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"Special" Muscle Can Promote Glucose and Fat Burning to Fuel Metabolism for Hours While Sitting - Neuroscience News From the same mind whose research propelled the notion that .sitting too much is not the same as exercising too little,. comes a groundbreaking discovery set to turn a sedentary lifestyle on its ear: The soleus muscle in the calf, though only 1% of your body weight, can do big things to improve the metabolic health in the rest of your body if activated correctly. Continued here

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4 Tactics that Backfire When Dealing with a Difficult Colleague When you’re at your wit’s end with a challenging colleague and it feels like you’ve tried everything, well-meaning friends and coworkers may tell you to “just ignore it” or to “suck it up” and move on with your life. But suppressing our emotions rarely helps. In this piece, the author outlines four tactics that are tempting to try — but often backfire — when dealing with a difficult colleague. Another one to avoid: waiting to see if your difficult colleague will just leave on their own. Your dream that they’ll walk out the door may come true, but there’s no guarantee that the culture will shift or that you’ll get along with their replacement. Ultimately you’re better off trying to create a workable situation with your colleague now. And remember: even small improvements can make a big difference. Continued here

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Moving a Family Business Beyond the Founder’s Vision To sustain a long-term family enterprise, it’s clear that having a founder who builds a great business is only the first step. As the legacy business and the entrepreneurial leadership of the founding generation gives way to the next generation, the business enters a transition to a new era where there are several related family owners, who often need to create a path to reconsider what business they are in, which goals to develop, and how they will do that. They must redefine the business and develop new opportunities for a new era. This transition requires members of the second and third generation to become entrepreneurs and pioneers in their own right. Their leadership is often less visible than that of the founder, but no less important. Continued here

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The Best Managers Are Leaders — and Vice Versa Most of the long-running debate over “leaders” vs. “managers” focuses on nouns when it should focus on verbs. Everyone needs both “leading” and “managing” in their work, and the best executives balance the two. Over the last 15 years, the author asked a thousand executives about the difference between leading and managing, recording their responses. The distinction remains interesting and important, but it’s healthier as a balance that every individual tries to strike instead of as two distinct skillsets or roles within an organization. Continued here

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India's high-stakes bid to join the global semiconductor race The factories outside Chennai, in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, are home to an array of global corporate names that lend credibility to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Make in India" campaign, which aims to turn Asia's third-largest economy into a workshop to the world.The state's industrial parks host international investors such as Renault-Nissan and Hyundai, which have large car factories; Dell makes computers there and Samsung produces TVs, washing machines and fridges. There are enough suppliers to Apple (including Taiwan's Foxconn and Pegatron, and the Finnish contract manufacturer Salcomp) that people in Tamil Nadu's business community commonly refer to the American tech group, which does not discuss its suppliers, as "the fruit company".Now India wants to take a step up the manufacturing value chain, with a high-stakes bid to begin making semiconductors. The Modi government has put $10bn of incentives on the table to tempt manufacturers to set up new "fabs" (semiconductor fabrication plants) and encourage investment in related sectors such as display glass. One plant is being planned in Tamil Nadu.India's ambition to enter the chipmaking business comes at a time of growing trade and geopolitical tension as western economies have pushed to decouple their supply chains from China, which has invested heavily to become a leader in the semiconductor industry. Continued here

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These 3-D Printing Drones Could Alter the Future of Construction Future construction sites could look vastly different due to new, flying 3-D printing technology. As opposed to plots of land packed with workers in neon-colored vests and goggles, these developments might one day be loaded with drones that are 3-D printing new buildings. Continued here

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How I Learned Confidence From Online Posers As a 42-year-old, newly single mom, I was a little insecure when I joined Match to meet a nice guy. I described myself as a feminist law professor, interested in liberal intellectuals within five years, plus or minus, of my age. The people who contacted me only eroded my confidence, however. I got cryptic messages from much older and more conservative high school grads, pictured on their motorcycles. These suitors and I ostensibly had nothing in common. When they liked, winked, or waved, they seemed not to have even skimmed my profile. Continued here

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Oh wow! How getting more awe can improve your life -- and even make you a nicer person A few years ago I went on a solo walking holiday to Lanzarote. On day one, I walked up a coastal hill path and came across a view I still see in my dreams. Huge ochre mountains pierced the sky. Craters of black sand and eerie green lagoons dotted the landscape. It was like Mars. My skin rippled with goosebumps. I was briefly, deliciously, insignificant. Continued here

