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Can Psychedelics Help CEOs Boost Their Leadership Skills?
 A growing cottage industry is dedicated to the theory that mind-altering drugs can improve business leadership.
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Editor's Note: Robin Carhart-Harris, a neuroscientist studying the effect of psychedelics, said that it was possible the drugs could help leaders in the workplace. Mr. Carhart-Harris, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, examines people's brains on drugs. His brain scans show that psychedelics increase entropy. Where the brain usually tries to helpfully compress information, these drugs have the opposite effect, which he argues could shake loose new thinking on the knotty challenges of leadership.
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WorkWorkIs This the Year Everyone Quits Social Media? 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 WIRED In a post-Twitter world, text-based social media apps have taken a new shape.
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WorkWorkWhat I Learned From a Reclusive Taliban Commander The Taliban commander wore sunglasses and a heavy wool coat, as if he might leave at any moment. Between us, on a plastic-covered table doused in fluorescent light, sat an untouched mountain of lamb and rice.
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WorkThat Biden Stimulus Joke Was Inadvertently Quite Revealing This is Totally Normal Quote of the Day, a feature highlighting a statement from the news that exemplifies just how extremely normal everything has become. The above quote from Joe Biden's speech at the Brookings Institution this week was met with laughter. Work
WorkParkinson's Law: It's Real, So Use It Parkinson's Law states that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." Although it is counter-intuitive, you will find that through practice and experience, there is a lot of truth to this. Work
WorkWorkTech predictions for 2025 and beyond We have entered an era of unprecedented societal challenges and rapid technological advancements. Harnessing technology for good has become both an ethical imperative and a profitable endeavor. WorkWorkWorkWorkWorkWorkThe World's 50 Most Valuable Sports Teams 2024 For the ninth straight year, the Dallas Cowboys are the world's most valuable sports team, worth an estimated $10.1 billion--the first to cross the 11-figure threshold and $1.3 billion beyond their closest competition. WorkWorkWorkWorkWhen AI becomes a tool to fight insurance denials Mario Aguilar covers technology in health care, including artificial intelligence, virtual reality, wearable devices, telehealth, and digital therapeutics. His stories explore how tech is changing the practice of health care and the business and policy challenges to realizing tech’s promise. He’s also the co-author of the free, twice weekly STAT Health Tech newsletter. WorkWorkWorkTrump says Elon Musk will put America before Tesla or SpaceX The valuation of Musk’s companies has risen since the election, with Tesla stock soaring 69% and reaching new all-time highs. SpaceX and xAI have also been valued at new highs of $350 billion and $50 billion, giving Musk a net worth of almost $450 billion. WorkBanks could soon have overdraft fees capped at $5 “The CFPB’s rule jeopardizes access to overdraft services when hardworking Americans face unexpected expenses, leaving them with worse alternatives like payday loans and pawnshops,” said CEO Lindsey Johnson in a statement. “The CFPB also disregards the bank-led innovations that have enhanced consumer benefits and delivered significant savings within the overdraft ecosystem over the past decade.” WorkEurope tries to boost economy as Trump presidency looms There is little sign that major European governments have the political capital to make these reforms. And all this occurs before the arrival of a US president who wants to act against jurisdictions which he argues "rip off" the US, including the European Union. WorkTrump rings bell on record stock market - but will it last? At the stock exchange on Thursday, Trump kept his comments focused on other parts of his agenda more palatable to markets: his promises to lower taxes from 21% to 15% for businesses manufacturing in America, cut regulation and speed up government approvals. WorkF.T.C. Sues Southern Glazer's for Illegal Pricing “When local businesses get squeezed because of unfair pricing practices that favor large chains, Americans see fewer choices and pay higher prices — and communities suffer,” F.T.C. chair Lina Khan said in a statement announcing the lawsuit. WorkWorkECB Cuts Interest Rates as the Economy Weakens Substantial progress has been made reining in inflation in recent years after it peaked above 10 percent in late 2022, but other risks are accumulating. Europe faces the prospect of higher tariffs on its goods exported to the United States imposed during the second term of President-elect Donald J. Trump. And political turmoil in Germany and France, the bloc’s two largest economies, is adding to the uncertainty. WorkWorkWorkWorkHow America Turned Allies into Enemies in Afghanistan Clutching the empty arm of his jacket, the commander spins him around like a marionette. The man’s sheared limb and ragged scars tell only half the story: His family was killed next to him, massacred as they fled the Taliban. WorkBiden Commuted the Sentences of 1,500 Americans, a One-Day Record Some Democrats have called on Biden to reduce the sentences of all 40 people on death row to life without parole because Donald Trump supports the death penalty. Members of Biden’s staff have been debating whether he should issue blanket pardons for a number of Trump’s perceived enemies to protect them from retribution. WorkWorkWorkWorkReddit is removing links to Luigi Mangione's manifesto “I’m sure Reddit’s admins find themselves far more aligned with the class of people like Brian Johnson (sic) than they do with the rest of us," one commenter wrote in response to moderator clemthearcher’s post in r/popculturechat, "so the only violence they care to moderate is that against Brian Johnson (sic) - not misogyny, racism, homophobia, or the rampant greed of our healthcare industry which has killed or caused the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people.” WorkACLU highlights the rise of AI-generated police reports -- what could go wrong? The third point was around transparency, as the public needs to understand exactly how it works based on analysis by independent experts, according to the ACLU. Defendants in criminal cases also need to be able to interrogate the evidence, "yet much of the operation of these systems remains mysterious." Finally, the group noted that the use of AI transcriptions might remove accountability around the use of discretionary power. "For these reasons, the ACLU does not believe police departments should allow officers to use AI to generate draft police reports," it said. WorkWorkWorkSuspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO killing may not have been a client, say police Mangione is an Ivy League graduate from a prominent Maryland real estate family. On Wednesday, police said investigators are looking into an accident that injured Mangione’s back and sent him to an emergency room in July 2023. They are also looking at his writings about the injury and his criticism of corporate America and the US healthcare system. |
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