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September 20, 2016
The One Surprising Person Your Work Team Desperately Needs
The ad agency Walton Isaacson takes a page from Civil Rights leader Bayard Rustin in order to keep teams innovating.
The ad agency Walton Isaacson takes a page from Civil Rights leader Bayard Rustin in order to keep teams innovating.
We all know the story of the 1963 March on Washington because it culminated in one of the most iconic moments of the Civil Rights Movement, with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., declaring, "I have a dream." What many of us don't know, though, is that the march might not have happened—and the fight for civil rights might have been a lot bloodier—if not for a rather troublesome character named Bayard Rustin.
How To Channel Your Weekend Hobbies Into Weekday Productivity
Weekend hobbies can help improve workplace performance, but only if they're chosen based on what you did during the week.
Weekend hobbies can help improve workplace performance, but only if they're chosen based on what you did during the week.
If you find Mondays particularly difficult, it may be due in part to how you spent your weekend. Lingering hangovers and lack of sleep aside, new research suggests that the hobbies we engage in over the weekend can impact our productivity during the workweek.
7 Signs That Being A Manager Is Burning You Out
Looking out for your team members is great, but not when you're so overworked that you stop looking out for yourself.
Looking out for your team members is great, but not when you're so overworked that you stop looking out for yourself.
It's pretty much a given that as a manager, you're going to have more high-level responsibilities than the employees you oversee. But feeling chronically overworked and stressed is not something you should just live with as a condition of your job.
September 19, 2016
Microsoft's "Biological Computing" Lab Aims To Fight Diseases By Reprogramming Cells
When you work at Microsoft, everything looks like software—even cancer and other threats to human life.
When you work at Microsoft, everything looks like software—even cancer and other threats to human life.
Microsoft's researchers don't talk about "curing" cancer. Instead, they are aiming to "solve" it.
America Doesn't Have Time For More Tech-Challenged Politicians
With technology tightly entwined with business, transportation, and government, lawmakers need to work closely with the tech community.
With technology tightly entwined with business, transportation, and government, lawmakers need to work closely with the tech community.
During my 35 years of covering the technology industry, I have seen firsthand how companies have tried to keep an arm's-length relationship with the government. With some rare exceptions—the Pentagon's cooperation and collaboration with industry brought us the internet—Silicon Valley has generally tried to avoid federal and state bureaucrats. After all, the less the government knew about what tech companies were doing, the fewer legal and legislative issues the industry would have to deal with.
More Women Are Buying The Apple Watch Series 2, According To Preorders
Females were slightly better represented in the preorders for the Series 2 than for the Series 1.
Females were slightly better represented in the preorders for the Series 2 than for the Series 1.
More women are buying the new Apple Watch Series 2 compared to the number of women who bought the previous version, according to new preorder data from Slice Intelligence, but men are still far more likely to buy the device. The research firm analyzes millions of online consumer transactions to get a look at who ordered what and when.
Nikon Is First Big Camera Maker To Get Into VR Video
Nikon says image quality will be the killer feature in its rugged, $500 KeyMission 360 virtual reality camera.
Nikon says image quality will be the killer feature in its rugged, $500 KeyMission 360 virtual reality camera.
When you think of major camera makers, names like 360fly, LG, and Ricoh may not spring to mind. Such newcomers have staked out early spots in the emerging 360-degree virtual reality video market. That changes today as Nikon launches its KeyMission 360 virtual reality camera.
Illumina, Secret Giant Of DNA Sequencing, Is Bringing Its Tech To The Masses
With spin-off investments Grail and Helix, and a new software-savvy CEO, Illumina is poised to make DNA an even bigger part of your life.
With spin-off investments Grail and Helix, and a new software-savvy CEO, Illumina is poised to make DNA an even bigger part of your life.
It would raise the stakes even higher, but that didn't stop Jay Flatley, Illumina's then chief executive, from sending in vials of his own saliva and blood to the company's newly opened lab. It was January 2009, and Illumina's scientists were about to embark on their first mission to sequence a whole human genome.
Drybar's Secrets To Blow Out The Competition
Hint: It has everything to do with the fact that they're related.
Hint: It has everything to do with the fact that they're related.
When Alli Webb started talking about her idea for Drybar seven years ago, everybody thought she was crazy. On the surface, the concept really doesn't make much sense. It's a hair salon, but you don't actually get a cut or color; all you get is a blow dry. And the whole experience costs you $45. Who would go for that?
6 Habits Of Trustworthy Leaders
The people in your office may not trust you as much as you think they do. Here's how to win them over.
The people in your office may not trust you as much as you think they do. Here's how to win them over.
Do the people in your office trust you? Maybe not as much as you think they do.
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