Hi, Welcome Welcome back By James Scouller January 12, 2024 My younger executive coaching clients usually know nothing about the Apollo 13 rescue. Older clients know of it, but few know the details. Yet the story offers us fresh insights into what it takes to build high-performing teams. The BBC radio series, 13 Minutes … Continue reading What leaders can learn from the Apollo 13 rescue
By The Conversation January 12, 2024 Having a child is bad for a woman’s earnings. This is not only in the immediate period after the birth, but across her lifetime—as shown in research by recent economics Nobel prize-winner Claudia Goldin. On the other hand, men who become fathers are perceived as self-reliant and decisive. And they are often … Continue reading Mothers are more likely to work worse jobs—while fathers thrive in careers
By Mark Wilson January 12, 2024 Apple’s Vision Pro launches in February, but don’t expect to order the $3,500 headset like a typical iPhone or iMac. Unlike these more typical one-size-fits-all products, the Vision Pro’s headband and lightseal are being produced in different sizes that need to be fit to your face. But Apple … Continue reading Apple is fitting users to Vision Pro in a brilliant way
Could distributed, open source AI tools be competitive with the likes of ChatGPT? Marcus Graichen thinks so. Kim Davis on January 12, 2024 Everyone is talking about AI, but what does the future hold? In a series of interviews we examine unexpected perspectives on the space. Marcus Graichen, developer and product architect, believes that decentralized … Continue reading Marcus Graichen: Looking forward with AI
By Michael Grothaus January 12, 2024 Just two weeks into the new year, it’s already been a hard time for the tech sector. Any hopes that the layoffs that began in 2022 and accelerated in 2023 would begin to subside have yet to be realized as more major companies joined other big players, including … Continue reading Tech layoffs 2024: Discord, Google, Audible, and others add to bad start for the year
By Rodney Williams January 12, 2024 Sam Bankman Fried, former founder and CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, was found guilty of wire fraud, conspiracy, and stealing as much as $10 billion in customer money. Elizabeth Holmes, founder of Theranos, is serving an 11-year sentence for fraud and conspiracy over false claims she made to … Continue reading Op-ed: Why do VCs fund founders like Sam Bankman-Fried and Elizabeth Holmes but not Black entrepreneurs?
By The Conversation January 12, 2024 After 13-year-old Willis Gibson became the first human to beat the original Nintendo version of Tetris, he dedicated his special win to his father, who died in December 2023. The Oklahoma teen beat the game by defeating level after level until he reached the “kill screen”—that is, the … Continue reading What the world’s most impressive feats of gaming can teach nongamers about achievement
Google ML Needs A ‘Learning Phase’ Reboot by Laurie Sullivan , Staff Writer @lauriesullivan, January 12, 2024 It took a highly experienced search team working for two weeks to develop a workaround for a multi-location Google Ads campaign because the company’s machine learning (ML) algorithms would not cooperate. Tim Halloran, director of operations at Aimclear, tried … Continue reading Google ML Needs A ‘Learning Phase’ Reboot
Here’s how marketers will improve email strategies this year to deliver value and help manage the changing privacy landscape. Chris Wood on January 11, 2024 When done right, email is an effective, low-cost channel that speaks directly to the customer. In 2024, this channel will grow in importance as marketers deal with the deprecation of … Continue reading 2024 Predictions: Email captures marketers’ attention
By Nicole Gull McElroy Bracken Darrell likes starting over. “This idea that you restart every day—that’s how I feel about everything,” he says. “You have a chance to reinvent things.” It’s a mantra he’s intimately familiar with. Six months ago, Darrell became the new president and CEO of VF Corp., which owns brands including … Continue reading Bracken Darrell reimagined some of the world’s biggest brands. Now he has plans to do it again
