The Best Managers Are "Connectors"

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The Best Managers Are "Connectors"     Some managers are like teachers, sharing their skills and experience with their teams. Others are more like cheerleaders who encourage their direct reports to learn on their own. But Sari Wilde explains that the best managers are “connectors” who facilitate peer-to-peer coaching to help their people learn and grow. Continued here

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The Lesson for Founders in the PGA Tour's Merger With LIV Golf? Always Take the High Road     It also proves that for leaders, taking an extremely strong stand is unforgettable--and sometimes not in a good way. Continued here

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Get the Most Out of Your iPad With These Accessories     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 WIREDOne of the best parts of owning an iPad is that you're never short on accessories. There's a wealth of cases, cables, adapters, styli, keyboards, and stands out there to trick out your slate. But what should you buy? I've spent years filling a corner of my tiny New York apartment with boxes of gear to find the best iPad accessories. Whether you already own an iPad or recently picked one up after perusing our Best iPad guide, there's something here for you. Continued here

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She Was Great at Networking. Here's How She Turned It Into a Successful Business     Luminary's Cate Luzio left her banking career to start a women-centered professional community. To fund it, she drew on her previous experience. Continued here

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Quitting Can Sometimes Be a Strategic Success     HANNAH BATES: Welcome to HBR On Strategy, case studies and conversations with the world’s top business and management experts, hand-selected to help you unlock new ways of doing business. When you think of quitting, do you associate it with failure? Today, we bring you a conversation about strategic decision-making with Annie Duke. She’s an author, consultant, and former professional poker champion — and she argues that quitting something that isn’t worthwhile is itself a success. In this episode, you’ll learn about why we often resist quitting – even when other paths would yield better results. And you’ll learn why it’s a mistake to prioritize “easy wins” when you’re embarking on a new project. This episode originally aired on HBR IdeaCast in November 2022. Here it is. Continued here

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Why We Set Unattainable Goals     Take the example of people who are always looking for a new diet. Many dieters fail to stick to a demanding nutrition plan because we underestimate the gustatory sacrifices we’ll have to make. On the surface, it seems deceptively simple — just a matter of altering our food choices. But not many of us realize how it’s actually a complete change of lifestyle. We’re not just giving up on carbs tonight, for example, we’re not going to eat them for an entire month. Continued here

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Autonomous Waymo car runs over dog in San Francisco     One of Alphabet's Waymo autonomous cars has killed a pet dog. TechCrunch spotted the public report of the incident, which says one of the Waymo Jaguar I-Pace cars ran over a dog in San Francisco while in autonomous mode with a safety driver behind the wheel. Waymo's collision report says: Continued here

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The Success of 'Diablo IV' Is a Welcome Distraction for Activision Blizzard     Activision Blizzard’s Diablo IV is a success. The game sold more copies during its prelaunch period than any other Blizzard Entertainment title before it. Players have already spent 93 million hours with the game, and counting. Even before its full release this week, critics were praising its design and story. It’s a rare positive outcome for a company that’s been mired in controversy.Since 2021, Activision Blizzard’s place in headlines has been next to allegations of harassment and news of burgeoning union efforts. The video game industry has no clear answer on how to reconcile its successful AAA games—years-long creative undertakings, made possible by teams of hundreds—with the conditions under which they are created. Players have to navigate this, too, when deciding whether or not they want to buy a title that comes from Activision Blizzard. Continued here

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For Northeast Businesses, a Hazy Smog Smacks of the Pandemic, Bringing Business Closures and Masks     Shrouded in smoke brought down from wildfires in Canada, businesses are scrambling to keep employees and customers indoors. Continued here

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My Employee Keeps Pushing for a Promotion He Won't Get     And two other tricky workplace dilemmas. Continued here

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How New CEOs Establish Legitimacy     CEOs are given the authority to lead by the rules of corporate governance. They gain additional influence and credibility by demonstrating competence. CEOs who achieve legitimacy have a higher level of trust and influence. This legitimacy will be gained by consistently demonstrating specific behaviors. Continued here

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Your Data Strategy Needs to Include Everyone     An entirely new “management paradigm” for data is needed. As used here, a “management paradigm” embodies a common language, a holistic vision of the ways data should contribute, a clearly defined organizational structure showing how data integrates across the organization, along with clear roles and responsibilities for all involved. Eventually, it needs to incorporate corporate culture, relationships with universities and vendors, policy, and anything else that advances, or holds back the effective use of data. The new paradigm employs a more pervasive and integrated approach to using data, analytics, and AI in the business. Continued here

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These Predators Had a Face like an Axe and Will Haunt Your Nightmares     Terror birds were the grizzly bears of birds, the great white sharks of the land, Jack the Ripper but with feathers. They were also truly fascinating.This is Episode Four of a four-part Fascination on really big birds. You can listen to Episode One here; Episode Two here; and Episode Three here. Continued here

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A Better Approach to Mentorship     Research shows that 71% of executives choose to mentor employees who are of their same gender or race. This disparity can be addressed if more companies prioritize “bridge mentorships,” or mentorships that intentionally connect diverse individuals to help level the playing field and provide more equal opportunities. How does bridge mentoring work? Continued here

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A changing tech landscape makes for weird birthdays online     A sign of advancing age in the 21st century is how different birthday congratulations are now from the early days of the internet.Harken back to 2007, and remember how many friends and acquaintances felt compelled to post their congratulatory greetings on your wall. Back then, many would even pay to send you animated e-cards, inserting your name and a heartfelt message manually before shooting it off over email. Continued here

