Future of Derby City Council leader Baggy Shanker to be decided at extraordinary meeting next week A new leader could be elected if the vote of no confidence is carried but the press and public may be excluded from hearing the debate ... 06/10/2024 - 7:04 pm | View Link
The Southern Baptists are meeting in Indianapolis. Here’s why it matters. More than 11,000 church members are expected to gather in Indianapolis for one of the largest, most influential church meetings of the year. 06/10/2024 - 9:12 am | View Link
Looming Fed Meeting, Inflation Data May Lead To Choppy Trading On Wall Street The major U.S. index futures are currently pointing to a roughly flat open on Monday, with stocks likely to extend the lackluster ... 06/10/2024 - 2:05 am | View Link
Scottie Scheffler is relentless, Rory McIlroy gives update on PGA Tour-PIF meeting and more from Saturday at 2024 Memorial Tournament It’s getting to the point where we don’t even need to watch these tournaments anymore. Once again, world No. 1 Scottie Scheffler leads the way after 54 holes of the 2024 Memorial Tournament at ... 06/9/2024 - 10:22 am | View Link
3 home equity moves to make before the June Fed meeting (and 2 to avoid) The Federal Reserve's next meeting - and their announcement on the future of interest rates - is just days away. Set for June 11 and June 12, the Fed uses these meetings as a venue to discuss monetary ... 06/7/2024 - 4:10 am | View Link
How to run effective meetings | McKinsey Here are five ways to achieve optimal balance in allocating time: Have a ‘time leadership’ budget—and a process for allocating it. When adding a project or initiative, companies should analyze how much leadership attention, guidance, and intervention each will need. 06/5/2024 - 9:22 pm | View Website
8 Tips to Lead Meetings In The Most Effective Way Here are 8 tips to lead a meeting effectively. 1. Lead meetings in a positive way. To get everyone in the room in a positive mindset and energised for the meeting, a great starting point is to get everyone in the room to share something they’ve made progress on or are excited about. If you want to lead meetings effectively go first and set ... 06/4/2024 - 8:40 pm | View Website
How to Lead Better Virtual Meetings Leading productive meetings is an essential skill for first-time managers, especially while managing a remote or hybrid team. If you find yourself in the situation, here are some strategies... 06/4/2024 - 6:31 pm | View Website
How to Hold Leadership Team Meetings Leadership team meetings bring together senior leadership and management in a regularly scheduled meeting, for sharing information, ideas, issues, and perspectives. 06/4/2024 - 11:29 am | View Website
Prepare for Team Meetings: 5 Keys to Building Impactful Agendas 1. Know Why You’re Meeting. Meetings must have a purpose and a desired outcome. Before you begin creating an agenda, figure out if you need to meet by asking why. Do you need to solve a problem, make a decision, or do you just want to check in with a direct report? 06/3/2024 - 1:36 am | View Website
More than 80 researchers from a dozen-plus institutions recently worked together to study an ‘artificial meteor’ as it reentered Earth’s atmosphere.
Earth is constantly bombarded by fragments of rock and ice, also known as meteoroids, from outer space. Most of the meteoroids are as tiny as grains of sand and small pebbles, and they completely burn up high in the atmosphere.
We need to know if ocean-based technologies to reduce carbon dioxide and climate risk are viable, safe, and scalable.
Deep below the ocean surface, the light fades into a twilight zone where whales and fish migrate and dead algae and zooplankton rain down from above. This is the heart of the ocean’s carbon pump, part of the natural ocean processes that capture about a third of all human-produced carbon dioxide and sink it into the deep sea, where it remains for hundreds of years.
As temperatures increase, workers who spend time in hot environments—like restaurant kitchens—are demanding new protections to help keep cool.
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Extremes in confidence and caution can affect decision-making, team performance, and overall leadership effectiveness, this executive coach says.
Leadership requires a delicate balance between confidence and caution. Both are needed, and leaders must be able to move between them. Yet there are leaders whose default is the extremes. Some leaders always want to be right and on the other side of the spectrum; others are always trying to avoid being wrong at all costs.
With sex robots being coded with AI-response technology, and virtual reality allowing users to see their AI companions up close and personal, we’re inching closer to Stepford territory.
When OpenAI launched the voice assistant ChatGPT-4o in May, users quickly noticed some eerie similarities to the 2013 Spike Jonze film Her. Scarlett Johansson, who voiced the film’s AI assistant, Samantha, even called out the company for producing a voice so indistinguishable from her own.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Singapore Airlines said Tuesday it has offered compensation to passengers of a flight that hit extreme turbulence last month, in a rare case that killed one passenger and injured dozens.
The Being 777 jet, carrying 211 passengers and 18 crew from London to Singapore, ran into sudden turbulence over the Irrawaddy basin on May 20, hurling people and items around the cabin.