How Can I Get Better at Spotting Talent in People Different From Me?

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How Can I Get Better at Spotting Talent in People Different From Me?     And three other tricky workplace dilemmas. Continued here

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Customers Are Starting to Use ChatGPT to Shop. Here's What Retailers Need to Know     As of now, shopping with the help of generative A.I. isn't quite frictionless. But devotees of the technology say there are ways to get ahead of the emerging trend. Continued here

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The Power of Saying "I'm Sorry" and "You're Forgiven"     A few months ago, a young client of mine shared how she had badly mishandled a project at work. The particulars aren’t exactly important. She did what we all do at some point in our careers — accidentally dropped the ball on a task she had yet to master. The problem was, three months after making this mistake, my client was still feeling embarrassed and self-conscious. To me, this was disquieting. She thought her credibility had been permanently wounded and carried this weight around on her shoulders, which began to negatively impact her wellbeing and performance. Why couldn’t my client let it go? Because she and the people her mistake had impacted politely sidestepped the matter. Her colleagues let their resentment linger, and my client held onto her shame. Continued here

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Is Your Business Model Part of Your Innovation Strategy?     “If you’re actually trying to create a new business model because the world is changing on you, then you don’t want to leverage what’s already in place,” he told IdeaCast guest host Sarah Cliffe in 2008. “The reason why entrant companies so readily beat the incumbents is [that they don’t] have anything that exists that they are tempted to leverage, and so they just create what needs to be created.” Continued here

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How to Win Big at Networking      Follow these networking tips to maximize your networking potential at events. Continued here

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What Is Apple's Vision Pro Really For?     To understand the value of Apple’s new goggles, it’s helpful to think about how virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) correspond to two fundamental tasks in decision making. VR presents new information; AR distills information from an existing environment. But previous headsets and internet-enabled glasses haven’t tapped into the potential for either of these in a decision-making context. Apple is betting that it can build an ecosystem of app developers who can. Continued here

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Uber Eats drivers in South Africa are being banned from the app due to power outages     For five years, Lovemore Moyo spent more than 12 hours a day making up to 20 food deliveries for Uber Eats in Johannesburg. However, one afternoon in January, while he was hurrying to reach a customer on time, the app suddenly locked him out. Moyo’s error was using Google Maps to navigate to the customer’s location after the Uber Eats in-app map malfunctioned, he told Rest of World. “I was blocked because the app failed to trace my movements while using an alternate GPS,” Moyo said. “In such cases, they suspect us of stealing the food.” Uber says drivers on the platform are allowed to use both the in-app map and Google Maps, as long as it doesn’t interfere with the app’s functionality. “Uber Eats does not arbitrarily deactivate delivery people,” a company spokesperson told Rest of World. But drivers claim that going off the app to use other GPS tools directly triggers the permanent blocks. Due to the theft and damage of cellphone tower batteries, which enable the towers to maintain power during prolonged load-shedding or controlled blackouts, the towers are ineffective and often turned off. This can result in malfunctions with the Uber Eats map. On the other hand, Google Maps continues to operate effectively as it maintains a direct connection with satellites, unaffected by local infrastructure challenges. Continued here

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Cleo, the Mysterious Math Menace     In 2013 a new user named Cleo took an online math forum by storm with unproved answers. Today she’s an urban legend. But who was she?Anthony Bonato: It’s a bit of an urban legend in mathematics. There’s a sort of a romance to the story, in a way. Continued here

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Black Tech Week Is a Boon for Cincinnati     Last year's Black Tech Week conference brought economic growth and new job opportunities to the Queen City. Continued here

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7 Keys to Establishing an Outstanding Employee-Experience Mindset     You can't improve your customer experience with employees who are not satisfied. Continued here

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3 Steps to Onboard a Hire More Efficiently     The majority of your work should already be done for you. Continued here

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Research: Your Love for Work May Alienate Your Colleagues     Research shows that employees who are passionate about their work are more productive, innovative, and collaborative. New research suggests that these employees also see passion for work as a moral imperative, and they’re more likely to judge colleagues who are motivated by other reasons, such as financial stability, social status, or familial obligations. The research also found that these employees were more likely to offer help to their more passionate colleagues. Leaders must recognize the diverse motivations that drive their workforce and create an inclusive environment that supports and values all forms of motivation, rather than penalizing those who do not fit the passion-centric mold. Continued here

