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Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)
 After working hard for long hours and toughing it out, we at least expect success. However, more often than not, at the end of the day we are exhausted and still have a long list of tasks to complete. Why does this happen? According to the authors, working adults have a fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to be resilient. Yes, resilience involves working hard, but it also requires one to stop, recover, and then begin the hard work again. Recovery is key to maintaining good health, but also preventing lost productivity. To build resilience, you need to be willing to stop. This means spending some time away from your phone, eating lunch away from your desk, and actually using your vacation time.
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WorkYour dog's nose knows if you're feeling stressed outAcute stress changes the compounds found in human sweat and breath, research has shown. For the new experiment, four dogs were presented with sweat and breath samples collected from human volunteers — before and after the people engaged in a difficult math exercise. WorkVigilante Justice Reigns in Post-Hasina BangladeshStudent protesters rough up a supporter of the ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League party suspecting him of paying respect to her father Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on his death anniversary outside his residence in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, August 15, 2024.
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WorkWorkIs Your Organizational Transformation Veering Off Course? - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)Nearly all transformation efforts face significant challenges that can derail the whole program. These can range from exogenous shocks, such as inflation, supply-chain disruption, or political events; operating-model issues, such as the need to change technology, governance, or ways of working; or human dynamics, such as employee confidence in or ownership of the change. How can leaders identify these turning points — and get things back on track? New research, based on surveys of more than 1,600 leaders and employees involved in transformations, suggests that changes in a team’s emotional energy — their collective mood, vibe, and intensity of emotions — often signals that there’s an issue. Organizations that successfully navigate these turning points look for shifts in the team’s emotional energy, dig into the underlying issues at play, and quickly take action to create the conditions where teams can thrive.
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WorkWork WorkAt Least 10 Killed as Israeli Military Steps Up West Bank RaidsThe operation followed months of escalating Israeli raids in the occupied territory, where nearly three million Palestinians live under Israeli military rule. More than 600 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since the Oct. 7 Hamas-led assault on Israel, according to the United Nations, in violence involving both the Israeli military and extremist Jewish settlers. Israel has also arrested thousands of Palestinians suspected of involvement in armed groups. WorkFor Years, He Has Saved Lives in Rural America. Who Will Take His Place?VanCoughnett and the other medical workers climbed into the ambulance, drove for a minute and parked in front of a tattered gray house that stands on a crab-grass hill. It was 3 p.m. on a hot Sunday in July, and VanCoughnett’s face turned red the moment he left the air-conditioned ambulance. WorkIsrael Began a Major Military Operation in the West BankFor Israel, the operations represent a third front in conflicts that now extend from Egypt’s border with the Gaza Strip to southern Lebanon. They also came after American, Israeli and Iranian officials said that Iran is secretly smuggling weapons to the West Bank in an effort to foment unrest. WorkLLMs have a strong bias against use of African American English CNMN Collection WIRED Media Group © 2024 Condé Nast. All rights reserved. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated 1/1/20) and Privacy Policy and Ars Technica Addendum. Ars may earn compensation on sales from links on this site. Read our affiliate link policy.Your California Privacy Rights | Do Not Sell My Personal Information 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 WorkYelp files antitrust lawsuit against GoogleWhile this lawsuit centers on the US, Yelp has also been sounding off about Google\'s practices overseas. The European Digital Markets Act was meant to loosen some of the company\'s stranglehold over search results with rules to prevent massive tech businesses from favoring their own services. But Yelp argued that Google\'s attempt at DMA compliance actually made users less likely to leave the Google ecosystem. WorkWorkNvidia rides big tech's AI investment to beat Wall Street's sky-high expectationsAs with Microsoft in the early 2000s, regulators are hovering over Nvidia. Earlier this month, the US Department of Justice launched an antitrust investigation into the tech giant. Rival chipmakers have alleged the company has abused its market dominance to corner the market and coerce its customers into continuing to purchase its products. