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July 8, 2014
4 Common Vocal Mistakes Leaders Make
Turn down the upspeak, add verbal punctuation, and listen. You can command a room like a leader by simply adjusting your tone of voice.
Commanding respect as a leader means more than having a fancy job title and a corner office; it also means having the right tone of voice.
You're Probably Making These Five Mistakes At Work
How many of these communication fails have you committed? Recognize where you're coming up short--and find out how to change.
You show up to the office on time, you've never missed a project deadline, and you always refill the coffee pot when you're done.
July 7, 2014
Tiny Houses Are About To Invade Your TV Starting This Week
Can a whole family live in a 300-square-foot house? Finally, a TV show comes up with an answer.
They've gotten everything from a New Yorker profile to a feature-length (okay, a short feature) documentary, and now finally the tiny house movement is getting a regular TV show. "Tiny House Nation," on FYI (formerly known as Bio), premieres this Wednesday.
Psssst: Meet Invisible.im, A Secure Instant Messager For Whistleblowers
It's time to retire the fake mustache
Once upon a time, whistleblowers relied on tricks like fake glasses and invisible ink to conceal their identities. Now those analog disguises are getting a digital makeover, thanks to a project called Invisible.im.
UN Drug Report: Marijuana Legalization Will Increase Number Of Cannabis Users
For every 10% decline in prices, there will be a 3% rise in cannabis users, according to the UN's 2014 World Drug Report.
Legalization of marijuana in Washington and Colorado is expected to drive prices down, resulting in an increase in the total number of pot users, says the United Nation's 2014 World Drug Report.
Dubai Unveils Plans For A 48-Million-Square-Foot Pedestrian City
The climate-controlled city will include an indoor theme park, 100 hotels, a theater district, and a wellness district.
Dubai has built a reputation as a shopper's paradise, but the emirate is undertaking a new real-estate project that includes an 8-million-square-foot shopping center--purportedly the world's largest--to seal its place as a mall capital.
Discarded Japanese Gadget Factories Are Becoming High-Tech Greenhouses
After Fukushima, the Japanese electronics industry is turning to agriculture. Talk about modern farming.
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, companies such as Fujitsu, Toshiba, and Panasonic are beginning to grow produce such as lettuce and strawberries where silicon chips were once grown instead.
Ask The Experts: How Can I Get My Boss To Give Me More Critical Feedback?
It may seem like a good problem to have, but if your boss is too busy to give you critical feedback you'll never get any better at your job.
Everybody has room for improvement--especially when you are just starting out. But it's impossible to improve when your boss is a control freak who would rather do everything herself than teach you what you're doing wrong.
One Small Step For Google, One Giant Leap For Empowering Girls To Code
With Google's $1 million backing and partnerships with well-known coding schools, girls have a better chance to break the tech ceiling.
Less than 1% of women going to college plan to major in computer science, according to the American Association of University Women. Those are bleak numbers.
July 5, 2014
10 Tech Trends That Are Too Big To See
Tectonic changes are coming. Are you ready?
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