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For Young Female Coders, Internship Interviews Can Be Toxic
www.wired.com Aug 22, 2019
In 2018, Mei'lani Eyre, an 18-year-old computer science student at Cascadia College in Washington state, was in the middle of a phone interview with a hot shot Y Combinator-funded tech company, when the interviewer barked at her to stop talking and...
Coaching for Change
hbr.org Aug 20, 2019
Change is hard. Ask anyone who has tried to switch careers, develop a new skill, improve a relationship, or break a bad habit. And yet for most people change will at some point be necessarya critical step toward fulfilling their potential and...
What Wellness Programs Dont Do for Workers
hbr.org Aug 14, 2019
The idea of employee wellness is not new, but it has not always been an $8 billion industry in which employer-subsidized fitness memberships, meditation classes, and catered meals are the norm. In 1864, the Pennsylvania Mine Safety Act was codified...
DeepMind's Losses and the Future of Artificial Intelligence
www.wired.com Aug 14, 2019
Alphabets DeepMind lost $572 million last year. What does it mean? DeepMind, likely the worlds largest research-focused artificial intelligence operation, is losing a lot of money fast, more than $1 billion in the past three years. DeepMind also...
How a 'NULL' License Plate Landed One Hacker in Ticket Hell
www.wired.com Aug 14, 2019
Joseph Tartaro never meant to cause this much trouble. Especially for himself. In late 2016, Tartaro decided to get a vanity license plate. A security researcher by trade, he ticked down possibilities that related to his work: SEGFAULT, maybe, or...
Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech
www.wired.com Aug 13, 2019
On a bright Monday in January 2017, at 2:30 in the afternoon, about a thousand Google employeeshorrified, alarmed, and a little giddybegan pouring out of the company's offices in Mountain View, California. They packed themselves into a cheerful...
Great Mentors Focus on the Whole Person, Not Just Their Career
hbr.org Aug 9, 2019
Aspiring leaders need more and better mentoring than theyre getting today. According to a recent study, the supply-demand imbalance is severe:  while more than 75% of professional men and women want to have a mentor, only 37% have one.  Whats...
Using Algorithms to Understand the Biases in Your Organization
hbr.org Aug 9, 2019
Algorithms have taken a lot of heat recently for producing biased decisions. People are outraged over a recruiting algorithm Amazon was developing that overlooked female job applicants. Likewise, they are outraged over predictive policing and...
Ecosystem Businesses Are Changing the Rules of Strategy
hbr.org Aug 8, 2019
Why are business ecosystems suddenly such a hot topic? Its not as though theyre a new idea. The term ecosystem has been used in business for 20 years. Companies including Volkswagen and Toyota have been orchestrating huge networks of suppliers...
Why Women and People of Color in Law Still Hear You Dont Look Like a Lawyer
hbr.org Aug 8, 2019
There are certain unspoken rules of success in corporate America, not least of which is looking the part. That often means tailored suits, a certain range of coiffed hair styles, and other accoutrements or signals of success. In the legal field,...
How Ava DuVernay Is Finding Blue Oceans in Hollywood
hbr.org Aug 7, 2019
Nine years ago, Ava DuVernay was a publicist. Today she is a breakout director, with her revolutionary When They See Us Netflix series reaching 23 million accounts in the first few weeks after its release and receiving 16 Emmy Award nominations....
What Men Can Do to Be Better Mentors and Sponsors to Women
hbr.org Aug 7, 2019
Advocating for womens advancement at work is integral for improving financial results, gender balance, and diversity in our workplaces and leadership teams. Yet data from the Working Mother Research Institute finds that, while 48% of men say they...
SpaceILs Crashed Spacecraft Spilled Tardigrades on the Moon
www.wired.com Aug 5, 2019
It was just before midnight on April 11 and everyone at the Israel Aerospace Industries mission control center in Yehud, Israel had their eyes fixed on two large projector screens. On the left screen was a stream of data being sent back to Earth by...
Dont Put a Digital Expert in Charge of Your Digital Transformation
hbr.org Aug 5, 2019
Who should you pick to lead your companys digital transformation?  Imagine you have a choice of three candidates: Which would you pick? Most of the executives we survey pick Sarah, the digital guru. But is that the right choice? Consider the...
Digital Textbooks Are Forcing a Radical Shift in Higher Ed
www.wired.com Aug 4, 2019
Digital-first. Open source. Subscription. The way textbooks are bought and sold is changingwith serious implications for higher education. For several decades, textbook publishers followed the same basic model: Pitch a hefty tome of knowledge to...
John Ratcliffe Is a Dangerous Pick for Director of National Intelligence
www.wired.com Jul 30, 2019
The presidents intent to nominate Robert Muellers chief Capitol Hill inquisitor to head the nations intelligence community might just be the Trump administrations most alarming personnel decision yeteven in an administration whose list of...
To Be Happier at Work, Invest More in Your Relationships
hbr.org Jul 30, 2019
What’s the secret to a fulfilling career? Most advice focuses on finding purpose and satisfaction in your work. If you can just land the perfect job doing meaningful work, you’ll finally be happy. But my research across a wide range of...
How to Do Strategic Planning Like a Futurist
hbr.org Jul 30, 2019
I recently helped a large industrial manufacturing company with its strategic planning process. With so much uncertainty surrounding autonomous vehicles, 5G, robotics, global trade, and the oil markets, the company’s senior leaders needed a set of...
How I Managed High-Stakes Crises at the Pentagon
hbr.org Jul 29, 2019
On an early Sunday morning in October 2015, I was flying overseas aboard the U.S. Department of Defense’s specially equipped 747 when the first video images of an attack on a medical clinic in Kunduz, Afghanistan, started airing around the world....
You Just Lost Your Temper at Work. Now What?
hbr.org Jul 26, 2019
Let’s face it, work can be stressful. Whether the stress comes from your boss, your coworkers, or your workload, the pressure can get to be too much. After one particularly frustrating meeting, you blow up at a colleague and lose your temper. You...
Your AI Efforts Won’t Succeed Unless They Benefit Employees
hbr.org Jul 25, 2019
Automation and AI are often perceived by companies who leverage them as an important source of labor productivity. Many workers in such companies, however, tend to see the adoption of these and other technologies as putting their jobs in jeopardy...
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