I was coaching Sanjay, a leader in a technology firm who felt stuck and frustrated. He wasn’t where he wanted to be at this point in his career. He had come to our coaching session, as usual, prepared to discuss the challenges he was currently facing. This time, it was his plan for conducting compensation…Συνέχεια ανάγνωσης You Need to Practice Being Your Future Self
You Can Improve Your Default Response to Stress
One morning while anchoring The Early Show in New York, one of my co-anchors got mixed up and tossed the show to me five minutes before I was slated to appear for my next segment, which was covering breaking news on political corruption in Washington. The teleprompter was cued to a different story, which, if I remember…Συνέχεια ανάγνωσης You Can Improve Your Default Response to Stress
The costs of inequality: When a fair shake isn’t
First in a series on what Harvard scholars are doing to identify and understand inequality, in seeking solutions to one of America’s most vexing problems. It’s a seemingly nondescript chart, buried in a Harvard Business School (HBS) professor’s academic paper. A rectangle, divided into parts, depicts U.S. wealth for each fifth of the population. But…Συνέχεια ανάγνωσης The costs of inequality: When a fair shake isn’t
5 Strategy Questions Every Leader Should Make Time For
Have you ever noticed that when you ask someone in your company, “How are you?” they are more likely to answer “Busy!” than “Very well, thank you”? That is because the norm in most companies is that you are supposed to be very busy – or otherwise at least pretend to be – because otherwise…Συνέχεια ανάγνωσης 5 Strategy Questions Every Leader Should Make Time For
Why Curious People Are Destined for the C-Suite
When asked recently to name the one attribute CEOs will need most to succeed in the turbulent times ahead, Michael Dell, the chief executive of Dell, Inc., replied, “I would place my bet on curiosity.” Dell was responding to a 2015 PwC survey of more than a thousand CEOs, a number of whom cited…Συνέχεια ανάγνωσης Why Curious People Are Destined for the C-Suite
ΠΟΣΟ ΚΑΛΑ ΓΝΩΡΙΖΕΤΕ ΤΗΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΚΡΙΣΗ;
Crisis Quiz: test your inner Greek geek With the long, tortured path to a third Greek bailout entering its final stretch, it is time for those who think they understand the five-year-old Greek crisis to show just how closely they have been following events. Match your wits with other crisis devotees in the FT’s…Συνέχεια ανάγνωσης ΠΟΣΟ ΚΑΛΑ ΓΝΩΡΙΖΕΤΕ ΤΗΝ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΚΡΙΣΗ;
Starbucks Profit Jumps 22%
The global obsession with coffee shows no signs of abating, propelling sales and profits at the world’s most ubiquitous coffee chain, Starbucks. In the quarter that ended June 28, sales in Starbucks stores open at least a year climbed 7 percent, thanks in large part to a strong increase in customer traffic that Howard D.…Συνέχεια ανάγνωσης Starbucks Profit Jumps 22%
Your phone knows how you feel
Scientists are using cellphone data to track everything from depression and mood disorders to crowd behavior. On a difficult day, the patient’s data stream includes very few pings. Her GPS sensor shows her going slowly from the bedroom to the bathroom and back again. She does not check email, but does watch four hours of Netflix. No phone calls…Συνέχεια ανάγνωσης Your phone knows how you feel
We are data: the future of machine intelligence
I look at apps like Grindr and Tinder and see how they’ve rewritten sex culture — by creating a sexual landscape filled with vast amounts of incredibly graphic site-specific data — and I can’t help but wonder why there isn’t an app out there that rewrites political culture in the same manner. I don’t think there…Συνέχεια ανάγνωσης We are data: the future of machine intelligence
Steve Wozniak: The Future of AI Is ‘Scary and Very Bad for People’
We should all be getting a litttttle nervous: The robot apocalypse is brewing. Or at least, that’s what a growing number of tech visionaries are predicting. In an interview with the The Australian Financial Review, Apple co-founder and programming whiz Steve Wozniak added his own grave predictions about artificial intelligence’s detrimental impact on the future…Συνέχεια ανάγνωσης Steve Wozniak: The Future of AI Is ‘Scary and Very Bad for People’