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Supplements That Should Not Be Mixed There are some vitamins, minerals, and other supplements that should not be taken together. Find out which combinations might have adverse effects. Continued here

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Can science prevent a pandemic? For contagious disease scientists, 2022 started off with a bang — and it wasn’t just the fresh wave of Omicron infections. It was a preliminary study on another coronavirus found in bats, called NeoCoV. This virus is related to the lethal but rare Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), which has killed more than a third of everyone infected. Continued here

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How often do I need to stretch to really see results? Experts recommend stretching at least 2-3 times a week to increase flexibility and reduce pain. Continued here

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15 of NASA's Coolest Inventions That Regular People Use The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s does more than create ambitious telescopes that can see the beginning of time and send people to the moon and back. It’s also responsible for Michael Phelps’ swimsuit, LASIK surgery, and the selfie. The everyday products listed below are only 15 of the more than 2,000 consumer products NASA considers “spinoff technology” from the space program. They are all based on technology and discoveries either developed directly by NASA, in partnership with NASA, or through funding from NASA. Continued here

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The Exiled Dissident Fuelling the Hijab Protests in Iran Women from across Iran are pulling off their hijabs and lighting them on fire, flouting the country’s gray-bearded theocrats in dramatic scenes of a population struggling to set itself free. Of all the astonishments pouring forth from the Islamic Republic, perhaps the most remarkable is the fact that Iran was brought to this point, at least in part, by an unpaid forty-six-year-old mother working from an F.B.I. safehouse in New York City. Continued here

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Don’t Trash Your Old Phone—Give It a Second Life Sure, the first one I owned, which I purchased in 2017, had only 16GB of storage. And yes, I was forced to stop using it after a terrifying incident in which it refused to update to the latest iOS, even after I deleted nearly everything on it, which prevented me from installing the Ticketmaster app that I needed to enter a Harry Styles concert that I had flown to California by myself to attend. (Would you believe someone at the arena simply agreed to print the ticket out? I was crying.) After that, I bought a refurbished iPhone SE with 64GB of storage for $165. I eventually stopped using this one, because the camera was so bad that it was upsetting my friends. Also, a small part of the screen stopped working—right in the spot I had to press to switch the keyboard from letters to numbers, which meant I had no access to punctuation and came off, via text, as very cold. And I couldn’t log in to my bank account. Continued here

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Why south India outperforms the north Data shows that southern Indian states continue to outperform the rest of the country in health, education and economic opportunities. But what are the consequences of this phenomenon? Nilakantan R, a data scientist, finds out. Continued here

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Six recent discoveries that have changed how we think about human origins You may have heard science has reconsidered its view of Neanderthals but did you know human hybrid species played a key role in our evolution? Continued here

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Americans keep moving to where the water isn't Even with the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act — which, name aside, is the most ambitious piece of climate-related legislation ever passed by Congress — the US is locked into decades of rising temperatures and more extreme weather. Just how warm it will get will depend on how quickly we can reduce carbon emissions and how sensitive the climate proves to be, but average global temperature increases of between 2 and 3 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial norms seem most likely, with some regions experiencing much worse extremes. Continued here

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Brand new iPhone features that Android already has But we live in a competitive society, and so the one company that produces iOS-based phones and the myriad brands that make Android-based phones always feel that they need to explain why their product is more spectacular, more flexible, more secure, more fun, and more whatever than the ones powered by the other OS. As a result, whenever a company introduces a feature that’s new to its OS, it proclaims it as innovative, wonderful, and never seen before. Anyone who has attended or watched a product introduction — from Apple, Google, or Samsung — knows what I’m talking about. Continued here

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Facebook Engineers Admit They Don't Know What They Do With Your Data Earlier this year, Motherboard reported about an internal Facebook document that said the company has no idea where users’ data goes, and what the company is doing with it. During a previously sealed court hearing in March, two veteran Facebook engineers confirmed what the leaked document revealed. Continued here

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Surprise! Protons Contain a Subatomic Particle That's Heavier Than the Proton Itself Protons are particles that exist in the nucleus of all atoms, with their number defining the elements themselves. Protons, however, are not fundamental particles. Rather, they are composite particles made up of smaller subatomic particles, namely two “up quarks” and one “down quark” bound together by force-carrying particles  (bosons ) called “gluons.” Continued here

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Celtics suspend coach Udoka for 2022-23 season The Celtics have suspended coach Ime Udoka for the entirety of the 2022-23 season for violations of team policies, the franchise announced Thursday. The team added in a statement that “a decision about his future with the Celtics beyond this season will be made at a later date.”The second-year... Continued here

