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CEO Picks - The most popular editorials that have stood the test of time! S1 How Recessions Drive Innovation in Fashion In a country where the economy seems to be hurtling toward a recession (unless it's not), you might expect everything from housing costs to consumer behavior to be affected. And you might imagine that, in times of relative privation, spending time and attention and money on fashion would be one of the first expenses to be cut. But based on years of research on financial trends and spending habits, there’s a lot of evidence that suggests the most striking fashion trends are born from economic downturns. Continued here � � S2 Donald Trump and the Sweepstakes Scammers It was nighttime in Atlantic City. A man with a tight Afro and a broken ankle hobbled on crutches toward the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino. On the covered driveway, bathed in neon light, sat a Cadillac Allanté convertible—the grand prize in Trump’s 1987 Drive-In Dreamstakes. The contest had been designed by Charles (Chuck) Seidman, a gregarious, boundlessly enthusiastic pitchman who called his business C.B.S.—short for C. B. Seidman Marketing Group—in the hope that the television station would sue him, giving him free publicity. Continued here You Might Like � � � S3 7 Tasks Every Leader Must Master If you're seeking to be a better leader and create a high-performing organization, there are certain tasks you cannot ignore. As a leader, you're not only responsible for guiding your team members to success, you're also responsible for team morale, development, conflict resolution, office culture, along with many other duties. Continued here � S4 How to Be the 'Personality Hire' at Your Next Job You know the token “funny one” at your workplace? Well, those coworkers are self-aware, and they’re speaking out. It’s called being a “personality hire,” and the term is trending on TikTok from those claiming that their charisma landed them their job, rather than the qualifications on their resume. Continued here You Might Like � � � S5 This 40-Year-Old Dad Used a Simple Hack to Lose 20% Body Fat I always thought I was in pretty okay shape. I would intermittently go to the gym, sometimes getting into fad workouts—my waist was at 31 inches and I figured I was doing fine. One day my daughter said to me, “I love you, papa, and you’re squishy!” I realized I had the infamous “dad bod.” Continued here � S6 5 Exercises To Strengthen Your Erector Spinae Muscles | Well+Good The erector spinae are a group of rope-like muscles that run up and down the sides of your spine. They’re largely responsible for stabilizing the back and allowing us to freely rotate, bend, and extend. According to Deidre Douglas, EdD, a Les Mills US presenter and instructor, it’s this column of muscles that plays such a vital role in good posture. Continued here � S7 How to Stay Cool in a World That's Heating Up Extreme heat is fast becoming a fact of life thanks to climate change. The kind of record-smashing heat waves that have scorched Europe, North America, South Asia, and China this summer are only expected to become more common as the century progresses. Read on to learn more about how the climate crisis is making heat waves more intense and more frequent, and what individuals and communities can do to mitigate and adapt to the dangers of extreme heat. Continued here � S8 Does DNA Prove These Wild Horses Came From a Spanish Shipwreck? If you know, you know—horse girls, I’m looking at you. For everyone else: This beloved 1947 children’s novel tells the story of Misty the pony, born on the beaches of an uninhabited barrier island. The story is fictional, but the setting is real. A band of wild horses still roams that island today, eating seagrass and largely ignoring tourists who come for selfies with a real-life version of Misty. Continued here � S9 Kahlil Gibran on Befriending Time I have been thinking about time lately, as I watch the seasons turn and wait for a seemingly endless season of the heart to set; I have been thinking about Ursula K. Le Guin's lovely "Hymn to Time" and its kaleidoscopic view of time as stardust scattered in "the radiance of each bright galaxy" and the "eyes beholding radiance," time as a portal that "makes room for going and coming home," time as a womb in which "begins all ending"; I have been thinking about Seneca, who thousands of seasons ago insisted in his Stoic's key to living with presence that "nothing is ours, except time." Continued here S10 Can't Overcome the Navy SEAL 40 Percent Rule? Even if you think you're exhausted, cranking out another five seconds is (relatively) nothing. The endurance test is a different beast. Stuck on a bike, hamster-wheeling away, heart pounding and legs screaming, and not knowing how long all that pain will last? That's physically and mentally draining, a combination that makes it much harder to keep pushing past what you perceive as your limit.  Continued here S11 Why the housing market is about to crash The existence of the 50-year mortgage shows lenders are desperate. Continued here S12 Here's what Aristotle thought it meant to be truly wealthy With things, the idea of a telos becomes much easier: a boat is to be sailed, a book is to be read, and a beer is to be drunk. It might be that a telos changes from time to time (I might throw my book at you and so make it a weapon). Still, the object is defined by its purpose. This is how Aristotle understood things, and it’s also why he so hated money. Continued here S13 'It's a modern-day Facebook' – how BeReal became Gen Z's favourite app "Instagram, please stop trying to be TikTok." App users including Kim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner shared this plea last month when Instagram trialled changes that flooded users' feeds with short-form videos called "reels" and content uploaded by strangers. They were reacting to Instagram's attempt to