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How To Survive Working On An Underperforming Team
Many of us enter the workplace unprepared for teamwork. Here’s how to head off and contain the hazards of poor group performance.
In general, people are poorly educated to deal with workplaces. That’s because education is a largely solo affair. Students are asked to work alone. Grades are given to individuals. Indeed, the idea of individual achievement is so ingrained that when kids are assigned a group project in school, they worry how their own grades will be calculated if their team members fall down on the job.
Why The Gender Wage Gap Might Ruin The Future U.S. Economy
Women earning less over the course of their careers could spell poverty in retirement—and affect the entire U.S. economy.
Just ahead of Equal Pay Day (coming up on April 12) Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.), ranking member of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC) released a new report that takes another hard look at the gender pay gap and its long-term effects on women, their families, and the economy.
Inside Bernie Sanders’s Social Media Machine
From #FeeltheBern to Slack: The man behind Bernie Sanders’s social media agency talks the tools, techniques, and missteps of their campaign.
Ask most any political pundit a year ago who the 2016 Democratic nominee for president would be and virtually all of them would have told you that Hillary Clinton had the lock. But then something unexpected started happening: Bernie Sanders, the relatively unknown Independent senator from Vermont who was 60 to 70 points behind Clinton started attracting massive crowds to his burgeoning campaign.
5 Habits To Get Over Self-Limiting Beliefs
“Iceberg beliefs”—self-limiting, below-the-surface doubts—could be major obstacles to your success. Here’s how to overcome them.
Sometimes the biggest thing holding you back from greater success is something you might not even be aware of.
Your Future Home Will Be Designed For Sharing (By Airbnb)
The rental company is considering the next step: designing spaces made specifically for homeowners who want to easily rent out spare rooms.
Joe Gebbia, Airbnb’s cofounder and chief product officer, likes to observe the simple ways that Airbnb hosts “hack” their homes in order to take on guests. He stayed with one New York City mother who had a bunk bed in her son’s room, so she could rent the master bedroom. Others build extra storage space, for sheets and towels and the like, or install electronic locks. He has a list of more than 50 examples made by talking with Airbnb hosts around the world.
“Catastrophe” Star Sharon Horgan On Writing Roles For Herself Nobody Else Was Writing
The creator/star of Catastrophe talks about how her writing career began, collaborating with Rob Delaney, and why she is now spoiled.
To have any chance of finding characters she actually wanted to play, Sharon Horgan discovered early on that she’d have to write them herself.
Fisher-Price Taps Jonathan Adler To Make Baby Gear Chic
Leave it to Adler to make toys as beautiful as home decor.
Fisher-Price might be known for some of the world’s most iconic toys, but sales have stagnated. So Mattel, Fisher-Price’s parent company, has enlisted star designer Jonathan Adler as creative director to reimagine the line as “happy chic” home decor. Adler will debut his first Fisher-Price toys, baby gear, infant clothing, and bedding for the company in 2017.
Messenger Chatbots Likely To Top The Agenda At Facebook’s F8 This Week
Other big topics will include Instant Articles, Live Video, 360 Video, and much more.
When more than 2,000 people descend on San Francisco this week for Facebook’s annual two-day F8 developers conference, their discussions and decisions will have a huge impact on how you and 1.59 billion other people around the world use the social network. Topping the bill, by all accounts, is the company’s foray into chatbots that allow users to order products directly through Messenger.