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The NBA Is Running From Responsibility With Its Robert Sarver Decision Adam Silver’s explanation for the punishment meted out to the Suns governor was just as lacking as the punishment itself. With training camps set to open, the league is hoping this mess will all go away. But will it? Continued here

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Why is Wine Country tourism so slow? 'You're out a few thousand dollars before you walk into a winery' Many Napa and Sonoma County business owners have described a slowdown, attributing it to a number of factors, including the surge in international travel and inflation. The costs of gas, airfare and lodging are all on the rise. Wine tasting fees have also gotten more expensive in Napa and Sonoma counties.  Continued here

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Job Insecurity Harms Both Employees and Employers Despite the well-documented negative effects of job insecurity on workers’ well-being, many employers continue to intentionally stoke fears of job loss among their workforce, under the assumption that this can motivate workers and reduce costs. But is this approach actually effective? The authors conducted a series of surveys with more than 600 American employees and found that while job insecure workers may indeed be motivated to try to improve their performance and adhere more closely to company policies, the stress, frustration, resentment, and exhaustion associated with this insecurity create a cognitive load that counteracts any positive effect on performance or rule-following. Job insecure workers are also more likely to focus on making their contributions visible rather than on actually doing valuable work, and some even hide information or intentionally sabotage their coworkers to make themselves look better in comparison. Worse yet, many of these behaviors spark vicious cycles that further reduce perceptions of job security. As such, the authors argue that fostering a sense of job insecurity isn’t just cruel — it’s often counterproductive. Continued here

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How to Develop a Strong Work Ethic In our early career years, it can be challenging to figure out what behaviors are and are not acceptable in different professional environments. Employers are now expecting more of entry-level workers and they want to see that you have good work ethic. So what is work ethic? Continued here

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Everybody feels overextended at work When I reached out to Paige to talk about a post she’d written online about feeling stretched at work, she first had a question for me: Was I her boss secretly trying to trick her? She was a “little paranoid” about it, and rightly so — the Oregon receptionist has not exactly had the warmest feelings about her place of work lately. Continued here

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Just Like That, We're Making Oxygen on Mars Millions of miles away on Mars, in a barren crater just north of the equator, a rover is wandering around, carrying a gold-coated gadget the size of a toaster. The machine inhales the Martian air and strips away contaminants. It splits the atmospheric gas into constituent parts, takes what it needs, and then reassembles that blend to create something that is in very short supply on Mars: oxygen. Real, breathable oxygen, the kind you took in as you read these sentences. Continued here

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4 ways to make your workout actually fun, according to behavioral scientists : Life Kit Last December, Michael Garcia started going to his local Dave & Buster's in Gaithersburg, Md., to play an arcade game called Pump It Up. Players move their bodies to the rhythm of the music as colored arrows light up on a platform beneath their feet. As the levels advance, the beats get faster and more complicated. Continued here

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Could the Internet Archive Go Out Like Napster? Many fear a lawsuit from early in the pandemic could destroy the Internet Archive. Here’s what’s really going on. Continued here

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Can Artificial Intelligence Invent Things? A Curious Legal Case Could Have Big Implications for Business Behind the legal effort to register an artificial intelligence device as an inventor, in a case that could have implications for the pharmaceuticals and other industries that rely on AI. Continued here

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The Mental Load of Being a Sandwich Generation Caregiver Nearly a quarter of parents find themselves struggling as part of the sandwich generation, caught in a squeeze and an embrace as they tackle caring for both their own parents and their kids. Continued here

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Human Trafficking’s Newest Abuse: Forcing Victims Into Cyberscamming The ads on the Telegram messaging service’s White Shark Channel this summer had the matter-of-fact tone and clipped phrasing you might find on a Craigslist posting. But this Chinese-language forum, which had some 5,700 users, wasn’t selling used Pelotons or cleaning services. It was selling human beings — in particular, human beings in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, and other cities in southeast Asia. Continued here

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Both Introverts and Extraverts Get Exhausted from Too Much Socializing Having an active social life is one of the strongest predictors of longevity and good health. Human connection is one of the most fundamental and important human drives. But it can also be our most tiring! Quick question: raise your hand if you ever get tired after talking to too many people. Did you raise your hand? Congrats: you’re human! Continued here