wrest Gen Z eyeballs away from TikTok by mimicking some of the app's signature features. Continued here S14 The murky legal waters of catfishing: An expert explains why it's so hard to catch and cook an internet scammer Though morally dubious, a lot of catfishing is technically legal. Continued here S15 Serena Williams is retiring a tennis legend. These charts prove it. Serena Williams is pretty much the game, set, match queen of the tennis world. Continued here S16 A flash of genius | Boris Starling | The Critic Magazine This summer sees the 50th anniversary of one of the most extraordinary debuts in cricket history. It was the second Test of the 1972 Ashes, and Bob Massie was limbering up to bowl for Australia. Three years before, he had been rejected by Northamptonshire while playing for Kilmarnock, not exactly a hotbed of willow and leather. Now he was about to tear England apart. Continued here S17 The Lost Art of Striking a Pose With Your TV Set In midcentury America, the machine itself became a character. Continued here S18 An Oral History of Tim Curry's Escape to the One Place Uncorrupted by Capitalism Is it the sweet transvestite from Transexual, Transylvania in The Rocky Horror Picture Show, is it Wadsworth the butler who butles in Clue, is it Stephen King’s sewer clown in It? Or is this—seriously, this short, ridiculous cutscene from Red Alert 3—the defining performance of Tim Curry’s long career? Continued here S19 The Chef Who Turned Fine Dining Into Fanfiction The first time I went to a Game of Thrones dinner at the restaurant Elizabeth, the room was decked out in banners bearing ancestral sigils, while dozens of vinyl figurines were stuffed into every possible gap and onto every ledge. It was April 2017, a seventh season of the show would air in a couple of months, and a friend had come to Chicago to attend this dinner with me, not because we loved Game of Thrones — neither of us had watched for years at that point — but because the idea of a fannish dinner was exciting. Continued here S20 A pizza topping that divides the world The man popularly credited with giving the world the ham and pineapple pizza was neither Hawaiian, nor in fact Italian. Sam Panopoulos was a Greek immigrant to Canada who ran a restaurant with his brothers in the city of Chatham, Ontario. Panopoulos had recently visited Naples – the birthplace of pizza – and was inspired to start adding the Italian staple to the restaurant's usual line-up of burgers and pancakes. But what to put on it? Continued here S21 We may never fully know how video games affect our well-being But researchers have pinpointed the data might help to provide more clues. Continued here S22 The Great Consolidation of the Video Game Industry Amid an ongoing spree of mergers and acquisitions, fewer companies own more of the gaming industry than ever before. But what does consolidation mean for workers, players, and the medium itself? Continued here S23 The Fierce Debate Over How to Feed Your Baby Before giving birth, I had many convictions about the kind of mother I would be – convictions that later fell apart, one by one. My motherhood journey has been more about unlearning; getting rid of the cumbersome baggage of who I dreamed of being and coming to terms with what I could actually do. Continued here S24 Keep an eye on your student's mental health this back-to-school season NPR’s sites use cookies, similar tracking and storage technologies, and information about the device you use to access our sites (together, “cookies”) to enhance your viewing, listening and user experience, personalize content, personalize messages from NPR’s sponsors, provide social media features, and analyze NPR’s traffic. This information is shared with social media, sponsorship, analytics, and other vendors or service providers. See details. Continued here S25 End Times in Aspen Here in Aspen, the air is thin, the snow is perfect, and money is everywhere. This is a singular American town in many respects. Among them is this: Aspen had, until very recently, two legitimate daily newspapers, The Aspen Times and the Aspen Daily News. At a moment when local newspapers face manifold threats to their existence and more and more American cities become news deserts, Aspen was the opposite: a news geyser. The town’s corps of reporters covers small-town tropes like high-school musicals and the Fourth of July parade. But Aspen’s journalists are also the watchdogs and chroniclers of one of the richest towns in America and a site of extreme economic inequality, the exemplar of the phenomenon that academics call “super-gentrification,” where—as the locals often say—“the billionaires are forcing out the millionaires.” Continued here S26 Should Former Presidents Get Special Legal Treatment? Last week, the F.B.I. searched the Florida home of former President Donald Trump and removed twenty-seven boxes of material that he had taken from the White House. A number of the boxes contained classified information. Trump has said that the raid was part of a political witch hunt and suggested that agents may have planted material; a number of fellow-Republicans have followed his lead, and attacked the F.B.I. But even some Trump opponents are concerned about the implications of an indictment—the possible political backlash and whether the precedent would encourage future Administrations to investigate their predecessors. The New York Times columnist David Brooks, for instance, worried that arresting Trump could lead to “a complete democratic breakdown.” In the Washington Post, George Will warned that “the punctilious enforcement of every law, no matter how complex the social context, is zombie governance by people spouting bromides to avoid making complex judgments.” These fears prompt the question of whether the Department of Justice should have a higher bar for prosecuting former Presidents than it does for other citizens. Continued here S27 The Radical Roots of Bikesharing In 1967, a