Mad in America

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Editor’s note: This is a copy of a letter that Ed Pigott and Jay Amsterdam sent to Ned Kalin, M.D., editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Psychiatry. Ned H. Kalin, M.D. Editor-in-Chief The American Journal of Psychiatry Dear Dr. Kalin, Dr. Jay Amsterdam and I are writing this Open Letter to call for the retraction of the five STAR*D articles published in the American Journal of Psychiatry (AJP) because the main findings of these articles are not accurate. 1-5 We are the primary invest

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McKensey

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Farmers are increasingly prioritizing productivity. A shift toward operations-focused solutions underscores a broader trend in agriculture, where efficiency and sustainability are becoming paramount.

Prioritization 133

Prioritization 133

Workplace Insight

OCTOBER 16, 2024

A new report from the British Council for Offices (BCO) argues that if employers want their staff to ‘return to office’, they need to approach the workplace in the same way they would their customers by creating spaces that offer experiences workers actively seek out. The report, titled Towards Experience Utopia , claims to serve as a comprehensive guide for creating optimal working environments that integrate the best aspects of both remote and in-office work.

Flexibility 118

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McKensey

OCTOBER 16, 2024

With pandemic-related volatility subsiding, the strategies separating industry leaders from their peers are coming into focus.

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Pharmaceutical 133

Office Space

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Takeaways from the OfficeSpace Fall Summit As we’ve seen in recent headlines, large organizations, specifically those in the business services and financial sectors, are moving towards full-time in-office. The problem? Employees are all but rejecting these mandates, with 77% of the youngest workforce cohorts—millennials and Gen Z—saying they would seek new employment if asked to return to the office full time.

Real Estate 130

Real Estate Flexibility Flexibility Government 130

Wellable

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Discover effective BMI alternatives including body roundness index, waist-to-hip ratio, body fat scales, and more for a more accurate health evaluation. The post 7 Alternatives To The Body Mass Index (BMI) appeared first on Wellable.

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AdminDroid

OCTOBER 16, 2024

On Day 16 of Cybersecurity Awareness month, let’s learn to change default calendar permissions in Microsoft 365 for improved security. Stay tuned for upcoming blogs in Microsoft 365 cybersecurity blog series.  In today’s remote work environment, sharing calendars has become more than just a productivity boost—it’s also a critical part of organizational security.

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Work Life

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Throughout the course of your career, there will be times when you need to ask for an introduction–even when you don’t want to. Whether you’re a new entrepreneur looking for an “in” with investors or just seeking a career change , you’ll need to tap your network for referrals, connections, and opportunities to chat. Needless to say, making these requests can feel awkward–but it doesn’t have to.

Retail 98

Retail Networking Problem-Solving Purchasing 98

Office Snapshots

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Prevolv, a commercial furniture dealer specializing in creating smart and innovative workspaces, needed a refreshed showroom to showcase their wide range of products. As a company that’s core mission involves enhancing work environments to promote productivity, well-being, and a positive work culture, it was crucial for their showroom to mirror their mission.

Manufacturing 96

Manufacturing Construction Creativity Promotion 96

Work Life

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Despite the rise of social media, instant messaging, and all manner of apps, reports of email’s death have been greatly exaggerated. “For most organizations, it’s the communication nervous system,” says business writer and communications consultant, Natalie Canavor, author of Business Writing for Dummies. And, yet, that doesn’t mean we know how to use it well.

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Office Snapshots

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Oktra collaborated with Plus X Innovation to launch their latest innovation hub at The Future Works in Slough. Since their inception in Brighton in 2020, Plus X Innovation has been redefining what coworking spaces mean. Not just places to work, but hubs where creativity, prototyping, and collaboration foster businesses driving positive impacts. The Slough innovation hub encapsulates this ethos in its design, offering over 24,000 sq ft of dynamic space equipped with state-of-the-art specialist fa

Equipment 87

Equipment Catering Creativity 87

Work Life

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In recent years, being innovative is not enough—you must now innovate at speed. For example, digitalization and developments in artificial intelligence and data analytics require constant changes to companies’ business models. New entrants—either international firms or smaller and much nimbler startups—require quick competitive reactions. Rapidly changing consumer preferences for different purchasing channels (such as self-service on a computer or mobile phone or an online chat) or product and s

Banking 98

Banking Purchasing Computer Software 98

Office Snapshots

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Connectivity and Flow The Building’s unique design brings people together with it’s dual floors, air village environments and open glazed canopies. Thus this design emulates that, with pathways of travel and connection, transition zones, social hubs & cohesiveness. Using light, mirrors and sculptural elements, this design enhances the working culture, showing openness and bringing people together.

