recommend that NASA “sunset” our current flagship X-ray telescope?
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S9Ohio's Circleville ditched the grid system. Then it got squared.  When you’re “squaring the circle,” you’re attempting the impossible. Yet in the mid-19th century, that’s just what the good citizens of Circleville, Ohio, did: They straightened out the circular grid on which their city had been laid out a few decades earlier.So why didn’t they change its name to Squareville? Perhaps because, similar to its curious origins, strange things keep happening in and to this small town 25 miles south of Columbus.
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S10Moving trees north to save the forests  On a brisk September morning, Brian Palik’s footfalls land quietly on a path in flickering light, beneath a red pine canopy in Minnesota’s iconic Northwoods. A mature red pine, also called Norway pine, is a tall, straight overstory tree that thrives in cold winters and cool summers. It’s the official Minnesota state tree and a valued target of its timber industry.But red pine’s days of dominance here could fade. In coming decades, climate change will make red pine and other Northwoods trees increasingly vulnerable to destructive combinations of longer, warmer summers and less extremely cold winters, as well as droughts, windstorms, wildfires and insect infestations. Climate change is altering ecological conditions in cold regions faster than trees can adapt or migrate.
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S11Less Than Half of Employees Are Happy With Their Career Development  There are a few reasons why, according to the report. Employees now need new skills to keep up with technological advancements, but they also have higher expectations about how quickly they can advance. Indeed, 55 percent of employees said they expected to be promoted within two years, when only 40 percent actually were.  Keyia Burton -- a senior principal, advisory, in the Gartner HR practice -- said that this "mismatch between what organizations can feasibly provide and what employees expect" can cause organizations to fail to meet employee expectations. Â
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S12GOP State Attorneys Resist Biden's Proposed Diversity Rules for Apprenticeship Programs  A Biden administration plan to promote diversity and equity in workplace apprenticeship programs is facing pushback from Republican attorneys general in two dozen states who assert it amounts to race-based discrimination.The U.S. Department of Labor contends its proposed rewrite of the National Apprenticeship System rules--the first since 2008--would modernize and diversify on-the-job-training programs while improving their quality and protecting new workers.
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S13Nearly 300 Small Banks Cited as Worrying  The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in 2023 and the threats that created to the stability of the wider U.S. financial sector are now year-old headlines, but the looming debt crisis in commercial real estate remains a serious issue for the banks that finance the sector. The underlying debt bubble in commercial real estate has hundreds of local and regional banks on edge, and those worries may wind up depriving their small business customers essential growth capital.A new report from Klaros Group, a California boutique investment advisor, says the income-depleting effects of high interest rates and overexposure to potential defaults from commercial real estate (CRE) borrowers shows the breadth of the crisis.
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S14IRS Chief Zeroes in on Wealthy Tax Cheats  IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel has a message for high-wealth tax cheats who are wrongly deducting private jet travel and otherwise shorting the government on their taxes: Pay your fair share so "others aren't shouldering the burden of funding our government."Werfel, who will hit the one-year mark at the helm of the IRS in April, said in a wide-ranging interview with The Associated Press that the agency will expand its pursuit of high-wealth tax dodgers with new initiatives in the coming months and is using tools like artificial intelligence to ferret out abuses and taking the fight to sophisticated scammers.
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S153 Ways to Make Yourself Irreplaceable in the Age of AI  Artificial intelligence platforms like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's Gemini are transforming technology and reshaping entire industries. Goldman Sachs predicts that generative AI will drive 7 percent growth in GDP in the coming decade through new innovations and efficiency gains. Businesses are racing to harness AI's potential, reminiscent of how the internet, mobile, and cloud computing revolutionized the way we live and work.This acceleration brings excitement and a tinge of existential dread to the corporate world. This is especially true among those facing job insecurity in the face of layoffs and "efficiencies." Amidst predictions of AI replacing 85 million jobs by 2025 and taking over 52 percent of jobs globally, there are widespread implications for knowledge workers, including writers, marketers, salespeople, programmers, engineers, and more.
