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� � � � � � How To Spot A Toxic Workplace Before You Accept A Job - Forbes    A few years ago a member of my team got her dream job. After years of volunteering for a large non-profit organization she was offered a full-time job. She believed deeply in the mission and was over the moon. But two weeks after she started, she quit. Despite the seduction of a powerful mission, the organization’s culture was toxic. Toxic culture is the number one reason people quit. In fact, it drove the Great Resignation in 2022. Culture is also the biggest reason people stay–in one global poll, 77% of job seekers said it’s even more important than pay and benefits. The problem is, it’s really hard to spot a toxic culture before you’re in it– leading to expensive, miserable career mistakes. You certainly can’t rely on the “culture” a company markets. And job interviews are like first dates – of course they’re going to put their best foot forward. Here are five red flags you can look for to avoid making a toxic leap. Continued here � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium Inside the LSD Museum That the DEA Somehow Hasn't Torn to the Ground - WIRED    There’s a guy in San Francisco who has more than 33,000 sheets of LSD in his house. Just how many more isn't clear, because no one's done an inventory since the feds last tried to bust him 13 years ago. What is clear is that because each sheet, or "blotter," can be perforated into hundreds of little acid-imbued tabs, this guy, Mark McCloud, has amassed several million hits of LSD over the years. He doesn't collect these tabs to sell them. He collects these SIM-card-sized artifacts because, weirdly enough, they’re tiny works of art. McCloud calls his house the Institute of Illegal Images. Scan the Institute's collection---a fraction of which is published on its website, Blotter Barn---and you’ll find a wide-ranging spectrum of art that McCloud’s been collecting since the 1970s. There’s some predictable new age iconography (like dolphins and zodiac caricatures) and some equally predictable goofiness (think pre-Emoji smiley faces and Mickey Mouse in his sorcerer's apprentice garb). These icons often appear hundreds of times on a single blotter, so when the sheet is perforated into individual hits, each tab features the same little decal---a calling card for the dealer who sold it. There’s also some truly exquisite artwork in McCloud’s collection. These pieces of paper were vehicles for going on psychotropic trips, making them about as ephemeral as art can get, but blotter artists still took great care in crafting the images. “When I first noticed the blotter prints, I said, ‘Boy, this is fascinating, and maybe I should try to collect some of these so our children know what happened to us,'” McCloud says. Continued here � � � � � � How to Help Your Team Find Their Higher Purpose - Harvard Business Review    When employees are disengaged and underperforming, the reaction of many managers is to try new incentives and ratchet up oversight and control. Yet often nothing improves. Why? Because the assumption behind such conventional approaches is that work is fundamentally contractual and that employees are self-interested agents who will seek to minimize personal effort. And that assumption becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: Employees do just what is needed to earn a reward or meet a standard, and nothing more. But there is another way: Rally the organization behind an authentic higher purpose—an aspirational mission that explains how employees are making a difference and gives them a sense of meaning. If you do that, they will try new things, move into deep learning, and make surprising contributions. The workforce will become energized and committed, and performance will climb. In this article, Quinn and Thakor describe how organizations like DTE Energy, KPMG, and Sandler O’Neill have dramatically increased employee engagement after discovering their higher purposes. The authors outline eight steps other companies can follow to break free of the conventional thinking about worker motivation, help a higher purpose permeate decisions throughout the company, and set off a positive chain of events. Continued here � � � � � � The American Climate Corps Wants You - Scientific American    Biden’s new program is expected to hire 20,000 people in its first year for renewable energy projects and ecological restoration The United States is about to embark on an experiment inspired by one of the New Deal’s most popular programs. On Wednesday, the Biden administration authorized the creation of the American Climate Corps through an executive order. The program would hire 20,000 young people in its first year, putting them to work installing wind and solar projects, making homes more energy-efficient, and restoring ecosystems like coastal wetlands to protect towns from flooding. The idea has been in the works for years. It was first announced in President Joe Biden’s early days in the White House in January 2021, tucked into a single paragraph in an executive order on tackling the climate crisis. At the time, it was called the Civilian Climate Corps — a reference to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps, launched in 1933 to help the country survive the Great Depression, which was responsible for building hundreds of parks, including Great Smoky Mountains National Park, as well as many hiking trails and lodges you can find across the country today. Early versions of Biden’s trademark climate law that passed last year, the Inflation Reduction Act, included money for reviving the CCC. But that funding got cut during negotiations last summer with Senator Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia, and the program was assumed dead.  Continued here

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