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July 28, 2016
The Counterintuitive Reason Why You Need To Stop Promoting High Performers
You should only promote someone after they've proved themselves, right? Wrong, says this talent management expert.
You have a low-performing employee and a high-performing employee both up for the same promotion: Who do you promote? It's no contest, right?
Four Ways To Respond When Someone Objects To What You've Said
Speak to people often enough and you're bound to slip up. Here's what to say next to smooth things over.
If your job involves speaking to people, it's bound to happen: You get called out for something you say. Maybe you've misspoken or made an innocent error. Maybe you voiced some provocative views. Maybe you've even offended someone.
How To Project Authority Right After You Get Promoted
How do you get former peers and supervisors to take you seriously as a boss when everyone remembers the mistakes you made years ago?
When employees take on leadership roles at new companies, they typically enter with a certain mystique. It's likely that no one saw you in the early years, when you were green or made some big mistakes. Or, if someone who knew you then brought you to where you are now, they clearly think enough of you to understand how you've grown over the years.
How Hampton Creek's Plant-Based Foods Have Scrambled The Grocery Aisle
From yolk-free mayo to chickenless "eggs," Hampton Creek CEO Josh Tetrick has a vision for a new kind of food chain.
From Silicon Valley to SoMa, the Bay Area is packed with blockbuster companies that were built on little more than a good idea. But there's only one that was built on a condiment. Three years ago, Hampton Creek's Just Mayo, which swaps a protein derived from Canadian yellow peas for the eggs that help emulsify oil into sandwich-spreadable goodness, appeared in Whole Foods (and, later, Walmart and Kroger) stores across the nation. Among an increasingly influential coalition of shoppers—ethics-minded consumers, along with vegans and people with food allergies—it was an instant hit. To a casual observer, vegan mayonnaise hardly seemed like the opening salvo in a war to capture supermarket-aisle space from giants like Unilever, Kraft, and Nestlé. To Josh Tetrick, the 36-year-old founder of San Francisco–based Hampton Creek, it was that and more. A high school football star from Birmingham, Alabama, who still speaks with a Southern drawl, Tetrick sees the entire global food system as an opportunity for the kind of rip-it-up-and-start-again thinking at which Silicon Valley excels. Or as he puts it, flashing a wolfish grin, "I want us to be the biggest food company on the planet. And I want us to do some good at the same time."
Michelle Obama And Ivanka Trump Show You Two Ways To Give A Knockout Speech
Both women's masterful convention addresses showcase two powerful speaking styles: one cinematic, the other percussive.
There are many ways to be a bad speaker and many ways to be a good one. Those twinned truths have been on display during the Republican and Democratic National Conventions this week and last. And while their backgrounds and politics differ quite a bit, Michelle Obama and Ivanka Trump delivered two of the most memorable and compelling addresses—for similar but different reasons.
How Where You Sit In Your Office Impacts Your Productivity
Bad behavior in the workplace is contagious. But a new study suggests that pairing workers together can boost productivity and profits.
Your office seating chart may hold the key to how happy and productive you are at work.
July 27, 2016
How WikiLeaks Has Changed: From Whistleblower To Weapon
Experts say the organization appears to have grown more partisan, and more eager to boost impact by pegging releases to events in the news.
When last week WikiLeaks released tens of thousands of emails believed to have been obtained by Russian hackers from top Democratic National Committee officials, experts say it marked a dramatic change in tactics from how the transparency organization has released data in years past.
An All-Seeing Eye In The Sky Will Watch Over The Rio Olympics
The Olympic Games will be the first use of Logos Technologies' city-wide persistent surveillance system at a sporting event.
When the Olympic Games begin next month in Rio de Janeiro, billions of people are expected to watch athletes from countries around the world compete.
How Canada's Philanthropic Pop Industrial Complex Took Over The World
While U.S. musicians struggle to get by, a vast system of government grants keeps the Canadian music scene pumping out the hits. And it turns out, a vibrant music scene is a very good thing for a country to have.
Six years ago, Abel Tesfaye was just another musician making mixtapes and distributing songs for free on YouTube. Then Drake tweeted about him, fans went nuts, and—as the rock lore so often goes—he ascended from virtually nowhere to claim the celebrity throne. In February, Tesfaye—now far better known by his stage name, The Weeknd—was nominated for five Grammies and won two, including best R&B song for "Earned It," originally written for the movie Fifty Shades of Grey, and best R&B album for Beauty Behind the Madness, which included that song and two more, "Can't Feel My Face" and "The Hills," both also top Billboard hits.
Marriott Is Preparing For Gen Z With An Innovation Lab Hotel
At the Charlotte location, the chain is trying out a bunch of new concepts that guests can evaluate by pushing a button or swiping a screen.
The Marriott in downtown Charlotte, North Carolina, offers a familiar scene to anyone who's ever set foot in one of the chain's properties. Guests are often in town for business and can be found at the lobby cafe grabbing a quick coffee before morning meetings or a glass of wine after work at the bar.
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