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S16The SBA Inks a 'First of Its Kind' Voter Registration Agreement With Michigan. An Election Clue?  SBA administrator Isabel Guzman on Tuesday announced that the agency tasked with serving America's small businesses had struck an agreement with the Michigan Department of State to boost the state's voter registration. The agreement, which will run through January 2036, marks a first for the SBA in providing voting resources to small-business owners."[T]he SBA will help connect Michiganders to vital voter registration information from the State of Michigan so that more small-business owners can exercise their right to vote," Guzman said in a statement. "Small businesses are busy working on and in their businesses, and by meeting them where they are -- on our website and at our small business outreach events -- we can help facilitate voter registration and civic engagement so their voices are heard."
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S17Elon Musk Touts Nvidia Dominance and Predicts a Giant Leap in AI Power  While speaking via FaceTime at the Abundance360 Summit, a gathering in Rancho Palos Verdes, California organized by futurist Peter Diamandis, also the founder of XPrize Foundation and Singularity University, Musk said that "you have to give credit to Jensen and the Nvidia team for kind of seeing this coming," referring to Huang's decades-long effort to position Nvidia at the forefront of artificial intelligence. "They're making what is currently the best AI hardware out there," he added. During his conversation with Diamandis, Musk noted that Nvidia's chips are largely responsible for the massive increases in AI computing power over the past year or so, and asserted that the amount of computational power dedicated solely to AI is increasing by a factor of 10 every six months. Musk also predicted that over the next few years, AI compute will increase by an annual factor of 100, as data centers that have traditionally focused on more conventional compute services shift to AI. An AI model's "intelligence" is directly correlated to the amount of compute power used to train it, which is why companies like OpenAI or Musk's xAI are so bullish on Nvidia's tech; they need it to create significantly smarter models and get closer to achieving AGI, a hypothetical form of AI that's as smart or smarter than the average person. "It's certainly a good time to be Nvidia," Musk said, "obviously."Â
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S18Want to Raise More Successful (and Happier) Kids? Harvard Research Says Give Them More Chores  For many entrepreneurs, feeling you're succeeding as a parent -- that you're helping your children grow up to be independent, happy, fulfilled, and successful -- is key to feeling your work-life balance is healthy.Turns out there is. As part of the 85-years (and counting) multigenerational Harvard study, researchers evaluated the backgrounds of over 700 "high achievers" and found a strong connection between doing household chores and later professional success.
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S19Boeing Caps 737 Output at 38 Aircraft Per Month, Burns Added Cash  Boeing's MAX safety crisis is causing it to burn more cash than expected, its finance chief said on Wednesday, meaning the U.S. planemaker will need more time to hit a key financial target for coming years. Â The company is trying to get control of safety issues following a Jan. 5 mid-flight panel blowout on a 737 MAX 9 aircraft that has placed it under the watchful eye of U.S. regulators - and frustrated airlines already struggling with delivery delays from both Boeing and its rival Airbus.
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S20Research: How Women Can Build High-Status Networks Despite the potential career benefits of building high-status networks, research has long shown that women face greater obstacles in establishing these networks compared to men. The authors’ research, published in the Academy of Management Journal, not only underscores what we know about the unique challenges women face in building high-status networks; it also offers a strategic roadmap for overcoming these challenges. By understanding and leveraging the power of shared social connections, women as individuals can navigate around systemic biases and forge valuable professional ties that propel their careers forward. For organizations committed to gender equality, their study provides a clear directive: Invest in building network sponsor programs that recognize and use the distinct pathways through which women can achieve high-status connections.
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S21When You Make the Leap to Manager  Brooks is an expert in organizational behavior and the psychology of communication. She takes questions from listeners who are struggling as first-time bosses, and talks through what to do when your direct reports are older than you, how to be a likable leader, and what to say if you’re not ready to be in charge.
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