What Nature Can Teach Us About Building Adaptable Businesses

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What Nature Can Teach Us About Building Adaptable Businesses   Agile leaders embrace the tension between the predictable and innovative. Continued here

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Delta Air Lines Made a Heartfelt Film About Its People and It's Something Every Leader Should Watch   The past few years offer important lessons for every business. Continued here

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Why Seth Goldman's Mentor Told Him to Build Honest Tea Like He'd Never Sell   With the launch of his new venture, Goldman's finally taking Timberland CEO Jeffrey Swartz's advice--two decades later. Continued here

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Ozone Treaty Delayed Arctic Melting by 15 Years   The Montreal Protocol was intended to save Earth’s ozone layer, but it also helped slow global warming and delayed the melting of Arctic sea iceCLIMATEWIRE | The 1987 Montreal Protocol is known best for saving the ozone layer. Now scientists say it also delayed the disappearance of Arctic sea ice. Continued here

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My Generation is Super Burned Out -- But We Don't Have to Be   Here in India, most new grads land their first jobs at college career fairs. Businesses come in, present what they’re all about, do some interviews, and roll out offers. But no jobs at the fair seemed to fit my skills. I landed my first role in publishing through a referral. My friend had promised the company that I was worth it: curious, smart, determined. Continued here

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Ongoing Development Is Part of the Colorado River Problem   Using “slow water” methods can make the Colorado River Basin and its people more resilientThe water shortage in the Colorado River basin threatens 40 million people and five million acres of farmland from Mexico to Wyoming. Many people are calling this a disaster, but that makes it seem like a force majure. It’s not just climate change that’s causing low flows: industrial agriculture, urban sprawl and the concrete infrastructure designed to control water are worsening the region’s water problems. And bringing in water from elsewhere won’t fix it. Continued here

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There Are 6 Kinds of Wealth. If You're Not Considering All of Them, You'll Never Be Wealthy   If you think your wealth and your net worth are equivalent, you're making a serious mistake. Continued here

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How Emotionally   Getting frustrated, angry, or upset because you're feeling frustrated, angry, or upset? Science says try a little acceptance, and reframing. Continued here

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Soft 'Electronic Skin' Mimics Our Sense of Touch   A flexible, conductive membrane that can pass sensory information to the brain and muscles is a step towards artificial skinResearchers have developed an electronic skin that can mimic the same process that causes a finger, toe or limb to move when poked or scalded. The technology could lead to the development of a covering for prosthetic limbs that would give their wearers a sense of touch, or help to restore sensation in people whose skin has been damaged. Continued here

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Is E.T. Eavesdropping on Our Phone Calls?   Ever worry about shadowy forces tapping into your phone calls and listening in on your private conversations? Well, astronomers have some good news for you: It won’t be aliens with their ears (or whatever auditory sensory organs they evolved) to the speaker getting into your business.At least, not yet. Unless they’ve done a lot better than we have funding radio astronomers. And only if they’re really close by. Continued here

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My Former Employee Is Badmouthing Me to My Staff   Can I set the record straight with my employees? Continued here

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My Advice to Graduates: All Bets Are Off   Making graduation speeches used to be fairly conventional. But change is so rapid that the old rules no longer apply. Good luck, kids. Continued here

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When You're Disillusioned at Work, Quitting Isn't the Only Option   Seventy-seven percent of Gen Z say they’re searching for a new role. As many in this group worry about job security, as well as college debt, inflation, and a recession, they feel disengaged and frustrated in their current roles. If you’re among them and considering quitting, know that it’s not your only option. And while leaving a company is the right choice in a toxic situation, if you’re quitting to avoid confronting a difficult situation, it won’t serve you in the long run. The authors offer three strategies for Gen Z to work through these challenges to create positive change at work: Continued here

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The Entrepreneurial Journey of China's First Private Mental Health Hospital   The city of Wenzhou in southeastern China is home to the country’s largest privately owned mental health hospital group, the Wenzhou Kangning Hospital Co, Ltd. It’s an example of the extraordinary entrepreneurship happening in China’s healthcare space. But after its successful initial public offering (IPO), how will the hospital grow in the future? Continued here