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How to Cope With Anticipatory Grief Grieving is hard and complicated after a loss, but some people may find themselves dealing with anticipatory grief, which is grief that comes before a loss. Anticipatory grief can happen in situations such as when a friend or family member has been diagnosed with a terminal illness—when a loss is known to be coming, but it hasn’t happened yet. Continued here

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Clues in Caves Suggest Drought May Have Brought Down India's Mughal Empire In a remote cave in northeast India, rainwater has slowly dripped from the ceiling in the same spots for over 1,000 years. With each drop, minerals in the water accumulate on the floor below, slowly growing into calcium carbonate towers known as stalagmites. These stalagmites are more than geological wonders—like tree rings, their layers record the region’s rainfall history. They also carry a warning about the potential for catastrophic multiyear droughts in the future. Continued here

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How Wine Miraculously Flowed Through This Town's Water Taps for a Few Glorious Hours Vinotherapy sounds like a nice night with a bottle of Burgundy by yourself, but it's actually a real treatment offered at spas, primarily in Italy. The idea is to use the byproducts of wine—like grapes' stems, skins, and seeds, which are high in antioxidants—to supposedly reduce aging, relieve pain, and even stimulate cell growth. Continued here

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Why corporate America broke up with design In 2005, the future of American business was reflected in the spotless tile behind a toilet bowl. Procter & Gamble had released the Mr. Clean Magic Reach, a sleek tool with a detachable head for scrubbing the darkest recesses of a bathroom. Developed in just 18 months, it represented a strategic move to elevate design throughout P&G, an effort that then CEO A.G. Lafley had spearheaded with an almost religious fervor. “Remember that one of the disciples had to put his hand in the bloody wounds to believe,” he told a reporter at the time, comparing the design skeptics within various divisions of the company to an incredulous apostle. “We have some businesses that are doubting Thomases.” His conviction paid off. P&G’s sales doubled and profits quadrupled between 2000 and 2009, aided by the steady release of new, design-forward products. Continued here

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Solar Roofs, Miyawaki Forests: The Officer Who Transformed Ahmedabad Railway Station “The Ahmedabad division is among the top performing divisions in the Indian Railways in terms of loading, passenger transportation, etc. But it was lagging behind when it came to sustainable environmental management. I decided to implement plans for waste management, pollution control to bring it to a level where it shines in all aspects,” he says.  Continued here

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5 common (but dangerous) pieces of career advice When you’re growing your career or advancing in your role, good advice from a trusted mentor can be motivating and inspiring. But what about the bad advice you’re also bound to receive? Whether people mean well or are just plain critical, judgements people share about you can be disorienting, distressing, and disheartening. Continued here

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The sleep advice no one tells you If you’ve ever had a terrible, or even middling, night’s slumber — which studies and surveys suggest is a fair number of people — you’re well aware of the effects of poor sleep. Aside from the sluggishness and lethargy, lack of sufficient shut-eye can blunt thinking and reaction time and negatively impacts judgment. Long-term sleep deprivation has been linked with higher likelihoods of depressive moods, anxiety, diabetes, and obesity. Continued here

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These sites offer thousands of free online classes on just about everything That’s the catch, though it’s a small one. Auditing a course means you miss out on tests, quizzes, and certain course materials. However, you can pay in order to get real-life course credit. Course costs can run into the thousands, just like real-life school. But if you’re looking to absorb and retain material, and don’t mind not be tested on it, this is a great place to start. Continued here

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The Anarchy: The Real Civil War That Inspired 'House of the Dragon' To the best of our knowledge, the Middle Ages weren’t crawling with ice zombies, dragons, and platinum blonde wigs. But despite these creative liberties, the medieval fantasy Game of Thrones has always had a foothold in history—as evidenced by the iconic “Red Wedding” episode, which drew heavily from actual Scottish massacres. According to George R.R. Martin, author of the A Song of Ice and Fire book series, the latest installment in the GoT universe, HBO’s prequel series House of the Dragon, draws from real-life events, too. More specifically: from a violent time in 12th century England that pit the king’s nephew against a princess. Continued here

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Small-Market Teams Are Paying Big Prices to Go All In It’s not just the big markets making blockbuster trades anymore. Atlanta, Minnesota, and now Cleveland have all mortgaged their futures this offseason to land a star player. Continued here

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Winners and Losers of NFL Week 3 The Dolphins are once again big NFL winners, and not just because they brought us the Butt Punt. Meanwhile, Trevor Lawrence is on a hot streak, the Raiders are unofficially eliminated, and a reminder that the house always wins. Continued here