newly elected representative of the Amsterdam City Council named Luud Schimmelpenninck presented the city with a novel proposal: Why didn't the city help to solve its traffic congestion problems by creating a fleet of bikes that were entirely free to use? At that time, the Dutch capital's streets had become clogged with cars, with frequent pedestrian deaths and injuries. Would it not be better, Schimmelpenninck suggested, to make cycling so cheap and easy that cars disappeared? Continued here S28 Travel Checklist: 19 Things to Prep and Pack Before Your Next Vacation As you're putting together your packing list, here are the pre-travel pro tips you need to travel smart. Continued here S29 Are the People Who Take Vacations the Ones Who Get Promoted? Too many people limit their happiness and success by assuming that taking time off from work will send a negative message to their manager and slow their career advancement. But new research says that the exact opposite is true. Taking a vacation can actually increase the likelihood of getting a raise or a promotion. Continued here S30 You're Delegating. It's Not Working. Here's Why. Many managers know the supposed benefits of delegation: It offers the opportunity to develop employees, while removing tasks from your never-ending to-do list. But many individuals find themselves frustrated that handing over a tasks or project doesn’t work. They discover the work isn’t done right or on time — or worse, they end up spending even more time fixing the problems than if they’d done it all themselves. Continued here S31 Visualizing the $100 Trillion Dollar World Economy in One Chart The smallest economy in the world measured in the IMF rankings is Tuvalu at $66 million. Most of the bottom 50 are considered low- to middle-income and emerging/developing countries. According to the World Bank, in developing countries, the level of per capita income in 2022 will be about 5% below the pre-pandemic trends. Continued here S32 'Company loyalty will make you poor': Early retiree credits his $1 million net worth to these 7 'unpopular opinions' Self-made millionaire Steve Adcock retired early in his mid-30s. He got rich the old-fashioned way, by working a 9-to-5 and saving and investing wisely. He also attributes his financial success to seven unpopular life and money rules. Continued here S33 'Quiet quitting' is TikTok's answer to grind culture, but it's not what you think Before the pandemic, 31-year-old digital strategist Jürgen* loved his job. He had a good team around him whom he considered friends, and the work he was doing was stimulating and manageable. "For a long time, I was genuinely excited to go to work every day," he says. "I was working for a company I was passionate about, on projects I thought were interesting, and with people I enjoyed working with." But, when Coronavirus and its resulting lockdowns hit, he found himself "working 15+ hours every day, due to cuts that were made across the company." Continued here S34 Facing the Fears That Hold You Back at Work Common fears that hold people back include the fear of failure, the fear of letting others down, the fear of looking bad or losing others’ respect, but also include more primal fears, such as that of being marginalized, rejected, or unable to support oneself. Often, these fears are not rational, but are visceral at their core. While they often operate below the surface, they are an active force in driving unproductive behavior. In this article, the authors offer strategies for how to unpack and challenging these fears and limiting beliefs so that you can dismantle your self-imposed barriers and achieve greater success. Continued here S35 Burnout Is Real. Here's How to Spot It—and Recover. When people ask me why I became a writer, I have plenty of reasons to list: Words bring me joy. I ask questions constantly. And when I hear a good story, I'll repeat it again and again until my friends get tired of hearing it. But in July of 2021, these responses started to feel hollow.  Continued here S36 The 5 Best Exercises To Lose Belly Fat and Slow Aging, Says Fitness Expert -- Eat This Not That We've consulted with our team of licensed nutritionists and dietitians to bring you informed recommendations for food products, health aids and nutritional goods to safely and successfully guide you toward making better diet and nutrition choices. We strive to only recommend products that adhere to our philosophy of eating better while still enjoying what you eat. Continued here S37 For those who like to rock: The most interesting rock formations on the planet | BBC Science Focus Magazine “The Ah-Shi-Sle-Pah Wilderness can feel like an alien planet, with its strange shapes, colours and lack of vegetation,” says Stan Allison, of the Bureau of Land Management Farmington Field Office. The hoodoos – irregular columns of rock – dotted around the landscape also help create that otherworldly quality. Continued here S38 Physicist Claims To Have Solved the Mystery of Consciousness The ability of the brain to create consciousness has baffled people for millennia. The mystery of consciousness lies in the fact that each of us has subjectivity, with the ability to sense, feel, and think. In contrast to being under anesthesia or in a dreamless deep sleep, while we’re awake we don’t “live in the dark” — we experience the world and ourselves. However, it remains a mystery how the brain creates the conscious experience and what area of the brain is responsible. Continued here S39 How People With High Emotional Intelligence Use the Fortune Cookie Rule to Become Exceptionally Resilient Look, I find the whole concept of emotional intelligence fascinating, but I'm most interested in practical, actionable strategies: things like how to choose the right words, how to see things through other people's eyes, and how to use silence, humor, and implicit messaging to communicate effectively. 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