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How Generative AI Could Disrupt Creative Work   In the face of technological change, creativity is often held up as a uniquely human quality, less vulnerable to the forces of technological disruption and critical for the future. Today however, generative AI applications such as ChatGPT and Midjourney are threatening to upend this special status and significantly alter creative work, both independent and salaried. The authors explore three non-exclusive scenarios for this disruption of content creation: 1) people use AI to augment their work, leading to greater productivity, 2) generative AI creates a flood of cheap content that drives out human creatives, and 3) human-made creative work demands a premium. Continued here

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Diversity in Tech is a Problem. Here's How to Empower Yourself.   People naturally connect with those who resemble themselves, and if you are the “different” one on a new team, you may come up against barriers or be overlooked. This is especially true in the tech sector, where women and communities of color make up a very small portion of the workforce. If you are from a community that is underrepresented in tech and interested in joining the sector, here’s how to leverage your differences as the assets they are and empower yourself as a worker in (or entering) the field. Continued here

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Are You Cut Out to Be an Entrepreneur?   The most successful entrepreneurs have customer empathy. In order to build a product that has a strong market demand, you need to have a deep understanding of the problems your customers are trying to solve and offer them a viable solution. This sensibility is critical to successfully launching any startup. Continued here

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Move slow and break things: How Nepal's bureaucracy is hurting its startup industry   In 2021, Nepal’s electric vehicle sector had its big moment when a homegrown startup introduced an EV bike that had been designed, developed, and produced in the country. The P1 bike from Yatri Motorcycles — a company founded by cousins Ashim Pandey and Batsal Pandey — was celebrated by local media. To date, it has sold 85 units. But soon after the launch, Nepal’s traffic police started impounding these bikes because they didn’t carry government-issued license plates. Instead, their custom plates featured the acronym “YDS” — for Yatri Design Studio. It was an entirely new problem: Nepal’s lawmakers had never anticipated that vehicles could be manufactured locally, so the country’s arcane laws only allowed registration for imported vehicles. Continued here

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Gorillas' Resilience after Early-Life Trauma Holds Lessons for Humans   A young mountain gorilla who is able to survive the tough early years may live as long or longer than peers who coasted through their youth without incidentWhether you’re a human or an elephant, a baboon or a fish, adversity experienced early in life is often linked to negative effects on longevity and health in adulthood. But this tendency, seen across the animal kingdom, seems to have at least one exception: mountain gorillas. So long as young gorillas who experience adversity make it past the age of six, they will go on to lead lives just as long as their untraumatized peers, researchers reported on May 15 in Current Biology. Continued here

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There's Finally a Way to Secure a Crucial Piece of the Cloud   As software supply-chain attacks have emerged as an everyday threat, where bad actors poison a step in the development or distribution process, the tech industry has had a wake-up call about the need to secure each link in the chain. But actually implementing improvements is challenging, particularly for the sprawling open-source cloud development ecosystem. Now, the security firm Chainguard says it has a more secure solution for one ubiquitous but long overlooked component."Container registries" are sort of like app stores or clearinghouses where developers upload "images" of cloud containers that each hold a different software program. The cloud services you use every day are constantly and silently navigating container registries to access applications, but these registries are often poorly secured with just a password that can be lost, stolen, or guessed. This often means that people who shouldn't have access to a given container image can download it, or, worse, they can upload images to the registry that could be malicious. Chainguard's new container image registry aims to plug this esoteric but pervasive hole. Continued here

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3 Cringey Phrases to Never Say to Employees   A new survey shows that employees want 'genuine and honest' communication at work instead of vague, empathetic statements. Continued here

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When Great Minds Don't Think Alike   As organizations strive to make their workforces more diverse with respect to race, gender equity, and people with disabilities, leaders need to apply these same strategies to employees with different kinds of minds. The author, who has more than 50 years of experience in industry and academia, explains how she processes information as a visual thinker and shares how business leaders can harness the power of different kinds of thinkers. Doing so will increase creativity, ignite problem solving, and lead to more cohesive workplaces. Continued here

