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September 28, 2016
3 Hidden Reasons Why You're Unsatisfied At Work
Sometimes the source of your workplace frustration really is the job. Other times, it's staring at you in the mirror.
Sometimes the source of your workplace frustration really is the job. Other times, it's staring at you in the mirror.
Ever notice how nine out of 10 people run cold when the subject turns to how someone's job is going? People who hate what they do struggle to respond without anger and contempt. Reporting to a horrible boss or being forced to do boring and mundane work all day, every day, are among the chief complaints. These are valid issues, but there's also something to be said for causing your own dissatisfaction at work.
6 Things To Do When Your Job Kills Your Curiosity
Your job may be routine and monotonous, but what goes on inside your head doesn't have to be.
Your job may be routine and monotonous, but what goes on inside your head doesn't have to be.
You may not think of your curiosity as a job skill, but it is. There's evidence, for starters, linking curiosity to employability, and as a predictor of your ability to gain and maintain a desired job over time. Second, curiosity is crucial for building relationships. Curious people are more willing and able to connect with others, which equips them to collaborate, whether in person or virtually. Third, curiosity may even be an antidote to job automation: If you don't want your skills to get outdated or outsourced to a robot, you'd better keep learning!
Automated Cars Probably Won't Make Human Drivers Obsolete
Not if the 100-year history of autopilot for airplanes is any indication. Planes can fly themselves—but only with two people in the cockpit.
Not if the 100-year history of autopilot for airplanes is any indication. Planes can fly themselves—but only with two people in the cockpit.
At a competition for the "most practicable safety device" in 1914, Brooklyn pilot Lawrence Sperry awed spectators in Bezons, France, when he stood up in the cockpit with both hands in the air mid-flight and asked his mechanic to crawl onto the wing. "The man did so, yet he had no more desire to die than you or I have," read commentary from the New York Times. "Nothing happened."
Four Work Habits You Need To Change At Each Stage Of Your Career
This GE exec shares how she learned to change her working methods as she's taken on bigger leadership roles.
This GE exec shares how she learned to change her working methods as she's taken on bigger leadership roles.
I accepted my first management role early in my career, heading up a 15-person team at GE Global Research's semiconductor laboratory. It was a big step at the time, but today I manage 28 labs of over 500 people, in addition to our research headquarters with around 2,000 people on site. Making that first shift from contributor to leader wasn't easy, but it set me up for the other big changes I'd go on to make in my career.
September 27, 2016
Slack Unveils The First Of Many Integrations With Salesforce
The popular enterprise messaging platform will be able to pull in Salesforce record data, and sync with its Chatter messaging feature.
The popular enterprise messaging platform will be able to pull in Salesforce record data, and sync with its Chatter messaging feature.
The popular enterprise messaging app Slack said today that it's partnering with Salesforce to let companies that use both platforms more easily unify and harmonize sales lead information and conversations.
Spotify Just Made The "Shuffle" Button A Thousand Times Smarter
Daily Mix is a new personalized playlist that blends songs you love with new, undiscovered gems that fit right in.
Daily Mix is a new personalized playlist that blends songs you love with new, undiscovered gems that fit right in.
Matthew Ogle wants Spotify to stop feeling so much like a music app. That might sound counterintuitive, since Spotify is pretty much synonymous with streaming music these days, but his quest is simpler than it sounds: More and more, he wants the all-you-can-stream music service to feel like an old friend.
Kano, Creator Of Build-It-Yourself Tech For Kids, Is Going Beyond The PC
This company wants to make it as easy for kids (and the rest of us) to build and program gadgets as it is to use them.
This company wants to make it as easy for kids (and the rest of us) to build and program gadgets as it is to use them.
From Hackaball to the Mover Kit to Apple's Swift Playgrounds, a cottage industry has lately sprung up of gadgets and apps dedicated to helping kids learn how to code. Kano, which launched in 2013 as a Kickstarter project, was one of the earlier efforts. And the concept—it's a Linux-powered computer that budding programmers build themselves, hooked into an online code-sharing community—remains unique.
This Auditing App Lets Your Boss Police Suspicious "Work" Cocktails
AppZen, which offers automated auditing services, just added computer vision and AI to help spot sketchy charges in expense reports.
AppZen, which offers automated auditing services, just added computer vision and AI to help spot sketchy charges in expense reports.
These days, a lot of workers are worried about robots taking their jobs, but now robots are taking jobs that literally no one else was doing—like poring through every inch of people's dense expense reports.
Wink's Second Act: A Push For The Elusive Mainstream Smart Home
The new $100 Wink hub connects with more devices, touts tighter security, and has the support of Walmart.
The new $100 Wink hub connects with more devices, touts tighter security, and has the support of Walmart.
Among all the companies competing for smart-home supremacy, it's easy to forget about Wink.
Studs Terkel's Interviews With 1970s Working People Resurface On NPR
The famed Chicago author and radio host left behind boxes of tapes after he died in 2008. Now, they've been digitized.
The famed Chicago author and radio host left behind boxes of tapes after he died in 2008. Now, they've been digitized.
"Going through these tapes was like finding the Dead Sea Scrolls," Joe Richman, the founder and executive producer of the podcast Radio Diaries, says about the interviews Studs Terkel recorded while writing his influential oral history, Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do.
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