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Strategies for Effective Messaging by Overcoming Challenges and Maximizing Impact     Overcome challenges and maximizing impact with these tips. Continued here

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Taking Decisive Action in a Crisis     HANNAH BATES: Welcome to HBR on Leadership, case studies and conversations with the world’s top business and management experts, hand-selected to help you unlock the best in those around you. Cynthia Carroll was only a few months into leading the global mining firm   when she suspended operations in their South African platinum mine. She was concerned about worker fatalities there. But it was an unprecedented move — and it came at a huge cost for the company. In this episode, Harvard Kennedy School of Government research fellow Gautam Mukunda explains how Carroll used that temporary shutdown to make changes to the company culture at Anglo American. In order to do that, she had to manage stakeholder relationships in the government and the unions – a tricky task for an outsider to South Africa, or any newcomer. This episode originally aired on Cold Call in September 2016. Here it is. Continued here

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What Advice Did Mark Cuban Just Say He Would Give His Younger Self? His Answer Applies to Nearly Every Entrepreneur     On a new episode of the 'Bio Eats World' podcast, Cuban offered his perspective on an underrated superpower, and why focusing on profitability matters most of all. Continued here

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IBM compensates for errors, gets usable results out of quantum processor     Today's quantum processors are error-prone. While the probabilities are small—less than 1 percent in many cases—each operation we perform on each qubit, including basic things like reading its state, has a significant error rate. If we try an operation that needs a lot of qubits, or a lot of operations on a smaller number of qubits, then errors become inevitable. Continued here

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Warren Buffett Says Practicing     Identify the habits that align with your values and long-term goals, and consciously nurture them. Continued here

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Artemis: The return to the Moon that will set new space records     After an absence of 50 years, Nasa is returning to the Moon. This time the programme is named after Artemis, the Greek goddess of the Moon and twin sister of Sun god Apollo. Not only is it a better fit in terms of name and destination, Artemis will ensure something Apollo neglected to do: it will put the first woman on the Moon.Appropriately, Nasa's first female launch director, Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, oversaw the countdown and lift-off of the first mission. But Artemis I was far more than a feminist moment. During its almost 26-day journey in an extended retrograde orbit around the Moon – travelling in the opposite direction to the Moon orbiting the Earth – it achieved the first of a number of other important firsts. Continued here

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How the Moon is making days longer on Earth     Throughout human history the Moon has been an inextricable, ghostly presence above the Earth. Its gentle gravitational tug sets the rhythm of the tides, while its pale light illuminates the nocturnal nuptials of many species. Entire civilisations have set their calendars by it as it has waxed and waned, and some animals – such as dung beetles – use sunlight reflecting off the Moon's surface to help them navigate.More crucially, the Moon may have helped to create the conditions that make life on our planet possible, according to some theories, and may even have helped to kickstart life on Earth in the first place. Its eccentric orbit around our planet is thought to also play a role in some of the important weather systems that dominate our lives today. Continued here

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The IITs remain undefeated     The renowned Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) have once again emerged on top in a recently released government ranking of the best higher education institutions in the country.The IITs took up seven out of the top 10 spots in the 2023 National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), which evaluates institutions on parameters such as resources, research, and stakeholder perception. The NIRF list is released by India’s education ministry. Continued here

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Reddit Faces a Crossroads as it Considers an IPO Later This Year--and Users Are Still in Open Revolt     Charging third-party developers for access to its API has caused a user rebellion, as the platform searches for profitability. Continued here

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A New English Dialect Is Emerging in South Florida, Linguists Say     According to my recently published research, these expressions – along with a host of others – form part of a new dialect taking shape in South Florida.This language variety came about through sustained contact between Spanish and English speakers, particularly when speakers translated directly from Spanish. Continued here

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Apple's biggest competition in India? Used iPhone sellers     It’s been just about two months since Apple launched its first two flagship stores in India — one in Mumbai, one in Delhi — as part of a high-stakes gamble to sell more iPhones in the country. The stores are setting retail records, and as far as Apple shareholders are concerned, the system is working. But in the places where Delhi residents usually buy their phones, the situation looks different. Gaffar Market is about an hour from Apple’s swanky New Delhi store. It’s one of the capital city’s major hubs for secondhand iPhone sales, with dozens of stores that display nothing but used iPhones. In a city where the phone can easily cost a month’s wages, Gaffar drives home a difficult truth for Apple: To most people in Delhi, the iPhone is still a luxury item. Continued here