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These Are the Most Bizarre Numbers in the Universe   What is the most bizarre real number that you can imagine? Probably many people think of an irrational number such as pi (π) or Euler’s number. And indeed, such values can be considered “wild.” After all, their decimal representation is infinite, with no digits ever repeating. Even such bonkers-looking numbers, however, together with all the rational numbers, make up only a tiny fraction of the real numbers, or numbers that can appear along a number line. (As a reminder, these are the kinds of numbers that can be used in all manner of familiar measurements, including time, temperature and distance.)But it turns out that if you happened to pick out a number at random on a number line, you would almost certainly draw a “noncomputable” number. For such values, there is no way to determine them precisely. Continued here

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The Dunning-Kruger Effect Isn't What You Think It Is   The least skilled people know how much they don't know, but everyone thinks they are better than averageThe following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Continued here

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Gus Worland: Is someone you love suffering in silence? Here's what to do   Lots of people talk about the need to be physically fit, but mentally fit? Not as much. In a powerful talk, mental health advocate Gus Worland shares how an experience of deep grief from his own life sparked his mission to advocate for suicide prevention -- and shows why "looking after your own village" can be as simple as sending a text message, right now, to the person you cannot imagine living without. Continued here

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The 15 Best Shows on Apple TV+ Right Now   Slowly but surely Apple TV+ is finding its feet. The streaming service, which at launch we called “odd, angsty, and horny as hell,” has evolved into a diverse library of dramas, documentaries, and comedies. It’s also fairly cheap compared to services like Netflix—and Apple often throws in three free months when you buy a new iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple TV.Curious but don’t know where to get started? Below are our picks for the best shows on the service. (Also, our picks for the best movies on Apple TV+ are here.) When you’re done, head over to our guides to the best shows on Netflix, best movies on Hulu, and best movies on Amazon Prime, because you can never have too much television. Continued here

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4 CEO Strategies Turned a Brilliant Idea Into a $6 Billion Company    Solve a painful problem better than the competition, build your company to last beyond your tenure as CEO, invent with prudent paranoia, go global. Continued here

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Adobe Photoshop's new "Generative Fill" AI tool lets you manipulate photos with text   On Tuesday, Adobe added a new tool to its Photoshop beta called "Generative Fill," which uses cloud-based image synthesis to fill selected areas of an image with new AI-generated content based on a text description. Powered by Adobe Firefly, Generative Fill works similarly to a technique called "inpainting" used in DALL-E and Stable Diffusion releases since last year. Continued here

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Stop Looking for the Perfect Job   One of the first things we learn about people is what they do for a living. But the link between work and identify has moved far beyond that, especially in certain industries, geographies, and cultures. Many of us put everything we have into our jobs, expecting our careers to fulfill us. Author Simone Stolzoff argues for a different approach. He wants us to find work that keeps us engaged and gives us the security we need, while still allowing us to define ourselves in other ways. Drawing on research and real-life stories, he explains what it means to have a “good enough” job, and why this shift in thinking could be good not just for individuals but also for teams and organizations. Stolzoff is the author of The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work. Continued here

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Foresight: The mental talent that shaped the world   At the start of 2020, a mother and her two daughters in Krefeld, Germany, wrote New Year's wishes on six paper lanterns and let them fly. The sight of slowly-ascending sky lanterns, lit by candles inside, has beguiled people through the ages. Yet when this family were imagining their future, they did not anticipate what would happen later that night.The lanterns drifted away, and eventually reached the ape house of the Krefeld Zoo. The flames inside the lanterns set the buildings alight – leaving dozens of primates, including two gorillas, five orangutans, and one chimpanzee, to die in the ensuing blaze. Continued here

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Where to Focus Your Company's Limited Cybersecurity Budget   With the threat of recession looming, chief information security officers (CISOs) will increasingly see cybersecurity budgets constrained. So how can companies focus their limited cybersecurity investments on the controls that matter most? This article breaks cybersecurity investments into three categories: 1) controls that defend against threats in a particularly impactful way, 2) measures that validate that these controls are operating as intended and 3) capabilities that automate (1) and (2). All three of these categories will be important to consider moving forward, as business profile, attack surface complexity, and related threats change. This article discusses the elements of a good cybersecurity program, resources you can use, and how to determine the controls that will matter most for your own company. Continued here