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Wildfire Smoke Chokes the East Coast: Live Updates     Scientific American will be rounding up some of the most striking images and notable updates about the smoke blanketing the Northeast from wildfires raging across CanadaSmoke from wildfires raging in Canada has been pouring south into the U.S, and giving parts of the Northeast their worst air quality in decades. An apocalyptic orange haze has shrouded the Manhattan skyline, and noxious brown clouds have been clearly visible in satellite images. Scientific American will be rounding up some of the most striking visuals and notable updates in this climate-change-charged situation. Continued here

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How an Uncanny Sense of Smell Led to a Business Empire     Turning a sense into a superpower, Jo Malone shares how she scaled her fragrance brand from her kitchen table to being an international cult favorite. Continued here

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What is DEI Doing for the Formerly Incarcerated?     A 2018 estimate of unemployment among the five million formerly incarcerated people living in the U.S. found that they are “unemployed at a rate of over 27% — higher than the total U.S. unemployment rate during any historical period, including the Great Depression.”  In this article, author LeRon L. Barton poses the question: What role is the DEI sector playing in this fight? Continued here

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7 Surprising Use Cases for ChatGPT in Internal Operations     Your operational efficiencies can almost certainly be improved. Continued here

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'Boring' Is Not the Brand Insult You Think It Is     Why you should strive to make your brand as boring as vanilla ice cream. Continued here

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How Indigenous Groups Are Leading the Way on Data Privacy     Indigenous groups are developing data storage technology that gives users privacy and control. Could their work influence those fighting back against invasive apps?Even as Indigenous communities find increasingly helpful uses for digital technology, many worry that outside interests could take over their data and profit from it, much like colonial powers plundered their physical homelands. But now some Indigenous groups are reclaiming control by developing their own data protection technologies—work that demonstrates how ordinary people have the power to sidestep the tech companies and data brokers who hold and sell the most intimate details of their identities, lives and cultures. Continued here

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How A.I. Could Help Medical Professionals Spend Less Time on Admin Work and More Time on Care     Generative A.I. could relieve a big pain point in the medical industry. Continued here

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7 Ways to Make Employees Feel Respected, According to Research     Treating everyone with respect is the foundation of good leadership. Employees who feel disrespected are more likely to also feel excluded or even inferior. The authors offer seven behaviors, based on their analysis of data collected from more than 4,500 employees, that lead to a demonstration and feeling of respect. These include valuing diversity, staying in touch with individuals’ issues and concerns, building trusted, resolving conflicts, balancing results with a concern for others, encouraging open discussion, and giving honest feedback. Authentic and consistent implementation of these behaviors will help you establish a culture of respect and support. Continued here

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How Luminary's Cate Luzio Self Funded Her Business     The co-founder and CEO Luminary talks about the many ways to fund a business without taking venture capital. Continued here

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The Weirdest Particles in the Universe     They’re small, nearly imperceptible, and there are 500 trillion of them passing through you right now. Neutrinos are among nature’s most plentiful yet mysterious creations. Science writer James Riordon recently set out to list what was known versus unknown about neutrinos, and he found the second column was longer. “To me, the most interesting thing is how we know surprisingly little about them,” he says. “These are definitely here and definitely mysterious. The exciting science lies in answering these questions.”In the new book Ghost Particle: In Search of the Elusive and Mysterious Neutrino (MIT Press, 2023), Riordon and his co-author, physicist Alan Chodos, document how the surprising particles were first proposed and discovered and what scientists have figured out so far—plus everything they hope to eventually understand. Because of their many oddities, neutrinos seem like promising conduits for answering some of our biggest questions: Why is the universe made of matter and not antimatter? What is dark matter? And can anything travel faster than light? Continued here

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Ukraine: Why the dam breach is so significant     When dam engineers plan for worst-case scenarios, sabotage is usually not part of their risk assessment."Normally we don't design dams thinking about war or explosives," says Rafael Moran of the Technical University of Madrid, a professor of civil engineering who specialises in dam protection. "It's not a hypothesis for designing." Continued here

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An Ice-free Arctic Could Be Only a Decade Away     A new study finds that Arctic sea ice could disappear in the summers as early as the 2030s, a decade earlier than previously thoughtCLIMATEWIRE | The Arctic could see ice-free summers as early as the 2030s, scientists say. That’s as much as a decade earlier than previous studies have suggested. Continued here

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How to Use the Air Quality Index     Wildfire smoke from Canada is causing poor air quality along the East Coast. Here’s what those air quality alerts meanSmoke from wildfires in eastern Canada is flowing across the U.S. East Coast, triggering air quality alerts in the “hazardous” category in some areas. But what do those air quality alerts mean? Continued here

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How Long Will Wildfire Smoke Last, and Where Will It Spread?     Smoke from record-setting wildfires in Canada has blanketed parts of the eastern U.S., but shifting summer weather patterns should bring reliefAn eerie, orange-lit haze has provided an unusual backdrop to the iconic Manhattan skyline as one of the region’s worst air pollution events in decades descended on New York City, courtesy of smoke pouring southward from wildfires raging across Canada. It is yet another apocalyptic scene from our climate-changed world. Continued here

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What languages dominate the internet?     It’s estimated that around 63% of living humans now have access to the internet, which would put the number of digitally connected people at just over 5 billion in sum. Those people come from all across the planet, and potentially speak thousands of different languages. If you search, you can find hundreds of languages online, from Urdu to Catalan.But some languages are harder to find than others. Rest of World turned to W3Techs, a web-scanning firm based in Austria, to count all of the publicly accessible web addresses on the internet to get hard numbers on the discrepancy. Our data shows that a little more than half the sites on the web use English as their primary language. That’s a lot more than one might expect, given that native English speakers only make up just under 5% of the global population. Meanwhile, Chinese and Hindi are the second and third most-spoken languages in the world, but the same scan found they account for just 1.4% and 0.07% of domains, respectively.  Continued here