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CEO Picks - The most popular editorials that have stood the test of time! S15 Are You Trying to Retain the Right Employees? As an extraordinary wave of resignations sweeps the business world, companies are struggling to reassessing their talent-retention strategies. The authors' research suggests that firms should take a targeted approach and focus on employees who would not just stay but be enthusiastic about doing so. This article offers a way to identify these 'enthusiastic stayers' and recommends ways to keep them. Continued here S6 How the 3-3-1 Rule Can Help You Fall Asleep Quickly and Reduce Anxiety | Inc.com When it's time for me to get ready for bed, I find a quiet place for a quick "oil check," as I like to call it. I do some deep breathing to start, just to calm my heartbeat (inhale four seconds, exhale four seconds). Then, I note three things I accomplished that day and how they positively impacted others. I close with more breathing, and then I get ready for bed. Continued here � � S1 Agility Hacks In the past 20 years, the agile approach to improving products, services, and processes has swept the business world. Rooted in software development, agile has spread to many other functions, and some companies have turned much of their organization, including the C-suite, into agile teams. Continued here S3 Here's Why You Keep Being Told to Exercise if You Have Lower Back Pain After many months in lockdown, a lot of us are finding that we're experiencing back pain that we hadn't been bothered by before. There could be many reasons for this, including increased stress during the pandemic, moving less and spending more time sat in one position. Continued here You Might Like � � � S4 'Let them be kids!' Is 'free-range' parenting the key to healthier, happier children? | Parents and parenting | The Guardian She describes herself as having been a "fairly cautious" parent before the pandemic, but Shannon now worries about her children's safety more than ever. "The pandemic has made me more paranoid and fearful of other people," she says. She has two sons, aged seven and four, and she's anxious about them falling ill "because they are too young to get vaccinated". When her elder son's school reopened last year, she kept him at home. "We don't go inside other people's houses, and, if we have play dates, we do them outside," she says. As a hospital chaplain in Indiana, Shannon has seen people dying of Covid, so her fear is understandable. Continued here S7 India's no-code boom is ushering in a new wave of entrepreneurs — Quartz India Fresh from her trauma, she put her knowledge of no-code tools to create Hyd COVID Resources to help others in the city. It enlisted essential resources such as hospital beds, oxygen cylinders, plasma, medicines, meal services, quarantine services, and so on, in Hyderabad. Continued here � S10 Why Your Brain Dwells on Unfinished Tasks A few months ago, a friend recommended I watch Crash Landing on You (CLOY) - a South Korean drama that has been praised around the world. I'm not a huge fan of soaps. They drag too long, force you to invest a ton of time (and emotion), and I, for one, can't wait to find out what the end is going to be. I much prefer curling up with your traditional two-hour movie or an evening of truth with an observational documentary. Continued here S13 Is It More Important to Run Faster or Run Longer? Scientists debate the physiological benefits of ramping up your training intensity or your training volume Continued here You Might Like � � � S14 How to Spot a Bad Boss During an Interview One of the greatest predictors of your happiness at work is your relationship with your manager. So when you're considering a new job, it's important to know how you'll get along with your new boss. This can be hard to assess in an interview when you're working hard to demonstrate why she should hire you. But it's important to evaluate her as well. What sorts of questions should you ask to understand her management style? Should you try to talk with other people she manages? Are there red flags you should watch out for? Continued here S19 What Weird Dreams Are For For many of us over the last year and more, our waking experience has, you might say, lost a bit of its variety. We spend more time with the same people, in our homes, and go to fewer places. Our stimuli these days, in other words, aren't very stimulating. Too much day-to-day routine, too much familiarity, too much predictability. At the same time, our dreams have gotten more bizarre. More transformations, more unrealistic narratives. As a cognitive scientist who studies dreaming and the imagination, this intrigued me. Why might this be? Could the strangeness serve some purpose? Continued here � S20 It's Time to Stop Talking About 'Generations' | The New Yorker The discovery that you can make money marketing merchandise to teen-agers dates from the early nineteen-forties, which is also when the term 'youth culture' first appeared in print. There was a reason that those things happened when they did: high school. Back in 1910, most young people worked; only fourteen per cent of fourteen- to seventeen-year-olds were still in school. In 1940, though, that proportion was seventy-three per cent. A social space had opened up between dependency and adulthood, and a new demographic was born: 'youth.' Continued here TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 10,00,000 Industry Executives About Us  |  Advertise Privacy Policy    Unsubscribe You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs. Our mailing address is GF 25/39, West Patel Nagar, New Delhi 110008, India