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AI Promises Humanity One Last Job. Helping AI Help Humanity     With AI threatening to overtake the world of work, at least one pretty good job will always be in demandFrom dethroning chess masters and game show champions to outperforming radiologists, the dazzling—and at times overwhelming—world of artificial intelligence raises deep questions about the future of human jobs. Continued here

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This Ancient Language Has the Only Grammar Based Entirely on the Human Body     An endangered language family suggests that early humans used their bodies as a model for realityOne morning in December 2004, elders and children were wandering on the shore of Strait Island in the Bay of Bengal when one of them noticed something odd. The sea level was low, and weird-looking creatures that normally inhabit the deep twilight zone of the ocean were bobbing near the water's surface. “Sare ukkuburuko!”—the sea has turned upside down!—shouted Nao Junior. One of the last inheritors of wisdom transmitted over thousands of generations through his mother tongue, he knew what this bizarre phenomenon signified. So did other Indigenous peoples of the Andaman Islands. They all raced inland and uphill, their ancestral knowledge saving them from the devastating tsunami that slammed onto coastlines across the Indian Ocean minutes later and swept away some 225,000 people. Continued here

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Finland's plan to bury spent nuclear fuel for 100,000 years     "Onkalo" is a Finnish word for a cave or a hollow. It implies something big and deep: you don't know where an onkalo ends or whether it ends at all.It's a fitting name for a huge grave made in Finland over the last 20 years. Onkalo, which lies 450m (1,500ft) deep inside the bedrock of Olkiluoto island in the southwest of the country, is the world's first permanent storage site for spent nuclear fuel. Continued here

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A New Therapy for Multiple Personality Disorder Helps a Woman with 12 Selves     Therapy for dissociative identity disorder has aimed to meld many personalities into one. But that’s not the only solution, a caring therapist showsWhen Ella time traveled in my office for the first time, I did not realize what was happening right away. She was sitting comfortably in a chair, her hands folded, her back straight and her feet flat on the floor. There was no dramatic change, no shuddering or twitching. But then I saw it: a slight shift in how she held her body. Her face softened almost imperceptibly. I heard it, too: her voice sounded different, pitched just a teeny bit higher than usual, with a new singsong quality. At first I found it curious. As it continued, I felt a growing sense of unease. Acting on a hunch, I asked her how old she was. “I'm seven,” she said. Ella was 19. Continued here

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Can You Change Your Metabolism?     Though you might not be able to significantly rev up your metabolism, there are ways to boost the energy your body burns while doing nothingIn the gym, on medical and wellness websites and on social media, the phrase “boost your metabolism” gets thrown around a lot. Supplement marketers promise pills to make it happen, health mavens pinky swear their diet routine will rev the rate, and probably most of us, starting around our 30s, think that aging has reduced the efficiency of our metabolic engine. Continued here

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Why scientists are making fake Moon dust     Even with the walls of a volcanic crater looming behind the white-washed single-storey buildings, it would be easy to miss the sleepy town of Tao. It only takes a few moments to pass through it as you drive along the LZ-20 highway that cuts across the middle of Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands. And despite its vicinity to the Tamia volcanic crater at the heart of the island, Tao is not one of Lanzarote's key tourist attractions.Recently, however, the town has been receiving visitors of a very different kind – those whose interest lies not in the volcano, but in the dark grey soil that Tao is built upon. This drab, rocky material has a surprising part to play in one of this decade's most ambitious human endeavours. It will help put humans back on the Moon. Continued here

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Google risks forced breakup of ad business as EU alleges shocking misconduct     Google may soon be ordered to break up its lucrative ad business, which amounted to nearly $225 billion in 2022 and represented nearly 80 percent of Google's total revenue. Today, as expected, the European Commission (EC) sent Google a statement of objections, detailing ad tech antitrust charges and explaining exactly why the EC thinks that breaking up Google's ad business may be the only acceptable remedy. Continued here