Volcanoes are erupting in The Philippines, but on-fire Australia received some welcome rain. The Iran war cries have been called off and The Donald’s military powers are about to be hamstrung by the Senate. Meanwhile, his impeachment trial is starting, and we’re all on Twitter for a front-row seat.
Tag: Work
09/08/2022
Opinion: The Immortal Awfulness of Open Plan Workplaces
Oscar Wilde is said to have quipped that “God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.” Our species is capable of folly on a grand scale.
09/13/2022
Mark Cuban doesn’t believe in following your passions
Mark reveals to Adam how he turns problems into opportunities in entrepreneurship, basketball, and investing. They discuss his latest venture–disrupting the healthcare industry with an online pharmacy and a price-slashing philosophy that makes hundreds of drugs affordable.
09/12/2022
Finding Opportunities In Hard Situations With Jason Feifer
Jason Feifer is the editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine, author of the book Build For Tomorrow (out September 2022), a startup advisor, and host of two podcasts.
09/01/2022
Ideas of India: A Conversation on Talent
Shruti Rajagopalan speaks with Tyler Cowen and Daniel Gross about underrated talents, asking the right questions, the most important qualities for settling Mars and much more.
12/31/2021
Opinion: The Egghead Gap
If America wants to keep China from setting the global course of science, we need a crash program to recruit international talent.
07/28/2022
Trader Joe’s workers vote to unionize for the first time
Employees at a store in western Massachusetts became the first of more than 500 Trader Joe’s locations to take such a step.
06/08/2022
Trader Joe’s Workers File for Election to Create Company’s First Union
The workers, at a store in western Massachusetts, cited health and safety concerns and cuts to benefits at the grocery chain.
05/26/2022
South Korean Workers Turn the Tables on Their Bad Bosses
“South Koreans live with an enormous tolerance for abuse” from the powerful, said one famously bullied advocate. A backlash has erupted.
05/04/2022
What ‘Moneyball’ got wrong: Pro baseball scouts can teach us a lot about automation and technological unemployment
Using data and technology + old-school experience and intuition seems to be the winning combination.
05/04/2022
Record number of women appointed to Fortune 500 boards
Women comprised 45% of all new Fortune 500 board appointments in 2021, a new high, while Black directors were 26% of new appointees, a tad lower than 2020 after a surge that year, according to a report released Wednesday morning by executive search and leadership consulting firm Heidrick & Struggles.
04/20/2022
A TikTok Army Is Coming for Union Busters
Online activists Gen-Z for Change targeted Starbucks and Kroger for anti-union firings. Now they plan to take aim at Amazon.
04/20/2022