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New Research on Why Teams Overwork-and What Leaders Can Do About It - Harvard Business Review (No paywall)
 Why do so many high-performing professionals keep working at a punishing pace, even when it damages their health, relationships, and personal well-being? And why do organizational attempts to curb these extreme work hours—no-email-after-hours policies, mental health initiatives, or wellness seminars—so often fail?
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WorkWorkWorkU.S. And EU Reach Trade Deal-Setting Tariffs at 15% - Forbes (No paywall) The U.S. has agreed to a trade deal with the European Union, President Donald Trump and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced Sunday afternoon, agreeing to a 15% tariff rate on most exports, including European cars, from EU countriesjust days before the Aug. 1 deadline set for Trumps reciprocal tariffs. Work WorkWorkWorkHow to transfer your Ticketmaster tickets to someone else Before you go through with your transfer, it's important to note that whoever you're sending the ticket to needs to have a Ticketmaster account. And, some venues or artists will opt out of the ability to transfer tickets, so it may not always be an option. Some users also reported that Ticketmaster's transfer option isn't available until a few days before the event, so you may have to plan accordingly. Work 
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WorkParamount-Skydance Merger Gets the OK From the FCC - Vulture (No paywall) Go tell it from the (Paramount) mountain: Donald Trumps Federal Communications Commission has (finally) given its blessing to the merger of Paramount Global and Skydance Media, clearing the way for the roughly $8 billion deal to close more than one year after it was announced. No word on a new name, but the company will begin trading on NASDAQ as PSKY (as opposed to the current name PARA), which hints that the new entity could be called Paramount Skydance. If everything continues as expected, the merger will officially be consummated on August 7, at which point Skydances David Ellison, son of Oracle founder and hardcore Trump supporter Larry Ellison (estimated net worth: nearly $300 billion as of this writing, up from a reported$175 billion three months ago), will take command of the reshaped legacy media company. Also expected to have a top management role: Jeff Shell, the former NBCUniversal CEO fired in 2023 for inappropriate conduct with a female employee, including allegations of sexual harassment, as the Comcast-owned company put it at the time. WorkWorkWork 
WorkWorkA Food Reckoning Is Coming - The Atlantic (No paywall) Imagine that humanity quit fossil fuels. Think of our entire Ozymandian blob of a global economy running on clean energy instead of ancient heat-trapping hydrocarbonsmore than 1 billion vehicles, 2 billion homes, every school, mall, skyscraper, data center, airport, seaport, factory, and cryptocurrency on Earth. No more gas stoves, gas stations, or gas-fired power plants. No more petrochemicals, petrostates, or petroleum jelly. WorkWork 
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WorkWorkWorkWorkThe Case for Lunch - The New Yorker (No paywall) In 1962, Roxane Debuisson, a Parisian housewife in her thirties, was walking down the Rue de Birague, in the Marais, when one of a pair of gilded iron ballsa traditional emblem of barbersdetached from its bracket and almost conked her on the head. The salons proprietor, it turned out, planned to replace them with a neon sign. This was les trente glorieuses, the postwar years in which French society raced toward modernity, leaving the past in the dust of massive state-sponsored construction projects. Debuisson took the remaining orb home, thereby beginning an exceptional collection of Paris ephemerapreviously commonplace objects that were disappearing before her eyes. 
WorkHow the Busiest People Find Joy - Harvard Business Review (No paywall) Research suggests that to have a satisfying life, you need to regularly feel three things: achievement (recognition or a sense of accomplishment), meaningfulness (a connection to something bigger than yourself), and joy (happiness or positive emotion) in the moment. How well are you doing on each of those fronts? WorkWorkWork WorkWorkWorkWork 
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WorkWorkInvestors are flocking to the stock market's discount rack - WSJ (No paywall) As recently as April, Chase Goodman plowed his extra savings into funds linked to stock-market indexes dominated by the worlds biggest technology companies. Lately though, the Detroit-based 29-year-old analyst at an auto company is reading corporate filings and tracking where the shares of companies trade relative to their book value. |
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