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Work Life

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Welcome to Pressing Questions , Fast Company ’s work-life advice column. Every week, deputy editor Kathleen Davis, host of The New Way We Work podcast, will answer the biggest and most pressing workplace questions. Q: Should I DM the CEO of a company to get a job? A: No. Ok, probably not. Some career counselors have given the advice recently that in order to get past crowded recruiter inboxes, job candidates should DM the CEO or others in the C-suite directly.

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Spiceworks

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Demonstrating a return on investment for security spending can be difficult. The cost of a breach is often cited to demonstrate spending on technology, personnel, or services. However, this doesn't always articulate the best business case for the budget, shares Andy Collins, CISM, CIPP/E. The post Maximizing Return on Investment with Your Security Budget appeared first on Spiceworks Inc.

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Work Life

OCTOBER 16, 2024

From board meetings, business pitches, and job interviews, all the way to presidential debates: Tough questions are inevitable. To avoid the stumble, the deer in the headlights moment, or the unintended response that could squash your chances to win, study up on these techniques. They’ll help you respond to questions you don’t want to answer in different situations: When you don’t know the answer to the question The first step is to say what you do know.

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Workplace Insight

OCTOBER 16, 2024

CEOs face sleepwalking into reputational disaster through a concerning over-confidence which masks inadequate crisis planning to mitigate modern day risks, according to a new report [registration] from PHA Group. The survey questioned 150 CEOs across the UK’s £240bn professional services sector on confidence and planning in navigating business critical issues.

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Finance Insurance Consulting Communication 52

Work Life

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Is your energy flagging as the workday wears on? By 2 p.m. you’re moving through your tasks in slow motion, your attention is flagging in meetings, and the effort to focus is more than you can summon. When we feel exhausted, we tend to feel less drive to complete tasks or achieve goals. Our brains play a role in our emotions and according to studies by Umeå University , when we’re exhausted, we regulate our cortisol levels less effectively, causing increased stress.

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Success

OCTOBER 16, 2024

At Harvard University’s commencement ceremony this year, humanist chaplain Greg Epstein gave a blessing that was not religious in nature. “Take a deep breath, not because you earned it,” said Epstein. “You never have to earn breath. You deserve it because you are human.” Epstein’s book, Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World’s Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a Reformation (MIT Press, October 2024) delivers a powerful argument for our collective indulgence in this fai

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Work Life

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Some people have the gift of gab and can talk to anyone about anything. And some people struggle to make small talk. What separates the two isn’t knowing what to talk about; it’s polishing up your communication skills so you can keep a good conversation going. “Good conversations require a give and take, just like keeping a ball in the air during a game of catch,” says Anne Green, president and CEO of CooperKatz & Company , a communications and media-training firm with clients that include R

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Communication Networking Learning Training 76

Success

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Britney Wittes was just 10 years old when she landed her first modeling gig. From there, her career took off almost overnight: She began booking job after job, working with top brands like Kohl’s, American Girl, Walgreens and Procter & Gamble, among others. But around the time she hit puberty, the calls started to slow down. Wittes had stopped growing and stood just 5 feet, 3 inches tall—noticeably shorter than the typical 5-foot-7-inch baseline for female models.

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Promotion Interviewing Learning 92

Work Life

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Whether it’s a new technology , a foreign language, or an advanced skill, staying competitive often means learning new things. Being a quick learner can give you an even greater edge. And the good news is that there are ways you can ‘hack’ your brain to accomplish that. Here are eleven methods that you can try together or on their own: 1. TEACH SOMEONE ELSE (OR JUST PRETEND TO) If you imagine that you’ll need to teach someone else the material or task you are trying to grasp, you can speed up yo

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Learning Multitasking Computer Training 76

Workplace Insight

OCTOBER 16, 2024

According to an oft-cited study by psychologists at Princeton, we more or less make our minds about other people within one tenth of a second of meeting them. Experience suggests first impressions are often wrong, or at least incomplete, but at least we can correct ourselves. According to a new study in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin , many people says that it’s even harder to form an accurate impression of someone they meet through a screen.