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkFighting for Beauty Behind Prison Walls - The Cut (No paywall)For some people, when it comes to how the criminal legal system consistently denies agency or visibility behind bars, denying access to beauty products for the 191,000 women currently incarcerated in the United States falls to the end of the list. Items like mineral-powder foundation or eyeshadow from brands like CoverGirl and L’Oréal can be found in certain women’s prisons for prices averaging anywhere from $1.50 to $16, but for incarcerated women, many of whom are their families’ primary caretakers and work for exploitative wages inside, there isn’t much money left over after making costly phone calls or purchasing commissary food to replace inadequate nutrition options. And then there are the facility-wide makeup bans, which are increasing as of late — within the Department of Corrections’ rules and regulations, even the most routine commodities can be construed as a threat. Alongside shoulder-length hair mandates, limited menstrual-hygiene products, and uniforms exclusively offered in men’s sizes, restricting access to makeup is a means of control, one that also emphasizes how prisons are historically designed for men. WorkThe middle class's worst retirement fear - Business Insider (No paywall)On Wednesday, the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies released its 2024 retirement outlook for the middle class. It delved into the financial concerns and retirement preparations for those with annual household incomes of $50,000 to $199,999 using a sample of just over 10,000 people — about 5,000 of whom fell into the middle-class category. WorkThe Death of School 10 - The New Yorker (No paywall)In the nineteen-nineties, when Liberia descended into civil war, the Kpor family fled to Ivory Coast. A few years later, in 1999, they were approved for resettlement in the United States, and ended up in Rochester, New York. Janice Kpor, who was eleven at the time, jokingly wonders whether her elders were under the impression that they were moving to New York City. What she remembers most about their arrival is the trees: it was May, yet many were only just starting to bud. “It was, like, ‘Where are we?’ ” she said. “It was completely different.” WorkResilient economy 'feels very untrue' to many AmericansChristine Maddy stretches her buck by shopping at discount stores, forgoing vacations and scrimping whenever possible to keep her family afloat. To the mother of five in rural Minnesota, that penny-pinching plan also means raising chickens, geese and ducks to offset the high cost of food. WorkWorkTexas Removed 1 Million From Voter Rolls. But Most Had Moved or Died.Mr. Abbott’s announcement followed the raids last week by the office of the attorney general, Ken Paxton, of members of the League of United Latin American Citizens, one of the nation’s oldest Latino civil rights organizations, along with a variety of Democratic candidates and consultants.It was accompanied by Mr. Paxton’s announcement that he was looking into registration efforts by groups in urban areas across the state as potential violations of law. WorkTrump Sees a World on Fire, and Says He Knows Who's to BlameIn Mr. Biden’s case, that world was shaped, most immediately, by Mr. Trump himself — who struck the accord with the Taliban that governed the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, pulled out of the nuclear deal with Iran, did little to punish President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia for his takeover of Crimea and largely ignored the Palestinians during his years in office. Work5 More People Die From Listeria Linked to Boar's Head Meats, C.D.C. SaysEvery year, about 1,600 people in the United States develop serious listeria infections, according to the C.D.C. The bacteria are naturally found in soil and can contaminate foods such as dairy products, leafy greens and fruits. Most people who ingest the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes don’t get sick, but certain high-risk individuals, including pregnant women and people who are over 65 or immunocompromised, can become seriously ill. WorkWorkHouse G.O.P. Releases Jan. 6 Videos of Pelosi, Seeking to Shift Blame From TrumpIn the recordings, Ms. Pelosi rails against Mr. Trump and his role in firing up his supporters who stormed the Capitol, but also repeatedly suggests that she and her staff should have pushed the Capitol Police harder to make sure they were better prepared as Mr. Trump summoned thousands of his supporters to Washington to protest the transfer of power from the Trump administration to the Biden administration. WorkElon Musk, Eyeing Edge for Trump, Hires Republican Political AdviserPart of Mr. Young’s job will be to serve as Mr. Musk’s eyes and ears at a super PAC that Mr. Musk started but has undergone some turbulence. America PAC is focused on Republican voter turnout, but the group effectively shelved its entire field operation after just a few weeks, following the super PAC’s hiring of a powerful Republican consulting firm. The group’s new leadership has since restarted its field program. WorkTrump Makes Incendiary Claim About His Secret Service ProtectionMr. Trump on Tuesday also echoed an accusation that some of his allies — including Senator JD Vance of Ohio, now his running mate — made right after the assassination attempt: that Democrats’ criticism of him, and descriptions of him as a threat to democracy, might have incited the gunman. Investigators have not confirmed the gunman’s motive. WorkOpinion | Is Europe a Model for America? Or a Warning?The United States abounds with tech successes like Apple, Google and Meta, but there isn’t a single European company on one recent list of the world’s top 10 tech companies by market capitalization. One list of “unicorns” — start-ups worth more than $1 billion — shows that Africa’s smallest country, the Seychelles, has as many such firms (two) as Greece and almost as many as Italy or Belgium (three). WorkUnited Airlines flight attendants say they're ready to go on strike“Under the Railway Labor Act, the [National Mediation Board] will keep the parties bargaining as long as they see the potential for a deal,” the American flight attendants’ union explained in one update for members. “That means if the company is putting tens or hundreds of millions more into the agreement, the NMB will keep the pressure on both parties to move forward to reach a deal. While we do not agree with how long or difficult it is to exercise our right to strike, when there is movement, the NMB will require more bargaining.” WorkWorkWorkRussia Bars Numerous U.S. Journalists From the CountryThe list named 14 Wall Street Journal employees, including the editor in chief, Emma Tucker. It also listed five New York Times journalists and four Washington Post journalists, as well as a political cartoonist from The Guardian based in London. 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