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The Psychology of Cringe Comedy: Why We Love to Watch What Hurts Us From ‘Da Ali G Show’ to viral TikTok videos, cringe comedy persists within pop culture. And oftentimes, the genre’s appeal is as much about the way we perceive ourselves as the comics we watch performing it. Continued here

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The World-building of 'The Rings of Power' Is Unmatched on Television The ‘Lord of the Rings’ series establishes a new imagining of Middle-earth that feels just as expansive and lived-in as Peter Jackson’s film trilogy Continued here

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A Guide to Lay's Chinese Potato Chips Once upon a time, I adored Lay’s barbecue flavor potato chips so much that I could happily finish a bag by myself in one go. My mother soon became so irritated with her otherwise perfect daughter that she banished them from our home, so I’d pester my grandparents into keeping bags on hand for our weekly visits. Continued here

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The first cards for Lorcana, Disney's answer to Magic: The Gathering, are spectacular The first cards for Disney Lorcana, the ambitious new trading card game from Ravensburger, arrived today at the D23 convention in Anaheim, California. They include seven characters from across Disney’s nearly 100-year history of pop culture dominance — as well as one card of Mickey Mouse himself exclusive to the convention. Continued here

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Why do we multitask while gaming? We also have more content than ever before: Podcasts, live streams, YouTubers and TikTok influencers publishing everyday. More and more streaming platforms are filling their libraries with binge-able series that are perfect for semi-paying attention to. These more ubiquitous “second screens” and more content to engage with are certainly culprits for the increase in media multitasking, but what about the games themselves? Is there something about the games of today that makes us less likely to fully pay attention to them? Continued here

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Russia's mobilization won't fix its military problems Russian President Vladimir Putin this week announced that 300,000 more men would need to fight in his increasingly difficult and costly war in Ukraine. But amid Ukrainian victories, major strategic and personnel problems in the Russian armed forces, and domestic frustrations over the mobilization announcement, whether Putin can accomplish his goals in Ukraine — and the nature of those goals at this stage — isn’t clear. Continued here

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The rise of Giorgia Meloni, Italy's new far-right prime minister, explained Meloni’s rise to power and the retrenchment of far-right populism within her coalition is in some ways a resurgence and galvanization of far-right sentiment that Italian politics and political parties have never truly reckoned with. Despite Meloni’s and other right-wing figures’ insistence to the contrary — and despite the brutality of Mussolini’s fascist movement in Italy and across Europe — his influence never completely receded from Italian politics. Continued here

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Inside Vietnam's Whale Temples The strong afternoon sun bears down on the coastal town of Can Thanh in southern Vietnam, but inside Lăng Ông Thủy Tướng—a single-story, pale-yellow building on the town’s shoreline—it is cool. Diffused sunlight illuminates the main hall, and the air is laden with the woody aroma of burning incense. A lone man, most likely a fisherman, enters the hall, walks toward a 20-meter baleen whale skeleton displayed in a glass case, and folds his hands in deep reverence. Continued here

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Stop Feeling Guilty About Delegating Overriding guilt around delegation is not easy. Especially when you and your team are already time-strapped, it can feel misguided to invest in delegating. But remember this investment will unlock longer-term benefits: time savings and more capable, engaged employees. In this piece, the author offers five strategies to help you delegate more often and with less guilt. Continued here

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Will China’s Internet Giants Conquer the World? You could say last year was a good year for China’s internet titans. E-commerce behemoths Alibaba and JD.com notched a record US$139 billion in sales on Single’s Day, the world’s largest shopping event. Social media phenomenon TikTok, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, was the world’s most downloaded app, overtaking previous favourite WhatsApp. Tencent, the biggest social networking and gaming company in China, reported a 16 percent year-on-year rise in revenue, to 560 billion yuan. Continued here

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How to Talk to an Employee Who Isn’t Meeting Their Goals Having to tell someone that they’re not meeting their work standards can get awkward fast. Luckily, simply asking them to evaluate themselves can do a lot of the work for you. If they can spot the problems on their own, it saves you a lot of trouble. If not, make sure that your goals and visions are aligned. State the non-negotiables and how it can help them further their career. Be clear about your employee’s failings by describing specific examples and behaviors you observed, giving them guidelines about how they can get back on track. Ask them to create an improvement plan and then review together, filling any gaps they might have missed, setting deadlines, and explaining repercussions if the goals are not met. Confrontation about shortcomings is much easier when it’s done with a shared vision, clear expectations, and a plan to move forward. Continued here