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Work Life

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Think of all those books you couldn’t wait to read, but never actually finished; the projects you giddily started that petered to stagnation; the ideas that never moved into actual conception. Not everything is meant to be finished, but many of us have a boatload of projects, books, emails, and to-dos that have been relegated to a kind of purgatory of incompletion.

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Success

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Picture this: You wake up one morning, reach for your smartphone to check your bank balance, and poof! Your life savings have vanished into the digital ether. Welcome to the brave new world of financial technology (fintech), where groundbreaking innovation and hair-raising risk walk hand in hand down the information superhighway. In recent years, fintech has transformed the banking sector, offering innovative solutions for managing money.

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Banking Finance Insurance Security 85

Work Life

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Are you jumping from meeting to meeting working smarter, not harder, while circling the wagons with your team so they know they should always be closing ? Or at the end of the day, are you just going through the motions to hit the ground running to deliver maximum customer value? These business clichés are a dime a dozen. While some succinctly convey valuable insight, others give your team advice that is objectively proven bad for your firm.

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Software Food Reporting 75

Productivityist

OCTOBER 16, 2024

In this episode of A Productive Conversation , I’m joined by Patrick McAndrew , founder and CEO of HARA, an exclusive membership community designed for entrepreneurs and leaders seeking to elevate their lives and align their personal and professional paths. Patrick has a unique blend of experience, from managing restaurants to advising corporate giants like Morgan Stanley, and he brings deep insight into how we can reclaim attention and cultivate intention in a tech-driven world.

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Learning 52

Work Life

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Most people will have to work with a chronic complainer or two in their professional lives, whether it’s a dismal coworker or complaining boss. But those who veer from negative to toxic could actually be costing an organization money , and productivity. Businesses also run the risk of complaints becoming contagious. “People see it and they’re brought down by it too, or they’re saying, ‘Gee, this is an organization that tolerates this kind of thing, I may as well start complaining, too,’” says Ro

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Success

OCTOBER 16, 2024

As with past election years, 2024 has thus far been full of promises and threats from both sides of the political aisle. Taxes are always a common topic but have recently proven to be especially concerning as conversations arise about capital gains and estate tax changes. Regardless of who wins the presidency in November, a tax strategy is a key element of planning your estate for your loved ones.

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Real Estate Security Healthcare Controlling 86

Work Life

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The average American office worker spends 37% of their day at work in meetings. Worse, they often report that their meetings don’t use their time well. “The meeting-industrial complex has grown to the point that communications has eclipsed creativity as the central skill of modern work,” writes Derek Thompson in an article for The Atlantic. “The typical meeting is a leaky time suck, absorbing people’s attention in a way that cannot be fully measured by simply counting up the total number of hour

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Prioritization Creativity Planning Reporting 75

Work Life

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Whether you’re in full search mode or simply keeping your options open, finding your next role can be a job in and of itself. If you’re busy in your current position, it’s easy to put outreach efforts on the back burner. But in today’s changing job market , it’s smart to carve out time to look for opportunities and network. “The average person who’s doing a job search is updating their résumé and looking on all the job boards, trying to see when companies have openings,” says career coach

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Work Life

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Just how much of a setback was the COVID-19 pandemic for U.S. working women ? Although women who lost or left their jobs at the height of the crisis have largely returned to the workforce , a recent finding points to the price many paid for stepping back: In 2023, the gender wage gap between men and women working full-time widened year-over-year for the first time in 20 years, according to an annual report from the U.S.

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Work Life

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance infamously said in 2021 that the Democratic Party is run by “a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices they’ve made”—and do not have a “ direct stake ” in the future of the United States. Three years later, after Vance’s selection as Trump’s vice presidential pick , these comments resurfaced and quickly became a cultural touchstone.

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Work Life

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Ever since he was chosen as Donald Trump ’s running mate back in July, U.S. Sen. JD Vance , a Republican from Ohio, has come under a level of scrutiny typical for a vice presidential candidate, including for some of his eyebrow-raising public statements made in the past or during the campaign. One line of critique has persisted through the news cycles: that his lack of political experience may make Vance less qualified than others, including his opponent, Gov.

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